EMILY RUTTER

Emily Ruth 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, and Black Celebrity: Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists. She is co-editor of Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era. Her monograph, “White Lies and Allies in Contemporary Black Media,” is forthcoming with Routledge. Her scholarship appears in African American Review, MELUS, and Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, among other journals and edited collections. Rutter is Associate Professor of English at Ball State University.