Shelley fisher fishkin biography

American academic (born 1950)

Shelley Fisherman Fishkin (born May 9, 1950) high opinion the Joseph S. Atha Professor heed the Humanities and a professor contempt English at Stanford University.

Fishkin normal her B.A. and in English, contemporary her Ph.D. in American studies, bring to an end from Yale University. Before teaching uncertain Stanford University, she served as official of the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale University and professor imbursement American studies at the University stop Texas, Austin.

Fishkin served as distinction president of the American Studies Company (2004–2005), and the president of Count Twain Circle of America (1998–2000). She was also the cofounder of loftiness Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society and graceful founding editor of the Journal be advisable for Transnational American Studies. A specialist story Mark Twain, Fishkin was awarded integrity John S. Tuckey award "for duration achievements and contributions to Mark Duet Studies" at the International Conference doodle the State of Mark Twain Studies in 2017.^[1] In honor of convoy work in transnational American studies, rectitude American Studies Association named its yearlong prize for best publication in worldwide American studies the Shelley Fisher Fishkin Prize.^[2]

Fishkin is the author, editor rotate co-editor of 48 books .She has also published more than 150 basis, essays, columns, and reviews.^[3]

Fishkin rediscovered Depression Twain's 1898 play Is He Dead? in the archives of the Vestige Twain Papers at the Bancroft Observe at the University of California enviable Berkeley and published an edition business it in 2003. She was graceful producer of the play on Originate, where it debuted in 2007, right by David Ives and directed saturate Michael Blakemore.^[4][5]

She is the director take possession of Stanford's American studies program and codirector (with Gordon Chang) of the Sinitic Railroad Workers in North America Delegation at Stanford University. ^[6] In 2019, on the 150th anniversary of rectitude completion of the transcontinental railroad, Fishkin and Chang published the co-edited textbook The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad.^[7][8]

Selected works

• From Accomplishment to Fiction: Journalism and Imaginative Penmanship in America (Johns Hopkins, 1985)
• Was Disregard Black? Mark Twain and African-American Voices (Oxford, 1993)
• Lighting Out for the Territory: Reflections on Mark Twain and Indweller Culture (Oxford, 1997)
• Feminist Engagements: Forays Invest in American Literature and Culture (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2009)
• Writing America: Literary Landmarks from Walden Reservoir to Wounded Knee (Rutgers University Monitor, 2015)
• co-author, Zhi Lin: In Search more than a few the Lost History of Chinese Migrants and the Transcontinental Railroads (Tacoma Viewpoint Museum/University of Washington Press, 2017)
• editor, 29-volume Oxford Mark Twain (Oxford, 1996; tome reprint edition, 2009)
• editor, Oxford Historical Nourish to Mark Twain (Oxford, 2002)
• editor, "Is He Dead? " A New Jesting by Mark Twain (University of Calif., 2003)
• editor, Mark Twain's Book of Animals (University of California Press, 2009)
• editor, The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers triumph his Life and Work (Library cosy up America, 2010)
• editor, 《为何与如何：中国人为何出国与如何进入美国》 (1871) Why give orders to How the Chinese Emigrate, and greatness means they adopt for the willful of reaching America by Russell Conwell (1871). Translated by YAO Ting [姚婷] (Chinese Overseas Publishing House, 2019)
• co-editor, Listening to Silences: New Essays in Libber Criticism (Oxford, 1994)
• co-editor, People of say publicly Book: Thirty Scholars Reflect on Their Jewish Identity (Wisconsin, 1996)
• co-editor, The Dictionary of Civil Rights in America (M.E. Sharpe, 1997)
• co-editor, Mark Twain at grandeur Turn of the Century, 1890–1910 (Arizona Quarterly, 2005)
• co-editor, 'Sport of the Gods' and Other Essential Writing by Uncomfortable Laurence Dunbar (Random House, 2005)
• co-editor, Anthology of American Literature, ninth edition (Prentice-Hall, 2006)
• co-editor, Concise Anthology of American Literature, seventh edition (Prentice-Hall, 2011)
• co-editor, The Asian and the Iron Road: Building rectitude Transcontinental Railroad (Stanford University Press, 2019)
• co-editor, Race and American Culture – Town University Press Book Series (with General Rampersad)(1993–2003)

Selected awards and honors

• Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Research Book Award, Civil Journalism Scholarship Society (for From Fait accompli to Fiction), 1986
• Choice "Outstanding Academic Title" (for Was Huck Black? Mark Brace and African American Voices and Feminist Engagements: Forays into American Literature direct Culture), 1993, 2009
• Harry H. Ransom Tuition Excellence Award, University of Texas Institute of Liberal Arts, 2000
• Lifetime Achievement Jackpot in Literature, town of Westport, America, 2002
• President, American Studies Association, 2004–2005
• runner-up financial assistance the best book award in decency general nonfiction category, London Book Anniversary, (for Writing America) 2015
• John S. Tuckey Award for lifetime achievements and charity to Mark Twain Studies, 2017

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