Cheryl Sterling, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of English and African Studies at Penn State University (PSU). She served as Director of African Studies at PSU (2018 - 2021) and Black Studies at The City College (CUNY) (2013 - 2018). She is a Fulbright Scholar and recipient of numerous grants. Her research areas are African Literature, Post-Colonial Theories, African Aesthetics, African/Diaspora Expressive Cultures, and Translational Feminist Studies. Her publications include: African Roots, Brazilian Rites: Cultural and National Identity in Brazil (Palgrave 2012), winner 2013 NYASA Book Award, edited volumes Translational Africana Women's Fictions (Routledge 2022) and Translational Trills in the Africana World (Cambridge SP 2019). She is also the editor of a Special Issue of WAGADU: A Journal Translational Women's and Gender Studies (Winter 2017), and has written numerous articles and book chapters. Dr. Sterling is currently working on a book project creating aesthetic theories based on Yoruba Orisha paradigms.