Tess Chakkalakal

{{short description|American biographer and writer}} '''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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tess Chakkalakal |url=https://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty/tchakkal/index.html |access-date=2025-10-13 |website=Bowdoin College: Faculty and Staff Profiles |language=en}}</ref>She previously taught at Williams College, Bowling Green State University, and Texas A & M International University

She is co-host and creator of ''Dead Writers: A Podcast About Great American Authors and Where They Lived''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hall |first=The Music |title=Tess Chakkalakal |url=https://www.themusichall.org/events/tesschakkalakal/ |access-date=2025-03-18 |website=The Music Hall |language=en-US}}</ref>

== Selected publications== * {{cite journal |last=Chakkalakal |first=Tess |date=2005 |title=“Uncle Tom” and the Making of a Modern African American Literature |journal=The Review of Black Political Economy |volume=33 |issue=2 |pages=73–87 |doi=10.1007/s12114-005-1017-7 |issn=0034-6446}} * ''Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America'' (Illinois, 2011) <ref>Reviews of ''Novel Bondage'' *{{Cite journal |last=Rohrer |first=Katherine E. |date=2013 |title=Review of Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5323/jafriamerhist.98.3.0477 |journal=The Journal of African American History |volume=98 |issue=3 |pages=477–479 |doi=10.5323/jafriamerhist.98.3.0477 |issn=1548-1867}} *{{Cite journal |last=Kete |first=Mary Louise |last2=Davis |first2=Theo |last3=Korobkin |first3=Laura |last4=Roggenkamp |first4=Karen |date=2013 |title=Review of Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5250/legacy.30.1.0201 |journal=Legacy |volume=30 |issue=1 |pages=201–213 |doi=10.5250/legacy.30.1.0201 |issn=0748-4321}}</ref> * ''Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs'' (Georgia, 2013). <ref>Reviews of ''Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs'' {{Cite journal |last=Byerman |first=Keith |date=2014 |title=Review of Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44286392 |journal=The Journal of American History |volume=101 |issue=3 |pages=956–957 |issn=0021-8723}} *{{Cite journal |last=Tsank |first=Stephanie |date=2015 |editor-last=Gruesser |editor-first=John Cullen |editor2-last=Chakkalakal |editor2-first=Tess |editor3-last=Warren |editor3-first=Kenneth W. |title=Engaging with Empire |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24898792 |journal=The Southern Literary Journal |volume=47 |issue=2 |pages=141–145 |issn=0038-4291}}</ref> * ''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) <ref>Reviews of ''A Matter of Complexion'' *{{Cite news |last=Yorker |first=The New |date=2025-03-10 |title=Briefly Noted Book Reviews |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/17/a-matter-of-complexion-the-moral-circle-the-boyhood-of-cain-and-theory-and-practice |access-date=2025-03-18 |work=The New Yorker |language=en-US |issn=0028-792X}} *{{cite web |last=Greenidge |first=Kerri K. |date=2025-02-03 |title=Book Review: ‘A Matter of Complexion,’ by Tess Chakkalakal |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/books/review/a-matter-of-complexion-tess-chakkalakal.html |access-date=2025-03-18 |website=The New York Times}} *{{cite web |last=Rollyson |first=Carl |date=2025-02-21 |title=A Novelist, a Poet, and the Human Experience in All of Its Colors and Formulations |url=https://www.nysun.com/article/a-novelist-a-poet-and-the-human-experience-in-all-of-its-colors-and-formulations |access-date=2025-03-18 |website=The New York Sun}}</ref>

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== External links == * [https://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty/tchakkal/ Tess Chakkalakal | Bowdoin College] * {{C-SPAN|67672}}

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