Tess Chakkalakal

On leave for the 2011-12 academic year.

Spring 2011

  • Introduction to the Black Novel in the United States (AFRS/ENG 107) SyllabusPDFPDF
  • African American Literature and the Law (AFRS/ENG 326) SyllabusPDFPDF
Phone (207) 721-5150
Title Assistant Professor
Department Africana Studies
2nd Title Assistant Professor
2nd Department ENGLISH
Work Location 213 Adams Hall
E-Mail tchakkal@bowdoin.edu
Tess Chakkalakal

Publications

Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century American, University of Illinois Press, 2011Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America, University of Illinois Press,  2011

“Whimsical Constrasts”: Love and Marriage in The Minister’s Wooing and Our Nig in The New England Quarterly March 2011 (Vol. 84, no. 1).

“To Make an Old Century New” Review Essay in American Quarterly  December 2010 Vol 62, No. 4, pp. 1001-1012

"Wedded to the Color Line: Charles Chesnutt’s Stories of Segregation" in Representing Segregation, Toward an Aesthetics of Living Jim Crow, and Other Forms of Racial Division, SUNY Press 2010

Representing Segregation Toward an Aesthetics of Living Jim Crow, and Other Forms of Racial Division“Wedded to Race: Charles Chesnutt’s Marital Fiction” in Studies in American Fiction 36.2 (Autumn 2008) 155-76.

“Making a Collection: James Weldon Johnson and the Mission of African American Literature” Spec. issue of South Atlantic Quarterly 104.3 (2005): 521-541

“Uncle Tom and the Making of Modern African American Literature.” Review of Black Political Economy 33.1 (2005): 73-87.

“I, hereby, vow to Read The Interesting Narrative” in Captivating Voices: Writing Confinement, Citizenship, & Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century. Eds. Jason Haslam and Julia Wright. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. 86-109.

“Making an Art Out of Suffering: Bill T. Jones’ Uncle Tom.” Peering Behind the Curtain: Disabilities in Contemporary Drama. Eds. Kimball King and Thomas Fahy, New York: Routledge, 2002. 35-46

“Being Reena in Canada: A Case of Reckless Eyeballing.” Rude: Contemporary Black Canadian Criticism Toronto: Insomniac Press, 2000. 159-167.

“Rev. of Autobiography and Black Identity Politics: Racialization in Twentieth-Century America.” Biography: an Interdisciplinary Quarterly. 23.3, (2000): 568-572.

Links

Academic Spotlight: Tracing Lasting, Local Footprints of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'

The Stowe Society

The Critical Edition of of Sutton E. Griggs