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Shelley Fisher Fishkin (born May 9, 1950) is the Joseph S. Atha Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English at Stanford University. Fishkin received her B.A. and M.Phil. in English, and her Ph.D. in American Studies, all from
Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...
. Before teaching at
Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
, she served as director of the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale University and professor of American Studies at the
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. Fishkin served as the president of the
American Studies Association The American Studies Association (ASA) is a scholarly organization founded in 1951. It is the oldest scholarly organization devoted to the interdisciplinary study of U.S. culture and history. The ASA works to promote meaningful dialogue about t ...
(2004-2005), and the president of Mark Twain Circle of America (1998-2000). She was also the co-founder of the Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society and a founding editor of the ''Journal of Transnational American Studies''. A specialist in Mark Twain, Fishkin was awarded the John S. Tuckey award “for lifetime achievements and contributions to Mark Twain Studies" at the International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies in 2017. In honor of her work in transnational American Studies, the American Studies Association named its annual prize for best publication in transnational American Studies the Shelley Fisher Fishkin Prize. Fishkin is the author, editor or co-editor of 48 books and has published over 150 articles, essays, columns, and reviews. Fishkin rediscovered Mark Twain's 1898 play "Is He Dead?" in the archives of the Mark Twain Papers at the Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley and published an edition of it in 2003. She was a producer of the play on Broadway, where it debuted in 2007, adapted by
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and directed by
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. She is the Director of Stanford's American Studies Program and Co-Director (with Gordon Chang) of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford University. In 2019, on the 150th anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad, Fishkin and Chang published a co-edited volume ''The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad'' (2019).


Selected works

* ''From Fact to Fiction: Journalism and Imaginative Writing in America'' (Johns Hopkins, 1985) * ''Was Huck Black? Mark Twain and African-American Voices'' (Oxford, 1993) * ''Lighting Out for the Territory: Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture'' (Oxford, 1997) * ''Feminist Engagements: Forays Into American Literature and Culture'' (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2009) * ''Writing America: Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee'' (Rutgers University Press, 2015) * co-author, ''Zhi Lin: In Search of the Lost History of Chinese Migrants and the Transcontinental Railroads.'' (Tacoma Art Museum/University of Washington Press, 2017) * editor, 29-volume ''Oxford Mark Twain'' (Oxford, 1996; Paperback reprint edition, 2009) * editor, ''Oxford Historical Guide to Mark Twain'' (Oxford, 2002) * editor, '' "Is He Dead? " A New Comedy by Mark Twain'' (University of California, 2003) * editor, ''Mark Twain's Book of Animals'' (University of California Press, 2009) * editor, ''The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on his Life and Work'' (Library of America, 2010) * editor, ''《为何与如何:中国人为何出国与如何进入美国》'' (1871) ''Why and How the Chinese Emigrate, and the means they adopt for the purpose of reaching America by Russell Conwell'' (1871). Translated by YAO Ting §šå©·(Chinese Overseas Publishing House, 2019) * co-editor, ''Listening to Silences: New Essays in Feminist Criticism'' (Oxford, 1994) * co-editor, ''People of the Book: Thirty Scholars Reflect on Their Jewish Identity'' (Wisconsin, 1996) * co-editor, ''The Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America'' (M.E. Sharpe, 1997) * co-editor, ''Mark Twain at the Turn of the Century, 1890-1910'' (Arizona Quarterly, 2005) * co-editor, ''Sport of the Gods' and Other Essential Writing'' by Paul 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 Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad'' (Stanford University Press, 2019) *co-editor, "Race and American Culture" - Oxford University Press Book Series (with Arnold Rampersad)(1993-2003)


Selected awards and honors

* Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Research Book Award, National Journalism Scholarship Society (for ''From Fact to Fiction''), 1986 * Choice "Outstanding Academic Title" (for ''Was Huck Black? Mark Twain and African American Voices'' and ''Feminist Engagements: Forays into American Literature and Culture''), 1993, 2009 * Harry H. Ransom Teaching Excellence Award, University Of Texas College Of Liberal Arts, 2000 * Lifetime Achievement Award in Literature, town of Westport, Connecticut, 2002 * President,
American Studies Association The American Studies Association (ASA) is a scholarly organization founded in 1951. It is the oldest scholarly organization devoted to the interdisciplinary study of U.S. culture and history. The ASA works to promote meaningful dialogue about t ...
, 2004-2005 * runner-up for the best book award in the general nonfiction category, London Book Festival, (for ''Writing America'') 2015 * John S. Tuckey Award for lifetime achievements and contributions to Mark Twain Studies, 2017


References

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