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Emily Ruth Rutter
Emily Ruth Rutter is Associate Professor of English at Ball State University. Rutter is author of Invisible Ball of Dreams: Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line, The Blues Muse: Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry, Black Celebrity: Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists, and White Lies and Allies in Contemporary Black Media. She is co-editor of Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era.
Biography
Emily Ruth Rutter is Associate Dean of the Honors College and Associate Professor of English at Ball State University. Rutter is author of Invisible Ball of Dreams: Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line, The Blues Muse: Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry, Black Celebrity: Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists, and White Lies and Allies in Contemporary Black Media (Routledge, 2023). She is co-editor of Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era (Routledge, 2020). Her scholarship appears in African American Review, MELUS, and Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, among other journals and edited collections. You can read more about Rutter’s work at emilyruthrutter.com.Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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African American literature
Multi-Ethnic American literature
African American Studies
Women and Gender Studies
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emilyruthrutter.com
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