Tess Chakkalakal

Tess Chakkalakal is the author of Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America and coeditor of Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs and Imperium in Imperio: A Critical Edition. Her writing has appeared in the New England Quarterly , J19 , American Literary History , and many others. She teaches African American and American literature at Bowdoin College.

Tess Chakkalakal is the author of Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America and coeditor of Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs and Imperium in Imperio: A Critical Edition. Her writing has appeared in the New England Quarterly , J19 , American Literary History , and many others. She teaches African American and American literature at Bowdoin College. See less