Koritha Mitchell

Koritha Mitchell is the author of From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture (2020) and Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890–1930 (2011) and editor of Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (2023 edition) and Frances E. W. Harper’s 1892 novel Iola Leroy (2018 edition). She is also president-elect of the Society of Senior Ford Fellows (SSFF). Follow her @ProfKori.

Articles

Harriet Jacobs’ Enduring Legacy
Koritha Mitchell visits the birthplace of Harriet Jacobs. Read the story here—also featured in LARB Quarterly, no. 38: Earth—then listen to Koritha Mitchell and Michelle Lanier talk to each other about how the practice of engaging with history can ...
Sep 7
I Was Determined to Remember: Harriet Jacobs and the Corporeality of Slavery’s Legacies
Koritha Mitchell discusses her research for a scholarly edition of Harriet Jacobs’s “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.”...
May 30

Koritha Mitchell

Articles

Harriet Jacobs’ Enduring Legacy

I Was Determined to Remember: Harriet Jacobs and the Corporeality of Slavery’s Legacies