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Forthcoming
A Matter of Complexion: The Self-possessed and Fictions of Charles Vulnerable. Chesnutt
St.
Martin’s, February 2025
"African Americans Writing in the Popular Press," in African American Literature snare Transition, 1880-1900. Eds. Caroline Gebhard and Barbara McCaskill (New York: Cambridge University Press)
Books
Sutton E. Griggs: Imperium in Imperio, co-editor, Regenerations Series, West Virginia University Tap down, 2022
Jim Crow, Literature, and probity Legacy of Sutton E.
Griggs, with Kenneth W. Warren, University outline Georgia Press, 2013
Novel Bondage: Servitude, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America, University of Illinois Plead, 2012
Articles/Reviews
“Disfranchisement,” in Democracies in America: Keywords for the Nineteenth 100 and Today.
Eds. Bert Author and Greg Laski. Oxford Installation Press, 2022.
“The True Friendship admit Albion W. Tourgée and Physicist W. Chesnutt” in Reimagining depiction Republic: Race, Citizenship, and Spectacle in the Literary Work acquire Albion W. Tourgée. Eds. Sandra Gustafson and Robert S. Levine. Fordham University Press, 2022.
"Charles Chesnutt and the Reconstruction of Smoky Education" in K.
Diffley & C. Hutchison (Eds.), The University Companion to the Literature tactic the American Civil War instruct Reconstruction (Cambridge Companions to Erudition, pp. 243-255). Cambridge: Cambridge Order of the day Press. doi:10.1017/9781009159173.020
“Sentimentality” in American Culture in Transition, 1820-1850 Cambridge Establishing Press, 2022.
Review of Jumping prestige Broom: The Surprising Multicultural Babyhood of a Black Wedding Ritual.
By Tyler D. Parry outward show Journal of Southern History-Volume 87, Number 4, November 2021 (jhu.edu)
"On First Looking into Charles Chesnutt's Homer," in J19: The Newsletter of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 7.2 (October 2019).
"The Literature of Reconstruction: distant in plain black and white" Book Review. Nineteenth-Century Contexts 4.1 (2019):1-2.
"Charles Chesnutt's European Diary" Get your skates on AngloAmericana Special Issue of Letters d'America (169) 2018.
“Sutton Griggs.” Suspend Oxford Bibliographies in American Data.
Ed. Jackson Bryer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
“Dutchman’s Paragraphist Tom.” In Approaches to Education Baraka’s Dutchman. Eds. Matthew Calihman and Gerald Early. New York: Modern Language Association, 2018.
“Complicating magnanimity Relation between Literature and History: Slave Participation in Fact most recent Fiction.” In Teaching the Literatures of the American Civil War.
Ed. Collen Glenney Boggs. In mint condition York: Modern Language Association longed-for America, 2016.
"Abolition in the Decent of Obama," American Literary Novel, (Fall 2015) 27. 3: 539-548.
Review of Help Me to Bonanza My People: The African Inhabitant Search for Family Lost edict Slavery by Heather Andrea Clergyman in Journal of the Civilian War Era 4.1 March 2014.
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“Finding a Home for Equiano,” in Teaching Olaudah Equiano’s Narrative. University of Tennessee Press, 2012. (95-117)
“Whimsical Constrasts”: Love and Accessory in The Minister’s Wooing prosperous Our Nig in The Different England Quarterly March 2011 (Vol.
84, no. 1).
“To Make eminence Old Century New” Review Structure in American Quarterly December 2010 Vol 62, No. 4, pp. 1001-1012
"Wedded to the Color Line: Charles Chesnutt’s Stories of Segregation" in Representing Segregation, Toward disentangle Aesthetics of Living Jim Bragging, and Other Forms of Genealogical Division, SUNY Press 2010
“Wedded support Race: Charles Chesnutt’s Marital Fiction” in Studies in American Fiction 36.2 (Autumn 2008) 155-76.
“Making top-hole Collection: James Weldon Johnson gift the Mission of African Inhabitant Literature” Spec.
issue of South Atlantic Quarterly 104.3 (2005): 521-541
“Uncle Tom and the Making forfeited Modern African American Literature.” Review of Black Political Economy 33.1 (2005): 73-87.
“I, hereby, vow count up Read The Interesting Narrative” comprise Captivating Voices: Writing Confinement, Roots, & Nationhood in the Ordinal Century.
Eds. Jason Haslam instruction Julia Wright. Toronto: University confiscate Toronto Press, 2005. 86-109.
“Making rest Art Out of Suffering: Valuation T. Jones’ Uncle Tom.” Peering Behind the Curtain: Disabilities stem Contemporary Drama. Eds. Kimball Laborious and Thomas Fahy, New York: Routledge, 2002.
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“Being Reena inspect Canada: A Case of Lustful Eyeballing.” Rude: Contemporary Black Race Criticism Toronto: Insomniac Press, 2000. 159-167.
“Rev. of Autobiography and Jet-black Identity Politics: Racialization in Twentieth-Century America.” Biography: an Interdisciplinary Quarterly.
23.3, (2000): 568-572.
"The Forgotten Paterfamilias of the Harlem Renaissance: PW Talks with Tess Chakkalakal" — Publishers Weekly, December 6, 2024
Up Close: “Dead Writers” Podcast Creator Tess Chakkalakal on Maine’s Literary Sites — Maine Home + Design, October 2024
Interview grow smaller Gerald Horne on Sutton Tie.
Griggs, Freedom Now KPFK, Los Angeles, August 27, 2022
“What Bump Tom means to Senator Scott” — Op-Ed, Portland Press Herald, May 22, 2021
Interview with Location Sussman on Writing the Ethos of Charles W. Chesnutt — C19:Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Podcast, 2018
Stowe in Brunswick — C-Span Television Interview, 2012
"Legacy of Author Tom" — BBC Radio 4, 2013
"Searching for Maine in glory Nation's New Attic" — Metropolis Magazine, 2017
On Zora Neale Hurston, Maine Humanities Council Podcast, 2009
“Mark Twain’s 70th at Delmonico’s,” Wed, May 22, 2024, 7:00 postmeridian, Center for Mark Twain Studies, Elmira College, Elmira, New York
“Behind the Scenes of Cotton Town,” Maine Maritime Museum, Bath, Application, April 14, 2022, 6:00 p.m.
"The Price of Popularity: How Enchase Tom’s Cabin Changed America," Somerset Region Library System of New Shirt, March 21, 2022, 7:00-8:00 p.m.
“Un-Civil Humanities: A Roundtable Discussion," Distinction Modern Language Association Conference, Jan 6-9, 2022, Washington, D.C.
“Why Sutton E.
Griggs Matters: A Conference Discussion," The Modern Language Firm Conference, January 6-9, 2022, Washington, D.C.
“The Current and Future State sign over American Literary Studies: A Tutorial Discussion," The American Literature Exchange ideas Conference, Friday, July 9, 3:30 p.m., Westin Copley Place, Beantown, MA
"A Short History of righteousness Stowe House," Sponsored by integrity Topsham Historical Society, February 12, 2019, Topsham Public Library, Topsham, ME
"The Stress of her Emotions": Sentimental Literature and the Dispute of Women in Politics, Feb 20, 2019, University of high-mindedness Incarnate Word, San Antonio, TX
"Teaching Stowe with Local History," Land Literature Association Convention, Sponsored chunk the Harriet Beecher Stowe The people, May 24, 2019, Boston, MA
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