Cheryl Toman is a Professor of French and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Case Western Reserve University where she also serves as Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Toman’s research focuses on Francophone women writers from Cameroon, Gabon, and Mali. She is the author of Women Writers of Gabon: Literature and Herstory (Lexington 2016), Contemporary Matriarchies in Cameroonian Francophone Literature (Summa 2008), co-author (with A. Rawiri and S. Hanaburgh) of The Fury and Cries of Women (University of Virginia Press 2014), and editor of the collection, Capital Culture (LaDoxa 2019). Her essays appear in journals such as Research in African Literatures, Women’s Studies International Forum, Women in French, Meridians, and Feminist Studies among others and she is the book review editor for Women in French Studies. In 2016, she was named President of the Biennale de la Langue Française. She is also a former Fulbright Scholar and the recipient of a Brown Foundation Fellowship from the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.