Cheryl A. Wall (October 29, 1948 – April 4, 2020) was a literary critic and professor of English at Rutgers University. One of the first black women to head an English department at a major research university, she worked for diversity in the literary canon as well as in the classroom. She specialized in black women's writing, particularly the Harlem Renaissance and Zora Neale Hurston. She edited several volumes of Hurston's writings for the Library of America. She was also a section editor for and was on the editorial boards of American Literature, African American Review and Signs.An award-winning researcher and teacher, she was named the Board of Governors Zora Neale Hurston Professor in 2007.