Martha Cutter

Professor

Professor of English and Africana Studies. Storrs.
Specialties: American literature, 1865-present; ethnic American literature; African American iterature; racial passing; slavery and abolition; visual culture; American studies.

Current Research: Published books: The Illustrated Slave: Empathy, Graphic Narrative, and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1800-1852  (University Press of Georgia Press, 2017); Lost and Found in Translation: Contemporary Ethnic American Writing and Politics of Language Diversity (North Carolina Press, 2005); Unruly Tongue: Identity and Voice in American Women’s Writing, 1850-1930(University Press of Mississippi, 1998).

See Martha J. Cutter’s Faculty Bookshelf

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