Martha Cutter
Professor & Director/English
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Scholarly Contributions
100 Scholarly Contributions
“Transplanting and Transforming Slavery: Spectacle, Visuality, and Power in Cinematic Neo-Slave Narratives,” MELUS Conference, Las Vegas, May 2018.
2018
Research Type: Poster/Presentation
“Between Word and Image: Telling the Graphic Story of US Slavery in Abolitionist Political Cartoons"
2019
Research Type: Book Chapter
Teaching Chesnutt’s Non-Racial Passing Short Fiction: The Value of Not Judging a Book by Its Cover,” American Literature Association Conference, Boston, May 25, 2019.
2019
Research Type: Poster/Presentation
Slavery in US Visual Culture and History--Lecture to Stonington Historical Society
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
Interviewed in “Slavery cost him his family. That’s when Henry 'Box' Brown mailed himself to freedom,” by Sydney Trent (one of two scholars), The Washington Post, Dec 30, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/12/28/slavery-cost-him-his-family-thats-when-henry-box-brown-mailed-himself-freedom/
2019
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
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
“I Now Pronounce You Man and White: Racial Passing and Gender in Charles Chesnutt’s Fiction,” American Literary Realism (Spring 2020, Vol. 52, No. 3): 190-210.
2020
Research Type: Journal Article
“Performing Fugitivity: Henry Box Brown on the Nineteenth-Century British Stage.”
2020
Research Type: Journal Article
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
“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
“Cora in the Museum: Intersectional Oppression and the Politics of Resistant Solidarity in Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad,” (Conference Chair and Presenter), MLA Conference, Seattle, January 2020.
2020
Research Type: Poster/Presentation
“Embodied Empathy: Visual Reading and the Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Movement,” MLA Conference, Seattle, January 2020.
2020
Research Type: Poster/Presentation
Live Radio Interview, January 22, 2020, with Julie Rose. “Boxed Slave.” Top of the Mind. BYU Radio.http://www.byuradio.org/episode/bd4d4892-6892-4728-b14e-ecb7e4a7f75b/top-of-mind-with-julie-rose-citizens-united-boxed-slave-living-concrete?playhead=2375&autoplay=true
2020
Research Type: Poster/Presentation