The American Vandal
Episodes
DEEP CUTS BOOK CLUB #1: Mark Twain's "Letter From Santa Claus" with Mark Dawidziak, Penne Restad, & Jana Tigchelaar
18 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode focuses on a letter Mark Twain composed for his three-year-old daughter on Christmas 1875. After actor Mark Dawidziak reads the letter, M...
Good Lord Bird & John Brown in Ethan Hawke's America with Jeffrey Insko & Ashley Rattner
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
James McBride's retelling of John Brown's epochal raid on Harpers Ferry through the eyes of a young black man won the National Book Award in 2013 and ...
Dave Chappelle & Killjoy Comedy with Jalylah Burrell, Bambi Haggins, & Maggie Hennefeld
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
American Humor Studies scholars Jalylah Burrell, Bambi Haggins, and Maggie Hennefeld join host Matt Seybold to discuss the recent work of stand-up com...
Mark Twain, James Redpath, & The Vigilante Origins of American Police
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Concluding the 2020 Trouble Begins Lecture Series, Matt Seybold interposes the early careers of Mark Twain and James Redpath, both of whom, in the yea...
The New Black Gothic & Lovecraft Country with Sheri-Marie Harrison
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Gothic has been, since Mark Twain's time, a popular way for artists to reckon with the life and afterlife of American slavery. But only recently h...
American Humor & Matters of Empire with Judith Yaross Lee
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Coming off the 2020 Quarry Farm Symposium which she organized, Judith Yaross Lee talks with Matt Seybold about her ongoing project, the disciplinary h...
Elmira Correctional Facility & The Prison Fix with Andrea Morrell
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With the backdrop of a large COVID-19 outbreak within its walls, Andrea Morrell talks to Matt Seybold about Elmira Correctional Facility, one of the o...
Mark Twain, The World, & Susan K. Harris
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Susan K. Harris, author of "Mark Twain, The World, & Me: Following the Equator, Then & Now," sits down with Matt Seybold to discuss the project that t...
The Viral Reprinting of Mark Twain's Hawaii Jokes & Mark Twain Meets Dracula
12 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode begins with Todd Nathan Thompson's paper for "The Viral Twain" panel at Virtual C19. Dr. Thompson tracks how Twain's jokes based on his v...
James Redpath, Bleeding Kansas, & The Networks of Disunion
12 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Twain's publicist and booking agent, proprietor of the Boston Lyceum Bureau, started his career as a hardscrabble freelance journalist. He discov...