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Dr cheryl wall what does it mean to be a black woman who reads books for a living
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.
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- Dr cheryl wall what does it mean to be a black woman who reads books for a living
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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.
