Cherene Sherrard-Johnson

Associate Professor
608-263-3757
csherrard@wisc.edu

Degrees and Institutions

PhD, Cornell University, 2000
BA, UCLA, 1995

Research Interests

African American Literature, 19th Century American Literature, Feminist theory, cultural studies and Caribbean Literature.

Selected Publications

Books: Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance. (New Brunswick: Rutgers, 2007).

Articles: “A Plea for Color: Nella Larsen’s Mulatta Iconography” in American Literature. Vol. 76.4, “Delicate Boundaries: Passing and other ‘Crossings’ in Fictionalized Slave Narratives” in A Companion to American Fiction 1780-1865, and “This plague of their own locusts”: Space, Property and Identity in Dorothy West’s The Living is Easy” African American Review. Vol. 38.4.

Current Projects

Cherene Sherrard-Johnson is the co-editor of a special issue of Legacy: Journal of American Women Writers on "Racial Identity, Indeterminacy, and Identification in the Nineteenth Century" with Professor P. Gabrielle Foreman (Occidental College).

She is currently at work at a biography of Dorothy West.