Martha Cutter
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The Child’s Illustrated Talking Book: Abigail Mott’s Abridgment of Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative for African American Children
2017
Research Type: Book

The Illustrated Slave: Graphic Narrative and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1820-1852
2017
Research Type: Book

The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown (forthcoming, University of Pennsylvania Press, April 2022). Nominee for the NEMLA (Northeast MLA) book prize, 2021-2022.
2022
Research Type: Book

The Persistence of Cinematic Representation of Slavery and Slave Torture in Contemporary U.S. Film
2014
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

The Persistence of Cinematic Representation of Slavery and Slave Torture in Contemporary U.S. Film.
2015
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

Translating Across the Borders: Sui Sin Far and Other Interethnic Subjects
2015
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

Visual Insubordination within early African American Antislavery Portraiture and Illustrated Books
2021
Martha J. Cutter
Research Type: Book Chapter

What’s New in Journal and Book Publishing: Advice from Editors,” MELUS Conference, April 5, 2019, New Orleans. Panel Chair and Speaker. (Cancelled due to Covid-19).
2020
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

When Black Lives Really Do Matter: Subverting Medical Apartheid through African-Diasporic Healing Rituals in Toni Morrison’s Fiction.”
2021
Research Type: Journal Article

White versus black justice f
2013
Research Type: Other Scholarly Work

Why Near-White Women Can’t Pass: An Intersectional Analysis of Gender Roles in Charles Chesnutt’s Fiction
2013
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

Why Passing is (Still) Not Passé after 250 Years: Sources from the Past and Present
2018
Research Type: Book

Will the ‘Real’ Henry Box Brown Please Stand Up?
2014
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

“A Lost Voice of Fugitivity: Henry Box Brown’s Plays of Auto-Impersonation on the British Stage,” MLA International Conference, Lisbon, July 25, 2019.
2019
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

“A Mighty Power: Print, Photography, and the Nineteenth-Century African American Subject,” 2019 Black New England Conference, Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, NH, October 26, 2019.
2019
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

“A Tale for the Time Being and the Trope of Translation: Ruth Ozeki’s Hacking of The Woman Warrior,”
2017
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

“Between Word and Image: Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Political Cartoons,” American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, CA, May 27, 2016.
2016
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

“Between Word and Image: Telling the Graphic Story of US Slavery in Abolitionist Political Cartoons"
2019
Research Type: Book Chapter

“Border Crossings in Nella Larsen’s Writings”
2017
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

“Capitalism, Patriarchy, Racial Passing, and the ‘Self-Made’ Man in Charles Chesnutt’s Fiction: An Intersectional Analysis of Gender Roles in The House Behind the Cedars and Mandy Oxendine
2012
Research Type: Poster/Presentation