Charles W. Chesnutt
Ohio author Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) was the first nationally known African American fiction writer. He published three novels, two collections of short stories, a biography of Frederick Douglass, and dozens of short stories and essays in prestigious magazines of his day.
Author of…
The Northern Stories of Charles W. Chesnutt – On Sale
The first African American fiction writer to earn a national reputation, Charles W. Chesnutt remains best known for his depictions of Southern life before and after the Civil War. But he also produced a large body of what might best be called his "Northern" writings, and those works, taken together, describe the intriguing ways in which America was reshaping itself at the turn of the last century.…
- Edwin Cady
Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus at Duke University… - Terry Caesar
Professor of English at Clarion University… - Luli Callinicos
- Vibert C. Cambridge
Associate professor of telecommunications and chair of the department of African American studies at Ohio University… - A. E. Campbell
Professor emeritus, University of Birmingham and a leading British scholar of early twentieth-century American history… - Donna Campbell
- Elizabeth A. Campbell
- Gwyn Campbell
Author and editor of many works, including Abolition and Its Aftermath in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia and An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar… - Louis W. Campbell
- SueEllen Campbell
Associate professor of English at Bowling Green State University… - Joseph Candido
Professor of English at the University of Arkansas, where he teaches Shakespeare and Renaissance drama… - Dorothy Canfield
Popular writer in the first half of the century… - Lucia Capacchione
- Mary Wilson Carpenter
- Alicia Carroll
Assistant professor in the English department at Auburn University… - Jo Carson
Writer and performer from Johnson City, Tennessee… - Meredith Carson
Born in Brooklyn in 1913… - Peter Carstens
Professor of social anthropology at the University of Toronto… - Grace Carswell
Lecturer in geography at Sussex University… - Turner Cassity
Born in 1929 in Jackson, Mississippi… - David Castronovo
Professor of English at Pace University in New York City… - Andrew R. L. Cayton
Author of several books, including Ohio: The History of a People and, with Fred Anderson, The Dominion of War: Liberty and Empire in North America, 1500–2000… - Julius L. Chambers
Chancellor of North Carolina Central University and the former director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund… - Charles Champlin
- Julie A. Charlip
Associate professor of history at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington… - D. P. Chattopadhyaya
- Andrée Chedid
Poet, essayist, dramatist and novelist of Egypto-Lebanese origin… - Charles W. Chesnutt
First nationally known African American fiction writer… - Harry E. Chrisman
- Carl C. Christensen
Professor of history at the University of Colorado at Boulder… - Chris Christiansen
- Diane M. Ciekawy
Associate professor of anthropology at Ohio University… - Mark Cioc
Professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and editor of the journal Environmental History… - Alisa Clapp-Itnyre
Assistant professor of English at Indiana University East in Richmond, Indiana, and has published articles in several journals and edited collections… - Ricky Clark
Affiliate scholar associated with Oberlin College and the author of several works on Ohio Quilts, including, as coauthor, Quilts in Community: Ohio’s Traditions… - Anthony Clayton
- William M. Clements
Co-author of Native American Folklore, 1879-1979: An Annotated Bibliography… - Richard L. Clutterbuck
- Lenore McComas Coberly
- James Cochrane
Professor and Director of the Church and Public Policy Programme in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Cape Town… - Donald V. Coers
- Christina Cogdell
Assistant professor of art history at the College of Santa Fe and the author of Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s… - David William Cohen
Professor of anthropology and history at the University of Michigan… - Matthew Isaac Cohen
Senior lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London… - Jane Candia Coleman
Co-founder and Director of the Women’s Creative Writing Center at Carlow College in Pittsburgh… - John Comaroff
- William Faricy Condee
Professor of theater and the director of the School of Interdisciplinary Arts at Ohio University… - William R. Conrad, Jr.
- Christopher A. Conte
Associate professor of history at Utah State University in Logan, Utah, where he teaches African and environmental history… - Brenda Cooper
- Robert M. Cooper
Professor of English at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee… - Ron L. Cooper
Native South Carolinian who received his Ph.D… - William O. Cord
- Temple H. Cornelius
- Alice M. Cornell
- Joost J. Coté
- H. R. Coursen
- Pierre Coustillas
Professor of English, University of Lille, France… - Jeffrey N. Cox
Associate professor of English at Texas A&M University, where he serves on the Steering Committee of the Interdisciplinary Group for Historical Literary Study… - Thomas H. Cox
Assistant professor of history at Sam Houston State University… - Jeanne L. Crabtree
Writer and a former editorial adviser to the law reviews published at the University of Oklahoma College of Law… - Samuel Crowl
Author of Shakespeare Observed: Studies in Performance on Stage and Screen as well as numerous essays, articles, reviews, and interviews on aspects of Shakespeare in performance… - Susan Crowl
Professor of English at Ohio University… - Jonathan Crush
Canada Research Fellow and an associate professor of geography at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario… - Sue C. Cummings
Ohio textiles… - James Cummins
Born in Columbus, Ohio, and grew up in Cleveland and Indianapolis… - Susan Currell
Lecturer in American literature at the University of Sussex and the author of The March of Spare Time… - James Currey
Editorial director at Heinemann Educational Books in charge of the African Writers Series from 1967 to 1984… - Philip D. Curtin
Herbert Baxter Adams Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University… - Frank Cushing
- Greg Cuthbertson
Chair of the department of history at the University of South Africa and coordinating editor of the South African Historical Journal… - Julia P. Cutler
- William P. Cutler
