Institute Registration Form

Please fill out form and mail or FAX to: Elmira College

Center for Mark Twain Studies One Park Place

Elmira , NY 14901 FAX: 607-735-1756

Please register by Monday, July 20th. After July 20th,

phone first to determine availability. Name: Street Address: City-State-Zip: School: Grade: Work Phone: Home Phone: Email:

Enclose check for $60.00 payable to The Center for Mark Twain Studies. Upon receipt, participants will be sent a copy of all the texts used for the entire two days. If paying by credit, please provide infor-mation below: Name as it appears on the Card: Circle one: Visa Master Card Expiration Date: Card Number:

Three digit code on back of card: NOTE: We are required to provide the three-digit code on the back of your credit card. If you are reluctant to provide this information in writing, please phone to register.

Contact Information:

Jenny Dean, Director SCT-Corning Teacher Center

jdean@gstboces.org (607-739-3581) Dr. Joseph Lemak, Director

Center for Mark Twain Studies jlemak@elmira.edu (607-735-1941)

Trish Cordell, Secretary Center for Mark Twain Studies

pcordell@elmira.edu (607-735-1941)

Overnight reservations may be made at:

Holiday Inn Elmira (607) 734-4211 (Downtown Elmira — near Elmira College)

Holiday Inn Horseheads (607) 739-3681 (Horseheads — near shopping and malls)

If interested in costs for on-campus housing, please let us know.

Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies

and SCT-Corning Teacher Center

2016 Mark Twain Summer Institute for Teachers

MARK TWAIN: MAN OF LETTERS

Tuesday, July 26, 2016 8:30 am - 3:30 pm; Wednesday, July 27 8:30 am - 3:30 pm;

at

Elmira College Gannett-Tripp Library & Quarry Farm

One Park Place Elmira, NY 14901

(607) 735-1941

INSTITUTE SCHEDULE: Tuesday, July 26th AT GANNETT-TRIPP LIBRARY 8:15 - 8:55 Registration and light breakfast 9:00 - 10:00 Letter-Writing in 19th Century American Culture An overview of Twain’s biography through his correspondence with family and friends 10:00 - 10:15 Mid-morning break 10:15 - 11:30 Public vs. Private Correspondent A presentation of selected letters—sent as well as unsent—over the course of Twain’s career, illustrating he stylistic range and tone of his correspondence. 11:30 - 12:30 Luncheon buffet 12:30 - 2:15 Epistolary Devices in Twain’s Fiction This session explores the role of letters in three early stories, “Aurelia’s Unfortunate Young Man (1864), “Goldsmith’s Friend Abroad Again” (1870), and “Sociable Jimmy” (1874) 2:15 - 3:15 Guided Mark Twain Archives and Library Research An opportunity to view and use actual letters from Twain from the Elmira College Mark Twain Archives and the internet for possible use in curriculum. Closing Visit to the Study and historic Cowles Hall

Wednesday, July 27th AT QUARRY FARM 8:15 - 9:00 Arrival at Quarry Farm and light breakfast 9:00 - 9:45 Tour of Quarry Farm 10:00 - 10:15 Mid-morning break 10:15 - 11:55 Letters as a Tool of Seduction and Entrapment in “ The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg” (1899) An examination of a pivotal plot device in one of Twain’s best known shorter works. 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch 1:00 - 2:15 The Diabolical Tourist: Satan Writes Home in “ Letters from the Earth” (1909) Written during the final month’s of Twain’s life, this iconoclastic story remained unpublished until 1962 because Clara Clemens believed it presented a “distorted” view of her father. 2:15 - 2:30 Mid-afternoon break 2:30 - 3:30 Concluding Session/Lesson Planning Teachers are invited to pull together their observations and readings into a lesson or assignment for their students.

Meet our Faculty… Kerry Driscoll is Professor of English at the University of St. Joseph in West Hartford, CT and the current vice president of the Mark Twain Circle of America. She is the recipient of a 2007 faculty research fellowship from the National Endow-ment for the Humanities for a book manuscript in progress, Mark Twain Among the Indians, an examination of the writer’s attitudes toward, and representations of, Native Americans throughout his career. In the summer of 2011, she directed a three-week-long National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Institute for secondary teachers on “Mark Twain and the Culture of Progress.” Ann Ryan is the Kevin G. O’Connell Distinguished Professor of English at Le Moyne College. Her publica-tions include A Due Voci: The Photographs of Rita Hammond, many published essays on Mark Twain and other authors, and Cosmopolitan Twain, co-edited with Joseph McCullough. For seven years, she was editor of the Mark Twain Annual. She has presented at many past Teach-ers’ Institutes in Elmira and also at NEH insti-tutes in Hartford, Connecticut.

ABOUT THE INSTITUTE… “The reason I dread writing letters is because I am so apt to get to slinging wisdom & forget to let up. Thus much precious time is lost.” Mark Twain

Before tweets, texts, video conferencing, and voicemail there were letters. Mark Twain’s America was an age in which letters were both a daily necessity and a vibrant art form. During the 2016 Summer Institute for Teachers, hosted by the Center for Mark Twain Studies, Ann Ryan, and Kerry Driscoll, will explore Twain’s fascination with let-ter writing as a metaphor, as plot device, and as an integral part of his relationship to the world around him. In one of her most famous poems, Emily Dickinson wrote, “Here is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me;” Mark Twain never had that problem. He wrote and received thousands of letters—some funny, some practical, some poignant, and always illuminating. We will draw exam-ples from Twain’s letters to and from friends and family, crit-ics and contemporaries, fans and luminaries. Additionally, we’ll read fictional works in which letters serve an important role, often assaulting the complacency of the community that receives them, including the community of readers. Finally, we’ll invite the teachers who participate to consider the way letters and letter writing may figure in their own work. Please join us for this exciting and informative session at Elmira College and Quarry Farm. Your $60.00 registration fee includes:

two breakfasts and two lunches Mark Twain in Elmira (Second Edition) A compilation of all discussed texts a Center for Mark Twain Studies tote bag.

In order to prepare for discussion, the texts will be mailed to you upon receipt of your registration, or you may arrange to pick them up at Elmira College.