SHORT STORIES                      

Topic (need actual titles)

Glass, Ernestine Pickens

Clark Atlanta University

Teaching Chesnutt’s “The Bouquet”

Harding, Jennifer Riddle

Washington & Jefferson College

Women in Chesnutt’s Short Fiction 

Ingle, Sarah

Chesnutt’s Gothic Double: Teaching Chesnutt as an American Gothic Writer (“The Goophered Grapevine”)

Miller, R. Baxter

University of Georgia

Teaching “Wife of His Youth” at a Major State Research University

Wagner-McCoy, Sarah

Reed College

No title yet (Chesnutt’s Journals & “Aunt Mimy’s Son ” & “Dumb Witness”) – why are the liberal arts important for Chesnutt and for us?

5 short story essays (5 total)

NOVELS

Adams, Katherine

University of South Carolina

Teaching The Colonel’s Dream

Bauer, Margaret D.

East Carolina University

Fact into Fiction, Fact vs. Fiction: Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition and other Belletristic Writing Inspired by the 1898 Wilmington Coup d’etat (aka Race Riot)

Duquette, Elizabeth

Gettysburg College

Rena among the Realists: Teaching The House Behind the Cedars

Mariano, Trinyan

Florida State University

Teaching Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition

Robbins, Hollis

Peabody Institute, The Johns Hopkins University

The Marrow of Allusion: Scott’s Ivanhoe and Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars

Sawaya, Francesca

University of Oklahoma

Whiteness, Privilege, and The Colonel’s Dream

Morgan, Thomas L.

The University of Dayton

Twaining Twain: Unhinging the Biological from the Cultural in Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition and Paul Laurence Dunbar’s The Fanatics

Freeburg, Chris

Chesnutt and Media Spectacle of Racial Violence Marrow of Tradition and Media

8 novel essays (13 total) 

Dialect

Ziegler, Mary

Georgia State University

Releasing the Linguistic Shackles: Charles W. Chesnutt’s Subliminal Messaging in Verbal with Nonverbal Discourse

Miller, Jeffrey

Gonzaga University

Toward a Usable Dialect

Two dialect essays (15 total)

Theory/Context

Gordon Smith, George

Emory University

“[T]o Remove the Disability of Color”: Teaching Charles W. Chesnutt in the context of the American Eugenics Movement

Koo, Kathryn S.

St. Mary’s College of California

Teaching Chesnutt’s Conjure Woman Through Its Publication History

Laski, Greg

United States Air Force Academy

Charles Chesnutt as Political Theorist; or, Imagination, Democracy, and Social Justice

Yothers, Brian

The University of Texas, El Paso

Chesnutt’s Families: Teaching “The Sheriff’s Children” and The Marrow of Tradition in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands

Sussman, Mark

Hunter College, CUNY

Charles Chesnutt as Cultural Critic

Moody-Turner, Shirley

Pennsylvania State University

Whiteness and the Politics of Folklore in Charles Chesnutt’s The Colonel’s Dream”

Gleason, Bill

Princeton University

Architecture and the Built Environment in the Conjure Stories

Lewis, Janaka

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

“Reading Charles Chesnutt’s Ghosts”

8 theory essays (23 total)