The Chesnutt Association is proud to have sponsored panels at the annual meetings of the College Language Association in Memphis, TN (April 10-13, 2024) and of the American Literature Association in Chicago, IL (May 23-26, 2024).

CLA Panel:
Charles Waddell Chesnutt and the Problem of Justice
Chair: Elizabeth J. West, Georgia State University

• “Chesnutt’s Search for Justice: Charles Chesnutt’s Complicated Friendship and Extended Argument with Booker T. Washington,” Bianca Swift and Kenneth M. Price, University of Nebraska Lincoln
• “Exposing Connections: Past Violence and Present Intimidation in Chesnutt’s “The Doll,” Stephanie Browner, The New School
• “A Small But Remarkable Collection’: Books As Inheritance and Aids to Justice in The House Behind The Cedars,” Amina Gautier, Marquette University and University of Miami
• “Charles W. Chesnutt’s Biological Justice: When Insecure Humans Accept Nature’s Genetics,” SallyAnn Ferguson, University of North Carolina, Emerita

ALA Panel:
Overlooked Angles in Chesnutt Scholarship
Chair: Bill Hardwig, University of Tennessee

• “Chesnutt’s Black Networks and an Insurrectionist’s Copy of The Marrow of Tradition,” RJ Boutelle, University of Cincinnati
• “Reading Race Into (and Out Of) a Story: Chesnutt’s ‘Unmarked’ Fiction,” Antje Anderson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• “What’s So Funny? Chesnutt and Humor,” Amina Gautier, Marquette University and University of Miami

A snapshot from the annual business meeting of the Chesnutt Association that followed:

Amina Gautier (University of Miami), Ernestine Pickens Glass (Clark Atlanta University, emerita), and Justin Smith (Randolph-Macon College)