Dr. Shawn Holliday, associate dean of graduate studies and professor of English at Northwestern Oklahoma State University, recently had an article accepted for publication by the journal “Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South.”

The article is titled “The Importance of Indian Territory to the Ending of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” Holliday’s article is scheduled to appear in the journal’s first issue of 2021.

One peer reviewer stated “the account of social conditions and demographics within Indian Territory is something seldom discussed in Twain studies, a...