Martha Cutter
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“‘As White as Most White Women’: Racial Passing in Advertisements for Runaway Slaves and the Origins of a Multivalent Term.” American Studies 54.4 (2016): 73-97.
2016
Research Type: Journal Article

“Will the REAL Henry Box Brown Please Stand Up? Performances of Enslavement, Freedom, and Magical Transformation in the Life of Henry Brown
2015
Research Type: Journal Article

“Why Passing is Not Passé,”
2018
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

“When Black Lives Really Do Matter: Repairing and Rewriting Women’s Bodies through African-Diasporic Healing Rituals in Toni Morrison’s Fiction,” MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Conference, Virtual Platform, April 10, 2021.
2021
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

“Visual Insubordination Within Early African American Portraiture and Illustrated Books"
2021
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

“Transplanting and Transforming Slavery: Spectacle, Visuality, and Power in Cinematic Neo-Slave Narratives,” MELUS Conference, Las Vegas, May 2018.
2018
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Research Type: Poster/Presentation

“Transplanting and Transforming Slavery: Spectacle, Visuality, and Power in Cinematic Neo-Slave Narratives"
2018
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

“Translating Across the Borders: Sui Sin Far and Other Interethnic Subjects.
2017
Research Type: Book

“The Novel in a Changing America: Multiculturalism and Other Issues (1970-Present).”
2012
Research Type: Book

“The Illustrated Slave"
2018
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

“The Fugitive Gazes Back: The Visual Performance Work of William and Ellen Craft, Frederick Douglass, and Sojourner Truth,” (In)Visibilizing the Subaltern International Conference, Montpellier, France, June 11-12, 2020 (Cancelled due to Covid-19)
2020
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

“Sui Sin Far and the Southwest Museum: Or, on the Ephemeral Nature of the Multi-Ethnic Archive.”
2012
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

“Skinship: Dialectical Passing Narratives in Hannah Crafts’s The Bondswoman’s Narrative” .
2013
Research Type: Journal Article

“Serial Passing in the 20th and 21st Century: Undermining ‘True Identity?’” NEMLA (Northeast MLA) Conference, Boston, MA, March 5-7, 2020.
2020
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

“Roundtable: Publishing Your Article in MELUS"
2018
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

“Revising Medical Histories in Toni Morrison’s Home,” ALA (American Literature Association) Conference, Boston, MA, July 2021.
2021
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

“Reclaiming Visuality: The Politics of Looking Back in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad,” MELUS Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 23, 2018. (Paper presentation, panel organizer, and panel chair).
2019
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Research Type: Poster/Presentation

“Reading between the Lines: Resistance within the Visual Rhetoric of African American Antislavery Works,”
2017
Martha J Cutter
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

“Re-Visioning Race: Transformations of the Passing Narrative in Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece’s Graphic Novel Incognegro
2012
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

“Re-Visioning Race: Transformations of the Historiography of Passing in Incognegro,
2016
Research Type: Poster/Presentation