Tess Chakkalakal

Tess Chakkalakal is a professor of Africana Studies and English at Bowdoin College who is known for her work as an American biographer and writer.

Education and career

Chakkalakal has a B.A. from the University of Toronto, and she earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. from York University. As of 2025, she is a professor of Africana Studies and English at Bowdoin College.[1]

She is co-host of Dead Writers: A Show About Great American Authors and Where They Lived.podcasts.[2]

Selected publications

  • Chakkalakal, Tess (2005). ""Uncle Tom" and the Making of a Modern African American Literature". The Review of Black Political Economy. 33 (2): 73–87. doi:10.1007/s12114-005-1017-7. ISSN 0034-6446.
  • Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America (Illinois, 2011) [3]
  • Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs (Georgia, 2013). [4]
  • Imperium in Imperio by Sutton E. Griggs: A Critical Edition (West Virginia Press, 2022).
  • A Matter of Complexion: The Life and Fictions of Charles W. Chesnutt (St. Martin’s Press, 2025) [5]

References

  1. ^ "Tess Chakkalakal". Bowdoin College: Faculty and Staff Profiles. Retrieved 2025-10-13.
  2. ^ Hall, The Music. "Tess Chakkalakal". The Music Hall. Retrieved 2025-03-18.
  3. ^ Reviews of Novel Bondage
  4. ^ Reviews of Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs Byerman, Keith (2014). "Review of Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs". The Journal of American History. 101 (3): 956–957. ISSN 0021-8723.
    • Tsank, Stephanie (2015). Gruesser, John Cullen; Chakkalakal, Tess; Warren, Kenneth W. (eds.). "Engaging with Empire". The Southern Literary Journal. 47 (2): 141–145. ISSN 0038-4291.
  5. ^ Reviews of A Matter of Complexion
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