Martha J. Cutter is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, where she teaches classes in American Literature, Ethnic Literature, African American Literature, and Women's Literature. She is the former editor of Legacy: A Journal on American Women Writers, and since 20006 she has edited MELUS: THE JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF MULTI-ETHNIC LITERATURE OF THE UNITED STATES. Her first book, UNRULY TONGUE: LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY IN AMERICAN WOMEN'S WRITING, 1850-1930, won the 2001 Nancy Dasher Award from the College English Association. Her second book, LOST AND FOUND IN TRANSLATION, was published in 2005 by the University of North Carolina Press. Her own publications have appeared in AMERICAN LITERATURE, AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE, MELUS, CALLALOO, WOMEN'S STUDIES, LEGACY, and CRITICISM, and she has also contributed articles to volumes such as ESSAYS ON MIXED-RACE LITERATURE (Stanford University Press, 2002) and PASSING AND THE FICTIONS OF IDENTITY (Duke University Press, 1996).
