Martha Cutter
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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

“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
Martha J Cutter
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

Redrawing the Historical Past: History, Memory, and Multi-Ethnic Graphic Narrative
2018
Cathy Schlund-vials, Martha Cutter
Research Type: Book

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

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

“Crossing Borders: The Many Lives of Henry Box Brown,” Ohio University, Athens, OH, 27 November 2018 https://livestream.com/ohiocas/events/8469908
2018
Martha J. Cutter
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

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

Slavery Stories
2018
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

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

Pudd’nhead Wilson and the One-drop Rule
2018
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

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

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

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

“Nella Larsen’s Passing and the Literary and Legal Context of the Passing Narrative.”
2017
Research Type: Book