Cheryl Emerson

Cheryl Emerson is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Organization and Human Resources at the University at Buffalo's School of Management. She holds a PhD and MA from the University at Buffalo, an MA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and a BA from Concordia University. Her research focuses on critical race and gender theory, feminist poetics, and the embodiment of language through literary analysis. She teaches 'Communication Literacy for Business' and actively publishes in interdisciplinary journals.

• Education: PhD in Management (UB), MA (UB), MA (UNLV), BA (Concordia)

Her research explores intersections of race, gender, and embodiment in literature through works by Toni Morrison, Claudia Rankine, and experimental poets. She engages with existential phenomenology (Merleau-Ponty) and postcolonial theory in analyzing texts like Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and Wilson Bueno's Paraguayan Sea.

Recent publications (2015-2019) critically examine language's role in marginalization, trauma representation, and corporeal expression across diverse literary forms. She has received awards including the UB Humanities Institute Fellowship (2020-21) and Dartmouth Futures of American Studies Grant (2021).

• Awards: Clint Goodson Research Award (2022), Dartmouth Travel Grant (2021)

As faculty advisor for UB's 'Stand Up and Laugh' undergraduate comedy club, she bridges academic rigor with creative expression. Her work spans literary criticism, feminist theory, and interdisciplinary humanities scholarship.