Emily Ruth RutterEmily Ruth Rutter is associate professor of English at Ball State University. She is author of The Blues Muse: Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry. Along with Tiffany Austin, Sequoia Maner, and darlene anita scott, sh coedited Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era. Her numerous essays have appeared in A History of Twentieth-Century American Women's Poetry, African American Review, MELUS, and Aethlon, among other journals and edited collections. Read More Read Less