B.A., Howard; Ph.D., Harvard
Professor Wall is the author of Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition (University of North Carolina Press, 2005) and Women of the Harlem Renaissance (Indiana University Press, 1995), and the editor of Changing Our Own Words: Criticism, Theory, and Writing by Black Women (Rutgers University Press, 1989). She has edited two volumes of writing by Zora Neale Hurston for the Library of America – Novels and Short Stories (1995) and Folklore, Memoirs and Other Writings (1995) – as well as two volumes of criticism on Hurston's fiction: "Sweat": Texts and Contexts (Rutgers University Press, 1997) and Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Casebook (Oxford University Press, 2000). She is section editor for "Literature since 1975" in the Norton Anthology of African American Literature (2003). A specialist in Black women's writing, the Harlem Renaissance, and Zora Neale Hurston, Professor Wall serves on the editorial board of American Literature and on the advisory boards of African American Review and Signs.
A former chair of the department, Professor Wall remains active in university affairs. In 2003, she was co-principal with Mary Hartman of the Institute for Women’s Leadership on “Reaffirming Action: Designs for Diversity in Higher Education.” This Ford Foundation-funded initiative examined the strategies higher education institutions successfully employ to enhance racial and gender equity. Most recently, Professor Wall was selected by President McCormick to serve as Vice Chair of the Steering Committee on Implementation, a body organized to enact sweeping changes in undergraduate education at Rutgers.
She has just become co-chair, with Rutgers University President Richard L. McCormick, of the President’s Council on Institutional Diversity and Equity.
The recipient of the Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching, Professor Wall remains an active teacher. She was named a Board of Governors Professor of English in December 2006, and named the Board of Governors Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English in January 2007.
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