Martha Cutter
Professor & Director/English
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Scholarly Contributions
100 Scholarly Contributions
“Producing the Meaning of the Geography of Enslavement in the Past and Present,” MLA (Modern Language Association) Conference (January 2022).
2022
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Revolutionary Multilingualism: Moving Beyond Translation as Trope,” MLA (Modern Language Association) Conference, Washington, DC (January 2022).
2022
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
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“Henry Box Brown in Contemporary Visual Art and the Limits of Black Optimism,” NEMLA (NEMLA) Conference, Virtual Platform, March 13, 2021.
2021
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“Visual Insubordination Within Early African American Portraiture and Illustrated Books"
2021
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“Revising Medical Histories in Toni Morrison’s Home,” ALA (American Literature Association) Conference, Boston, MA, July 2021.
2021
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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
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“Serial Passing in the 20th and 21st Century: Undermining ‘True Identity?’” NEMLA (Northeast MLA) Conference, Boston, MA, March 5-7, 2020.
2020
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“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
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“Embodied Empathy: Visual Reading and the Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Movement,” MLA Conference, Seattle, January 2020.
2020
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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
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“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
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“In the Wake of Henry Box Brown: Memorializing Slavery,” MELUS Conference, April 5, 2020, New Orleans (Cancelled due to Covid-19).
2020
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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
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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
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Slavery in US Visual Culture and History--Lecture to Stonington Historical Society
2019
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“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
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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
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“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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