Associate Professor
Biographical Sketch: Sherry Johnson tells stories that engage memory and Black writing between Canada and the United States. She is a writer, researcher, and scholar of literature, particularly at the intersection of Black women’s lives and their writing, African American visual culture, and film studies. Currently an associate professor and Director of the graduate program in English at Grand Valley State University, she teaches courses in African American literature, Multicultural American literature, neo-slave narratives, and critical approaches to literary study. Her work appears in the American Studies Journal, African American Review, Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography, MELUS and other publications.