Cheryl Lester CHERYL LESTER (Ph.D. State University of New York College at Buffalo) is Associate Professor of English and American Studies, Courtesy Faculty Member of African and African-American Studies, and Graduate Director of the American Studies Program t the University of Kansas. She is the author of articles on American literature and critical and cultural theory. In 1995 she was an NEH fellow, in 1997 she was a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong, and in 1998 she was a visiting professor at the University of Gaston-Bergere in St. Louis, Senegal. She received a Kemper Teaching Award in 1998 and Center for Teaching Excellence Awards in Undergraduate and Graduate Teaching in 1998 and 2000. Read More Read Less