Articles, Essays, and Other Writing by Mark Twain Scholar Shelley Fisher Fishkin

A Category Mistake: Misrecognizing the Function of Black Dialect in the Work of a White Writer (Society for US Intellectual History, S-USIH blog, March 16, 2026)

Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb (January 9, 2026)

On Jim, The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s Comrade: A Conversation with Shelley Fisher Fishkin & Lydia Burleson(Arcade, January 1, 2026)

Mark Twain’s Adventures at Yale (Yale Alumni Magazine, Nov/Dec 2025)

Reader, suppose you were an idiot…Shelley Fisher Fishkin on what Mark Twain would think of today's political predicaments (Boundless Magazine (UK), May 9, 2025)

A Tactical Weapon in the Battle to Teach the History of Racism in American Classrooms(Yale University Press, April 16, 2025)

Mark Twain on ‘idiot’ politicians and our current predicament(San Francisco Chronicle, April 15, 2025 )

Perspectives for Black History Month (Yale University Press, February 13, 2025)

Unlearning Racism: What Roles Can Works by Mark Twain Play in an Anti-Racist Pedagogy?(Mark Twain Studies, 2023)

Special Forum: Global Huck - Mapping the Cultural Work of Translations of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2021)

Mark Twain’s Inconvenient Truths(Stanford Magazine, November/December 2007)

Race and the Politics of Memory: Mark Twain and Paul Laurence Dunbar. (Journal of American Studies, 2006)

Looking Over Mark Twain’s Shoulder as He Writes: Stanford Students read the Huck Finn Manuscript. (Mark Twain Annual, 2005)

Mark Twain and the Jews (Arizona Quarterly, 2005)

Interrogating Whitness, Complicating Blackness: Remapping American Culture (American Quarterly, 1995)

False Starts, Fragments and Fumbles: Mark Twain’s Unpublished Writings on Race (Essays in Arts and Sciences, 1991)