Speakers
- Cheryl Sterling
- The Pennsylvania State University, Director of African Studies, Associate Professor
Cheryl Sterling, Ph.D., an Associate Professor of English and Director of the African Studies Program at Penn State University is a Fulbright Scholar and Organization of American States fellow. She researches issues of identity, representation, and aesthetics in African and Diaspora Literature, Post-Colonial Theory, Critical Race Theory, Social and Cultural Movements in Brazil. 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 forthcoming edited volume, Transnational Trills in the Africana World, explores the overlap of politics and creative production (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2019). Prof. Sterling is currently working on a book that creates Aesthetic theory based on Yoruba Orisha paradigms.