Emily Ruth Rutter

Emily Ruth Rutter is Associate Dean of the Honors College and Associate Professor of English at Ball State University. She 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 scholarship appears in African...See more

Emily Ruth Rutter is Associate Dean of the Honors College and Associate Professor of English at Ball State University. She 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 scholarship appears in African American Review, MELUS , and Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature , among other journals and edited collections. See less