Martha Cutter
Professor & Director/English
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Scholarly Contributions
100 Scholarly Contributions
“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
“In the Wake of Henry Box Brown: Memorializing Slavery,” MELUS Conference, April 5, 2020, New Orleans (Cancelled due to Covid-19).
2020
Research Type: Poster/Presentation
A More Dialogic History: Toni Morrison’s Beloved and A Mercy,” NEMLA (Northeast MLA) Conference, Boston, MA, March 5-7, 2020. Panel Chair and Speaker.
2020
Research Type: Poster/Presentation
Live Radio Interview, Public Radio International, Oct. 9, 2021, on Ellen Craft. https://www.pri.org/file/2021-10-08/london-home-us-abolitionists-receives-blue-plaque.
2021
Research Type: Artistic and Professional Performances
Visual Insubordination within early African American Antislavery Portraiture and Illustrated Books
2021
Research Type: Book Chapter
When Black Lives Really Do Matter: Subverting Medical Apartheid through African-Diasporic Healing Rituals in Toni Morrison’s Fiction.”
2021
Research Type: Journal Article
“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
“Henry Box Brown in Contemporary Visual Art and the Limits of Black Optimism,” NEMLA (NEMLA) Conference, Virtual Platform, March 13, 2021.
2021
Research Type: Poster/Presentation
“Visual Insubordination Within Early African American Portraiture and Illustrated Books"
2021
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
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
Picturing Race: African Americans in US Visual Culture Before the Civil War
2022
Research Type: Book Chapter
“Producing the Meaning of the Geography of Enslavement in the Past and Present,” MLA (Modern Language Association) Conference (January 2022).
2022
Research Type: Poster/Presentation
Revolutionary Multilingualism: Moving Beyond Translation as Trope,” MLA (Modern Language Association) Conference, Washington, DC (January 2022).
2022
Research Type: Poster/Presentation
Between Word and Image: Telling the Graphic Story of US Slavery in Abolitionist Political Cartoons
Research Type: Book
Re-Visioning Race: Transformations of the Passing Narrative in Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece’s Graphic Novel Incognegro
Research Type: Book
“Neo-Passing in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Century and Multi-Ethnic Literature.”
Research Type: Book Chapter
"Slavery, Freedom, and Resistance in the Abolition Movement and the US Visual Imagination.”
Research Type: Book Chapter