Emily Rutter
Associate Dean of the Honors College and Professor of English
Curriculum Vitae
Emily Ruth Rutter (she/her/hers) is Professor of English, Associate Dean of the Honors College, and affiliate faculty in Women's, Gender, and African American Studies at Ball State University. She is the author of four monographs, most recently 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) and the forthcoming Black Saturation: Selected Works of Stephen E. Henderson (UP of Mississippi, 2025). Her essays have appeared in African American Review, MELUS, The Langston Hughes Review, and Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature,among other journals and edited collections.