Cherise Pollard

Cherise Pollard
  • Professor
  • Department: English
  • Institution: West Chester University of Pennsylvania
  • Email: CPollard@wcupa.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
  • M.A., University of Pittsburgh
  • B.A., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Research Interests

African American LiteraturePoetryRhetoric and CompositionLiterary TheoryBlack Historical FictionBlack Feminist Literary CriticismSlave Narratives

Opportunities

Work Study Positions Available: No

Grant Funded Positions Available: No

Course-Credit Research Opportunities Available: No

Volunteer Research Positions Available: No

Contact Information

Phone: 610-436-2959

List of Publications

  • Review of The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States, eds. Miriam Jiminez Roman and Juan Flores. MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 38.1 (Spring 2013): 171-173. Co-authored with Erin Hurt. "The High Cost of Freedom: The Strategic Use of Memory and Voice in Lorene Cary's The Price of a Child." In Reclaiming Home, Remembering Motherhood, Rewriting History: African American and Afro-Caribbean Women's Literature in the Twentieth Century. Eds. Verena Thiele and Marie Drews. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, July 2009. "Claiming Joy and Naming Sorrow: Exploring the Connections Between Womanly Truths and Feminist Practice in Lucille Clifton's Poetry." The Langston Hughes Review 22 (Fall 2008): 19-26. "Sexual Subversions/Political Inversions: Women's Poetry and the Politics of the Black Arts Movement." New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement. Eds. Margo Crawford and Lisa Collins. Rutgers University Press, 2006. "'But Could a Dream Send Up Through Onion Fumes': The Intersections of Race, Gender, and Class in Gwendolyn Brooks' A Street in Bronzeville." EAPSU Online Proceedings, 2004. "Self-Evident Truths: Love, Complicity, and Critique in Barbara Chase-Riboud's Sally Hemmings and The President's Daughter." In Monuments of the Black Atlantic: Slavery and Memory. Eds. Joanne M. Braxton and Maria Diedrich. Book 13 in the Forecaast series. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2004. "Reader's Guide." Barbara Chase-Riboud's Sally Hemings: A Novel. Chicago Review Press, 2009. "Reader's Guide." Barbara Chase-Riboud's The President's Daughter: A Novel. Chicago Review Press, 2009. "Audre Lorde." Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender. Ed. Fedwa Malti-Douglas. Thompson/Gale Publishers, 2007. Outsiders. Midwest Writing Center Press, 2016. Winner of the Mississippi Valley/Susan K. Collins Poetry Chapbook Contest, 2015. "The Kidney." The Healing Muse 13.1 (Fall 2013). "That’s Right"
  • "Diversion"
  • and "Old Maid's Rules." Affilia: The Journal of Women in Social Work 27.4 (November 2012): 449-450. "Sweetness and the Light Girl, 1938"
  • "Steel Will,1942"
  • and "Leaving Bethlehem Steel, 1947." Connotations Press, February 2011. "Returns"

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