Rate My Professor Sherry Johnson

Johnson's research is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Advancement Grant, the Mellon Foundation, the Slavery North Institute, and the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She is Vice-President and Program Chair for MELUS, the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States, and former chair of its Women of Color Caucus. Key publications include the monograph Reading Black Life in Eighteenth-Century Canada and Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes (Publishing Without Walls, 2026); forthcoming Companion to Nineteenth-Century African American Literature (McFarland Publishing, 2027) and Porous Borders: Contours of Black Writing Between Canada and the USA (in editing/review); book chapters “Resisting Black-Lack Readings of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man” in Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Ellison (Modern Language Association of America, 2024) and “Self-care and Sanctuary in Black Women’s Salons” in Trauma, Tresses and Truth (Chicago Review Press, 2022); the essay “Self-Revision as Praxis” in Black Perspectives (2022); and book reviews of Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic in Early American Literature (2025) and Geographies of African American Short Fiction in Resources for American Literary Study (2022). In 2026, she received a service award from Grand Valley State University.