Chesnutt scholarship was well represented at this year’s MLA, January 9-12, 2025 in New Orleans at various sessions and a roundtable!
(Also, a reminder that anyone with a proposal for the ALA has until TOMORROW, January 20, 2025 to submit it! Click here for more!)

I. Paper Presentations:

• ‘A Witch Is a Cunjuh Man’: Defining Conjuring, Witchcraft, and the New Woman in Charles Chesnutt’s The Conjure Woman and Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Andy Bainbridge, Tufts
• White Feelings, Bad Feelings: Counternarratives to Racial Domination in Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition, Will Clark, San Francisco State U
• Seeing Double in Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition, Ellen Louis, U of California-Irvine
• Plagiarism, Creative Reuse, and the Color Line: Charles Chesnutt and Harry Stillwell Edwards, Kenneth M. Price, U of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Conspirators, Confidence Men, and Conjurers: Trickery and Short Form in Melville and Chesnutt, Laurena Tsudama, Rutgers U
• Passing for White with Milton’s (In)Visible Influence in Chesnutt’s The House behind the Cedars, Reginald A. Wilburn, Texas Christian U

II. Roundtable

• The Future of Nineteenth-Century Author-Based Societies I
  Stephanie P. Browner, The New School, for the Chesnutt Association