Cheryl Sterling Email and Phone Number

CHERYL STERLING, Ph.D., is an Assoc. Professor of African Studies and English and former Director ofAfrican Studies at Penn State University. Prof. Sterling also previously directed the Black Studies Program at The City College (CUNY). She is a Fulbright Scholar and recipient of numerous grants including the Organization of American States fellowship. Her teaching and research interests overlap the areas of identity, representation, and aesthetics in African and African Diaspora Literature, Post-Colonial Theory, Critical Race Theory, Gender Studies, and Social and Cultural Movements in Brazil. She has published numerous critical essays in noted journals and in texts such as Migrations and Creative Expressions of Africa and the African Diaspora and Narrating War and Peace in Africa. She is the editor of a special issue of WAGADU: A Journal Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies on African and Diasporic Women’s Literature (Winter 2017). Her award winning book, African Roots, Brazilian Rites: Cultural and National Identity (Palgrave MacMillan 2012), investigates African roots matrix ideologies in the literary and performance traditions of Afro-Brazilians. Her edited volumes include Transnational Trills: Music and Art in the Africana World (Cambridge Scholars Press 2019) and Transnational Africana Women's Fiction (Routledge 2021, forthcoming). She is currently working on a book that creates Aesthetic theory based on Yoruba Orisha paradigms to read African and African Diasporic texts and images.