Tess Chakkalakal

TESS CHAKKALAKAL teaches African-American and American Literature at Bowdoin College. Her writing has appeared in The New England Quarterly , J19 , American Literary History , and many others. She is the author of Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century American (Illinois UP, 2011) and co-editor of Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs (University of Georgia Press, 2013) and Imperium in Imperio: A Critical Edition (West Virginia UP, 2022) She lives...See more

TESS CHAKKALAKAL teaches African-American and American Literature at Bowdoin College. Her writing has appeared in The New England Quarterly , J19 , American Literary History , and many others. She is the author of Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century American (Illinois UP, 2011) and co-editor of Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs (University of Georgia Press, 2013) and Imperium in Imperio: A Critical Edition (West Virginia UP, 2022) She lives in Brunswick, Maine. See less