Cheryl A. Wall is a literary critic and professor of English at Rutgers University. She specializes in black women's writing, particularly the Harlem Renaissance and Zora Neale Hurston. She has edited several volumes of Hurston's writings for the Library of America. She is also a section editor for The Norton Anthology of African American Literature and is on the editorial board of American Literature, The African American Review and Signs.
Wall received her B.A. from Howard University and her Ph.D from Harvard. An award-winning researcher and teacher, she was named the Board of Governors Zora Neale Hurston Professor in 2007.
Cheryl Wall has had a lifelong commitment to African American arts and culture and was the founding board chair of the Crossroads Theater Company, the first Black Theater in New Jersey, founded by two Rutgers graduates, Ricardo Khan and Lee Richardson in 1978.
Wall, C. A. (1995). Women of the Harlem Renaissance. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. http://pvamu.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=586
Wall, C. A. (2005). Worrying the line : black women writers, lineage, and literary tradition. University of North Carolina Press. http://pvamu.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cat07398a&AN=pvu.b1271646
Holmes, L. J. (ed. and introd. ., Wall, C. A. (ed. and introd. ., & Cleage, P. (foreword). (2008). Savoring the Salt: The Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara. Philadelphia, PA: Temple UP http://pvamu.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsmzh&AN=2008530761
Leigh, A. D. (2002). Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God”: A Casebook Cheryl Wall. The Mississippi Quarterly, 55(2), 280 http://pvamu.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsjsr&AN=edsjsr.26476595
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