External Humanities Fellow

Britt Rusert, Ph.D., English, Duke University

CHAT External Humanities Fellow and Assistant Professor in the College.  Britt Rusert received her Ph.D. in English and graduate certificate in Women’s Studies from Duke University in 2009.  Her research focuses on American literature of the long nineteenth century, African American literature, race and slavery in the Atlantic World, the history of science, and critical theory.  She comes to CHAT from the Center for Genome Ethics, Law & Policy at Duke University, where she was a postdoctoral associate.  She is currently completing a book manuscript entitled Radical Empiricism: Fugitive Science and American Literature, 1776-1865, a study of the relationship between minor science, literature, and emancipatory struggles during the early national and antebellum period.