Black Writers Lecture Series "The Mulatta Mystique: The Iconography of the New Negro"

Cherene M Sherrard Assistant Professor in English and African American Studies, University of Wisconsin.

Cherene M Sherrard received her B.A. from UCLA, and her Ph.D. from Cornell University. Her Areas of Research include African American Literature, 19th Century American Literature, Feminist theory, Cultural Studies and Caribbean Literature. Her publications include: The Colonizing? Figure of the mother in Paule Marshalls Brown Girl, Brownstones and Jamaica Kincaid's Autobiography of my Mother in MaComere. Virginia: James Madison and selected poems, reviews and short stories. She currently works on a study of black female iconography and Afro-modernism in the art, literature and culture of the Harlem Renaissance.