Le groupe de recherche A19 (VALE, Sorbonne Université, et ECHELLES, Université Paris Cité) a le grand plaisir de vous annoncer la tenue du séminaire en ligne «From Jim to James, and Back: The Afterlives of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn».

Le séminaire aura lieu le vendredi 30 janvier 2026 de 17 à 19 heures, en distanciel. Le lien de connexion Zoom est disponible ici.

Matt Seybold (Elmira College): “The Hypercanonical James”

Matt Seybold is Associate Professor of American Literature & Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College, resident scholar at the Center For Mark Twain Studies, and producer of The American Vandal Podcast. He is also co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Literature & Economics (2018) and a 2019 Special Issue of American Literary History. His writing on Twain specifically has been published in American Literary Realism, boundary 2, Cleveland Review of Books, Los Angeles Review of Books, New Territory Magazine, North American Review, Mark Twain Journal, Mark Twain Annual (where he serves on the editorial board) and MarkTwainStudies.org (of which he is the founding editor).

Anne-Laure Tissut (U. Paris Nanterre): “‘You talk funny.’ Everett’s subversive conversation with Twain”

Anne-Laure Tissut is a professor of contemporary American literature at Nanterre University, France, and a member of the CREA research group. She has been chief editor for literature of the French Review of American Studies from 2018 to 2021. She is also a translator (Rae Armantrout, Paul Auster, Percival Everett, Laird Hunt and Jerome Rothenberg, among others), and her research on contemporary American literature, focusing on the reading experience, voice and intermediality, often relates to her translation practice.

Discussion and Q&A

6-7pm: Shelley Fisher Fishkin (Stanford): Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s Comrade (Yale UP, “Black Lives” series, 2025)

Shelley Fisher Fishkin is the Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities, professor of English, and professor (by courtesy) of African and African American Studies at Stanford University. She is the author, editor or co-editor of fifty books, including Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s Comrade, Writing America: Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee and Was Huck Black? Mark Twain and African American Voices, and editor of the twenty-nine-volume Oxford Mark Twain.  She was awarded the Bode-Pearson Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Studies Association and the John Tuckey Lifetime Achievement Award from the Center for Mark Twain Studies. In 2019 American Studies Association established the “Shelley Fisher Fishkin Prize for International scholarship in Transnational American Studies” in her honor.

Response: Delphine Louis-Dimitrov (ICP)

 Q & A