About

Emily Ruth Rutter is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of English at Bloomfield College of Montclair State University. She is the author of four books: Invisible Ball of Dreams: Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line (University Press of Mississippi, 2018), The Blues Muse: Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry (University of Alabama Press, 2018), Black Celebrity: Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists (University of Delaware Press, 2021), and White Lies and Allies in Contemporary Black Media (Routledge, 2023). Along with Tiffany Austin, Sequoia Maner, and darlene anita scott, she co-edited Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era (Routledge, 2020). Along with Phil Richards, E. Ethelbert Miller, and Hazel Arnett Ervin, she co-edited Black Saturation: Selected Works of Stephen E. Henderson. Her numerous essays have been published in African American Review, MELUS, The Langston Hughes Review, and Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, among other journals and edited collections.

You can read Dr. Rutter's scholarship here: https://www.emilyruthrutter.com/