Britt Rusert
Biographic Data
| ID | 286399 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Britt Rusert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Britt |
| FAMILY NAME | Rusert |
| SIGNATURE | RUSERT B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Shadowing Forth Decay
By examining William J. Wilson’s 1859 “Afric-American Picture Gallery,” an experimental work that imagines the culture and history of the United States through an African American lens, this article demonstrates how Wilson challenged conventional art-historical narratives through his ekphrastic writing. Central to the authors’ analysis is Wilson’s radical depiction of Mount Vernon, which rejects the pastoral, idealized imagery common in nineteent…
Tales from Du Bois
In retrospect
Our contribution takes shape as reflections on Object Lessons (Wiegman, 2012) from the perspective of three scholars of race, gender and sexuality who were also graduate students of Robyn Wiegman in the mid-2000s at Duke University. All three of us took Introduction to Feminist Theory with her and all three of us received graduate certificates in Feminist Studies. Our educational and career trajectories also share this similarity: we received PhD…
The Matter of Black Living
Naturalizing Coercion
Sex with the Environment
Book Review| October 01 2020 Sex with the Environment The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America. LaFleur, Greta. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. xii + 286 pp. Britt Rusert Britt Rusert Britt Rusert is associate professor of Afro-American Studies at UMass Amherst. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2020) 26 (4): 732–735. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-8618813 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share F…
Naturalizing Coercion
Plantation Ecologies
This essay examines the Scottish poet and physician James Grainger's 1764 "West-India georgic," The Sugar-Cane, to chronicle the transformation of the plantation into an ecologically-unique site for experimentation, produced through material processes and imaginaries of British enclosure in the West Indies. Through its cataloguing of Caribbean diseases, natural remedies, and oblique references to medical experiments on the enslaved, The Sugar-Can…
Disappointment in the Archives of Black Freedom
This article uses a collection of African American women's friendship albums held at the Library Company of Philadelphia to reflect on scholarly resistance to reading disappointment, and negativity more generally, in the archives of black freedom. Rather than viewing these artifacts as expressions of black women's freedom in antebellum Philadelphia, the author reads them as documents that register the many disappointments of freedom, especially f…
Framing Finance
This essay provides a framework for the literary analysis of financialization during the period recently termed "the long 1970s" and contributes to recent historical scholarship on the rise of finance and economic crises by focusing on literary forms of popular resistance that also flourished during this period of acute crisis. The authors concentrate on two conditions undergirding financialization: the intensified dispossession of people of colo…
Delany's Comet
This essay excavates a genealogy of speculative engagements with natural science among African American writers and intellectuals during the antebellum period. Focusing on Frederick Douglass's 1854 speech on ethnology and Martin Delany's 1859-62 serial novel Blake; or, the Huts of America , it chronicles how black cultural actors turned to the many fields of natural science not only to critique racist science but also to produce a rich speculativ…
The Science of Freedom
The history of American racial science shares an important genealogy with the history of performance. Throughout the antebellum period, the popular stage routinely doubled as a scientific laboratory, where theories of race were produced and disseminated to a mass audience. Operating in the same cultural milieu and in many cases, on the same performance circuits as race scientists, quack doctors, and scientific showmen with questionable credential…
Theaters of Madness
Book Review| March 01 2010 Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture; Popular Print and Popular Medicine: Almanacs and Health Advice in Early America Britt Rusert Britt Rusert Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 188–190. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-076 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Britt Rusert; Theaters…
A Study in Nature”
Remodeling the Nation
Book Review| December 01 2008 Remodeling the Nation: The Architecture of American Identity, 1776–1858; American Architects and Their Books, 1840–1915 Britt Rusert Britt Rusert Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 838–840. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-043 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Britt Rusert; Remodeling the Nation: The Architecture of…
Technophobia! Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology; Color Monitors
Book Review| September 01 2007 Technophobia! Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology; Color Monitors: The Black Face of Technology in America Britt M. Rusert Britt M. Rusert Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 630–632. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-032 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Britt M. Rusert; Technoph…
Plantation Ecologies
This essay examines the Scottish poet and physician James Grainger's 1764 "West-India georgic," The Sugar-Cane, to chronicle the transformation of the plantation into an ecologically-unique site for experimentation, produced through material processes and imaginaries of British enclosure in the West Indies. Through its cataloguing of Caribbean diseases, natural remedies, and oblique references to medical experiments on the enslaved, The Sugar-Can…
Delany's Comet
This essay excavates a genealogy of speculative engagements with natural science among African American writers and intellectuals during the antebellum period. Focusing on Frederick Douglass's 1854 speech on ethnology and Martin Delany's 1859-62 serial novel Blake; or, the Huts of America , it chronicles how black cultural actors turned to the many fields of natural science not only to critique racist science but also to produce a rich speculativ…
Disappointment in the Archives of Black Freedom
This article uses a collection of African American women's friendship albums held at the Library Company of Philadelphia to reflect on scholarly resistance to reading disappointment, and negativity more generally, in the archives of black freedom. Rather than viewing these artifacts as expressions of black women's freedom in antebellum Philadelphia, the author reads them as documents that register the many disappointments of freedom, especially f…
The Science of Freedom
The history of American racial science shares an important genealogy with the history of performance. Throughout the antebellum period, the popular stage routinely doubled as a scientific laboratory, where theories of race were produced and disseminated to a mass audience. Operating in the same cultural milieu and in many cases, on the same performance circuits as race scientists, quack doctors, and scientific showmen with questionable credential…
Framing Finance
This essay provides a framework for the literary analysis of financialization during the period recently termed "the long 1970s" and contributes to recent historical scholarship on the rise of finance and economic crises by focusing on literary forms of popular resistance that also flourished during this period of acute crisis. The authors concentrate on two conditions undergirding financialization: the intensified dispossession of people of colo…
Technophobia! Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology; Color Monitors
Book Review| September 01 2007 Technophobia! Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology; Color Monitors: The Black Face of Technology in America Britt M. Rusert Britt M. Rusert Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 630–632. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-032 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Britt M. Rusert; Technoph…
Remodeling the Nation
Book Review| December 01 2008 Remodeling the Nation: The Architecture of American Identity, 1776–1858; American Architects and Their Books, 1840–1915 Britt Rusert Britt Rusert Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 838–840. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-043 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Britt Rusert; Remodeling the Nation: The Architecture of…
A Study in Nature”
Theaters of Madness
Book Review| March 01 2010 Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture; Popular Print and Popular Medicine: Almanacs and Health Advice in Early America Britt Rusert Britt Rusert Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 188–190. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-076 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Britt Rusert; Theaters…
The Science of Freedom
The history of American racial science shares an important genealogy with the history of performance. Throughout the antebellum period, the popular stage routinely doubled as a scientific laboratory, where theories of race were produced and disseminated to a mass audience. Operating in the same cultural milieu and in many cases, on the same performance circuits as race scientists, quack doctors, and scientific showmen with questionable credential…
Delany's Comet
This essay excavates a genealogy of speculative engagements with natural science among African American writers and intellectuals during the antebellum period. Focusing on Frederick Douglass's 1854 speech on ethnology and Martin Delany's 1859-62 serial novel Blake; or, the Huts of America , it chronicles how black cultural actors turned to the many fields of natural science not only to critique racist science but also to produce a rich speculativ…
Framing Finance
This essay provides a framework for the literary analysis of financialization during the period recently termed "the long 1970s" and contributes to recent historical scholarship on the rise of finance and economic crises by focusing on literary forms of popular resistance that also flourished during this period of acute crisis. The authors concentrate on two conditions undergirding financialization: the intensified dispossession of people of colo…
Plantation Ecologies
This essay examines the Scottish poet and physician James Grainger's 1764 "West-India georgic," The Sugar-Cane, to chronicle the transformation of the plantation into an ecologically-unique site for experimentation, produced through material processes and imaginaries of British enclosure in the West Indies. Through its cataloguing of Caribbean diseases, natural remedies, and oblique references to medical experiments on the enslaved, The Sugar-Can…
Disappointment in the Archives of Black Freedom
This article uses a collection of African American women's friendship albums held at the Library Company of Philadelphia to reflect on scholarly resistance to reading disappointment, and negativity more generally, in the archives of black freedom. Rather than viewing these artifacts as expressions of black women's freedom in antebellum Philadelphia, the author reads them as documents that register the many disappointments of freedom, especially f…
Naturalizing Coercion
Naturalizing Coercion
Sex with the Environment
Book Review| October 01 2020 Sex with the Environment The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America. LaFleur, Greta. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. xii + 286 pp. Britt Rusert Britt Rusert Britt Rusert is associate professor of Afro-American Studies at UMass Amherst. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2020) 26 (4): 732–735. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-8618813 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share F…
In retrospect
Our contribution takes shape as reflections on Object Lessons (Wiegman, 2012) from the perspective of three scholars of race, gender and sexuality who were also graduate students of Robyn Wiegman in the mid-2000s at Duke University. All three of us took Introduction to Feminist Theory with her and all three of us received graduate certificates in Feminist Studies. Our educational and career trajectories also share this similarity: we received PhD…
The Matter of Black Living
Tales from Du Bois
Shadowing Forth Decay
By examining William J. Wilson’s 1859 “Afric-American Picture Gallery,” an experimental work that imagines the culture and history of the United States through an African American lens, this article demonstrates how Wilson challenged conventional art-historical narratives through his ekphrastic writing. Central to the authors’ analysis is Wilson’s radical depiction of Mount Vernon, which rejects the pastoral, idealized imagery common in nineteent…
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