Rebecka Rutledge Fisher
Rebecka Rutledge Fisher, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of English and Comparative Literature
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Selected Publications
Books
Habitations of the Veil: The Poetics of Black Being before and
after Du Bois. 479 pages. SUNY Press, 2014.
Retrieving the Human: Reading Paul Gilroy. 375 pages. Ed. Rebecka
Rutledge Fisher and Jay Garcia. With a new essay by Paul Gilroy and
a critical introduction by the editors. SUNY Press, 2014.
The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa,
the African. Written by Himself. 242 pages. Selected, introduced,
and annotated by Rebecka Rutledge Fisher. New York: Barnes &
Noble Publishing, December 2005.
Refereed papers, articles, and book chapters
Rebecka Rutledge Fisher. “The Poetics of Belonging in the Age of
Enlightenment: Metaphors of Being in Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting
Narrative.” 20 pages. Forthcoming in Early American Studies 11.1
(Winter 2013).
Rebecka Rutledge Fisher. “Between the Law and Black Being: W.E.B.
Du Bois, Black Reconstruction, and the Radical Aesthetics of
Metaphor.” 25 pages. Forthcoming in The South Atlantic Quarterly
(SAQ), 2012.
Rebecka Rutledge Fisher. “Cultural Artifacts and the Narrative of
History: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Exhibiting of Culture at the 1900
Paris Exposition Universelle.” Reprint. 33 pages. Paris, Modern
Fiction, and the Black Atlantic. Eds. Jonathan Eburne and Jeremy
Braddock. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
Rebecka Rutledge Fisher. “Habitations of the Veil: Two Instances of
Autobiography.” 22 pages. Forthcoming in Criticism, 2012. Special
issue on W.E.B. Du Bois.
Rebecka Rutledge Fisher. “Symbolic Wrights: The Poetics of Being
Underground.” 51 pages. Obsidian: Literature in the African
Diaspora 11.2 (Fall/Winter 2010).
Rebecka Rutledge Fisher. “Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.” 36 pages.
Student’s Encyclopedia of Great American Writers. Vol. 3. New York:
Facts on File, 2010.
Rebecka Rutledge Fisher. “Remnants of Memory: Testimony and Being
in Sketches of Southern Life.” In ESQ: A Journal of the American
Renaissance 54.1-4 (2008): 55-74.
Rebecka Rutledge Fisher. “The Anatomy of a Symbol: Reading W.E.B.
Du Bois’s Dark Princess: A Romance.” CR: The New Centennial Review
6.3 (2006): 91-128.
Rebecka Rutledge Fisher. “Cultural Artifacts and the Narrative of
History: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Exhibiting of Culture at the 1900
Paris Exposition Universelle.” Modern Fiction Studies 51.4 (2005):
741-774.
Rebecka R. Rutledge. “Metaphoric Black Bodies in the Hinterlands of
Race; Or, Towards Deciphering the Du Boisian Concept of Race and
Nation in ‘The Conservation of Races.’” Race and Ethnicity: Across
Time and Space. Ed. Rodney D. Coates. Leiden: Brill Publishers,
2004: 331-349. Selected as a Choice Outstanding Book for
2004.
