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Associate professor Britt Rusert has taken what some would consider a circuitous route to her faculty position in the UMass Amherst W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies. A published scholar of black literature and culture, Rusert’s first love was biology, which she hoped would lead her to medical school. An unfortunate (or fortunate as it may be) turn of events led her down a very different road. Says Rusert, “I decided not to go on to medical school after I passed out from seeing blood while I was doing an internship at a local hospital. I thought, ‘I need a different career path.’”  While Rusert was working on her biology degree she was also pursuing an English major and specializing in LGTBQ literature and queer theory.  See full article here.