Mark Madigan. Nazareth College, Rochester, NY. “Abu Ghraib, Katrina, and Jena: Using Current Events to Teach Wright’s Works in the U.S.”   E. Lale Demirtürk. Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. “Teaching Richard Wright in the 21st Century Turkey: Native Son, The Ghetto and Turkish Squatter Settlements.”   Ana Fraile. Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain. “I had been what my surrounding had demanded”: Contextualizing Richard Wright’s Work in the Classroom.”   Toru Kiuchi. Nihon University, Narashino, Japan. “Teaching Richard Wright’s Haiku.”

Sara Blair. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. “Richard Wright, Black Power, and Photographic Modernism.”   Mark Goble. University of California, Irvine. “Black Noise.”

Laurence Cossu-Beaumont. University of Amiens, France. “Richard Wright’s Work from the French Scholarly Perspective.”   Sachi Nakachi. Tsuru University (Japan) “African American Japonisme and Richard Wright.”   Ginevra Geraci. “Life and Death of a Black Man(n) in Richard Wright’s “Down by the Riverside.”   Heather Duerre Humann. The University of Alabama. “Genre in/and Wright’s Native Son.”

Susan V. Donaldson. College of William and Mary. “Uncle Tom’s Children, Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series, and ‘the Long Civil Rights Movement’.”   Thadious Davis. University of Pennsylvania. “Becoming Richard Wright: The WPA and the Black Professional Writer.”   John Lowe, Louisiana State University. “Richard Wright and the CircumCaribbean.”   Joseph T. Skerrett. University of Massuchusetts, Amherst. “Irony and Satire in the Late Fiction of Richard Wright.”

Michel Feith. University of Nantes, France. “Working the Underground Seam: Richard Wright's “The Man Who Lived Underground” as Intertextual Hub.”   Gary Holcomb. Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas. “Wright and McKay: Crossing Black Hemispheres.”   Shoshana Milgram Knapp. Virginia Tech. “Recontextualizing Richard Wright’s The Outsider: Hugo, Dostoevsky, Max Eastman, and Ayn Rand.”

Melba J. Boyd. Wayne State University. “Translating Existentialism in the Fiction of Richard Wright into Film.”   Page Laws. Norfolk State University, Norfolk, Virginia.  “Not Everybody’s Protest Film: Native Son’s Place among Controversial Adaptations.”

Nancy Dawson. "Is It Really Strange Fruit? The Common Occurrence of the Hangman's Noose in the American Public and Private Sector."   Ahati N. N. Toure. Delaware State University. "A Tool of Terrorism in European Settler Dictatorship: Reflections on the Role of Lynching in the United States in the Destruction of the Afrikan Quest for Sovereignty."

Stéphane Robolin. Williams College. “Race, Flight, and the Geographies of Richard Wright.”   R. Baxter Miller. University of Georgia. “The Modern and Post Modern Eden: Richard Wright.”   Kimberly Drake. Scripps College. “The Politics of Space in Wright’s Native Son.”

Charles Scruggs. The University of Arizona. "The Gothic Motif in the Fiction of Ernest Hemingway and Richard Wright."   Dennis Flynn. Bentley College. “James T. Farrell and Richard Wright: Race and Literary Influence.”   Julieann Ulin. The University of Notre Dame. “The Astonishing Humanity”: The Politics of Housing Discrimination in the Friendship between Richard Wright and Carson McCullers.”   Ayesha K. Hardison. Ohio University. “In the (W)right tradition? Gendering Social Criticism in Ann Petry’s The Street.”

Sigmund C. Shen. LaGuardia Community College, CUNY. “‘An Unatonable Guilt’: Wright’s Struggle with Communism and the Shame of the Physical in Black Boy: American Hunger.”   Joseph Keith. Binghamton University. “Richard Wright, The Outsider and the Empire of Liberal Pluralism: Race and American Expansion after WWII.”   Virginia Whatley Smith. University of Alabama at Birmingham. "Lying or Truthtelling: Ambiguities of Deception and Self-Negation in Richard Wright's 1950's Novel Savage Holiday."

Tommie Shelby. Harvard University. “The Ethics of the Oppressed: Richard Wright’s Uncle Tom’s Children.”   Sophia Emmanoulidou. The Greek Ministry of Education. “Construction and Deconstruction: Self-Identity in Abeyance in Richard Wright’s The Outsider.”   Maria Cristina Iuli. Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, Italy. “The Body as a Critical Concept. Richard Wright’s Native Son.”   Floyd W. Hayes. Johns Hopkins University. “Richard Wright and the Dilemma of the Ethical Criminal: Can One Live Beyond Good and Evil?”

Robert Butler. Canisius College. “The Religious Vision of Richard Wright’s Native Son and Black Boy/American Hunger.”   Karen E. Markoe. State University of New York Maritime College. “Richard Wright and the Jews: An Intersection in Life and Letters.”   Matthew Calihman. Calihman, Matthew. Missouri State University. “Teaching Wright in the Ozarks.”   Kathyrn Gines. Vanderbilt University. “Existentialism and Exile: The Philosophical Legacy of Richard Wright.”

James Peterson. Bucknell University. “The Hate U Gave (T.H.U.G.): Reflections on the Bigger Figures in Present Day Hip Hop Culture.”   Steven Tracy. University of Massachusetts. “A Wright to Sing the Blues: Big Boy’s Blues Fell This Morning.”

Frank Mehring. Freie University of Berlin. "Bigger in Nazi Germany: Transcultural Confrontations of Richard Wright and Hans Juergen Massaquoi."   Ugo Rubeo. Rome University. "Reading Richard in Wright's Writing of Black Boy."   Matthias Freidank. University of Munich. "Scenes of Exposure: Richard Wright, Frantz Fanon and the Psychology of Shame."

William J. Maxwell. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. “Wright Among the ‘G-Men’: How the FBI Framed Paris Noir.”   Joshua Parker. Fatih University., Istanbul. “Paris, The Long Dream.”   Mark A. Reid. University of Florida. “Richard Wright, Paris, and a PostNegritude Interrogation: Immigration, Homeless Lands, and Borderless Crossings.”

Sostene Massimo Zangari. University of Milan, Italy. “Richard Wright and the Ambiguities of Decolonization.”   Kristina D. Bobo. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “‘A Very Average Negro’: Richard Wright’s Cool Pose as Public Intellectual.”   Cynthia H. Tolentino. University of Oregon. “Between Communism and Sociology: Richard Wright’s Intellectual of Color.”   Robert Shulman. University of Washington. “The Neglected Political Art of Wright’s “Fire and Cloud.”

Elizabeth Muther. Bowdoin College. "Speaking for the Pictures: Wright's 12 Million Black Voices."   Aimable Twagilimana. State University of New York College at Buffalo. "The Poetics of Irony in Native Son."

Joe Flynn. SUNY, Alfred State. “Transcendent Outsider: The Continuity of ‘Riven Consciousness’ and Critical Vision in Richard Wright’s Prose and Poetry.”   Sylvie Kandé. SUNY, Old Westbury. “The Haiku of Richard Wright: This Other World or the Foreigner’s Home?”   Meta L. Schettler.  California State University, Fresno. “This Other World and Black Boy: Healing and Loss.”   Kaleem Ashraf. University of Sheffield. "Wright's BSR (Black Speech Representation)."

Christel N. Temple. University of Maryland, Baltimore County. “Richard Wright and Black Cultural Mythology: Legacy and the African American Canon.”   Aimee Glocke. Temple University. “Neglected and Misunderstood: Richard Wright’s Contributions and Present Day Exclusions from the Discipline of Black Studies.”

Eve Dunbar. Vassar College. “Ethnography as Escapism?: Genre, African Americans, and Richard Wright.”   Marc Mve Bekale. Cercles d’Etudes Afro-Américaines (CEAA). “Richard Wright and Cheik Hamidou Kane: The Black Intellectual and the Impossible Negotiation of Postcolonial and Postracial Identity.”   Chen Xu. Hangzhou Dianzi University, China. "On the Third Consciousness in the Fiction of Richard Wright"   Sudhi Rajiv. Jai Narain Vyas University, India. "Beyond Boundaries: Richard Wright in a Global Context."

Professor Alice Craven. The American University of Paris. “Commercialization and the Uncanny: Excavating Richard Wright's Paris”   Monsieur Yvon Girard. Directeur de la Collection Folio. Gallimard. “Gallimard and Company : Richard Wright at Home in Translation and Postwar Literary Friendships."   Isée St. John Knowles. "Richard Wright's Last Space: the Vanished Realm of Baudelairean Saint-Germain-des-Prés."   Paul Oliver. "Richard Wright and the Blues."

Rebecka Rutledge Fisher. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “The Poetics of Life Underground.”   John Charles. North Carolina State University. “The Unfinished Project of Western Modernity: Savage Holiday and the Problem of Freedom.”   Louise Bernard. Georgetown University. “Trouble in Mind: Wright, Sartre, and the Trials of Consciousness.”   Carlos Brossard, Harvard University. "Chicago, The University of Chicago and Richard Wright."

Richard A. Courage. Westchester Community College. “Richard Wright and the “Wild River.”   James S. King. Salisbury University, Salisbury MD. "Mastery of Form in Richard Wright's Savage Holiday."   Leonard Cassuto. Fordham University. “Men Out of Place: Richard Wright and the Fearful Fifties.”   Roland E. Bush. California State University. “The Morality of Murder: Richard Wright’s The Outsider and André Gide’s Les Caves du Vatican.”

Michelle Ann Stephens. Colgate University. “Alien Nation Blues: Richard Wright and the Third World Struggle.”   Ann Rayson. University of Hawaii. "Richard Wright: Place and The Outsider.”   Maria Ramos. J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, Richmond, VA. “‘What then did being Western mean?”: Richard Wright, Pagan Spain, and Western Identity.”

Maryemma Graham. University of Kansas. “Richard Wright and the Culture of Biography.”   Mohamed Yazid Bendjeddou. University of Annaba, Algeria. “Richard Wright and the African-American Autobiographical Tradition.”   Claudine Raynaud. University of Tours, France. “Changing Texts: Censorship, Autobiography and Fiction.”   Teresa Barnes. University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa. “Treasure Found: The Letters of Richard Wright to Margaret Ellen Barnes, 1938-1939.”

Michele L. Simms-Burton. Independent Scholar. Alexandria, VA. “The Long Dream: Desire and the Protocols of Race.”   Gabriel Mendes.  Brown University. “‘Freud Turned Upside Down’: Richard Wright and the Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic, Harlem, NY 1945-1960.”   Zetta Elliott. Mt. Holyoke College. “Man of All Work? Richard Wright and the Performance of Black Female Subjectivity.”

Patricia Young. Western Illinois University. “It’s a HE-thang: Big Boy Confronts His Violent World.”   Corry Colonna. Colonna, Corry. University of Massachusetts. “Dissecting The Long Dream: The Revelation of Secrets on the Path to Manhood.”   Isabel Soto. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain. “White People to Other Side: Native Son and the Poetics of Space.”

Amrit Singh. Ohio University. “Richard Wright: The Global and the Transnational.”   Wendell P. Holbrook. Rutgers University. “Sojourners In the Gold Coast and Ghana: Comparing Richard Wright’s Black Power with African-American Travel Narratives of the 1940s and 1960s.”

Carlos Brossard, Harvard University. "The National Security State and Richard Wright."    Robert Meeropol, "The 'Sins' of the Fathers: Experts and Interested Parties."   John Potash, "Black Art, Politics and Counter-Resistance: From Richard Wright to Rap."   Wendy Johnson, "History's 'Red Diaper' Babies."   Julian Kunnie, University of Arizona. "Richard Wright's Interrogation of Negritude: Revolutionary Implications for Pan Africanism and the Black Liberation Movement."

Houston Baker, Vanderbilt University   Melba Boyd, Wayne State University   Michel Feith, University of Nantes   Arlette Frund, University of Tours   Joyce Ann Joyce, Temple University   Toru Kiuchi, Nihon University   John Lowe, Louisiania State University   Marc Mve Bekale, Cercles d’Etudes Afro-Américaines   Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris   Claudine Raynaud, University of Tours   Anne Rayson, University of Hawaii   Ugo Robeo, Rome University   John Edgar Wideman   Julia Wright