African American Studies Staff

Dr. Cheryl R. Hopson is an associate professor of English and African American studies in the Department of English at WKU. She has published essays on Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston, and Rebecca Walker; as well as on U.S. Black and Third Wave feminism. A poet as well, Hopson's first full-length poetry collection In Case You Get This (FLP 2023) will debut in the summer of 2023. Finishing Line Press published her chapbooks Fragile (2017), and Black Notes (2013); other poems can be found in Toronto Quarterly, Indianapolis Review, Not Very Quiet, Rise Up Review, and other venues. Courses taught include African American literature, Radical Blackness, Introduction to Literature, Intermediate and Advanced Poetry, and a graduate-level poetry workshop.