Ruth Salvaggio
Professor of English & Comp Literature (3225); Adjunct Professor of American Studies (3226)
423 Greenlaw
Campus Box 3520
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520
919-962-1681 (phone)
919-962-3520 (fax)
salvaggi@email.unc.edu
Ph.D. Rice University, 1979
Research Interests
Ruth Salvaggio’s current teaching and writing are broadly based in poetry, feminist theory, and the literature and history of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Currently she is working on uncovering and studying song and poetry of early Atlantic contact cultures—especially along the eastern and gulf coasts of the North America and in the Caribbean, and in extending studies of poetic contact to include the environment. She has just completed a book entitled Hearing Sappho in New Orleans, which follows poetic migrations along the path of the African slave trade and tracks them through ancient fragments set in a flooded city.