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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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