title: Cherene Sherrard Johnson
text: # Cherene Sherrard Johnson
  
  Cherene Sherrard Johnson is an American scholar, whose research focuses on the representation of Black women in American literature and visual culture from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century. She is the E. Wilson Lyon Professor of the Humanities at Pomona College in Claremont, California.
  
  ## Career
  
  In July 2022, she was appointed the E. Wilson Lyon Professor of the Humanities, an endowed chair at Pomona College.
  
  