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.”