David Rutledge is a literature professor at the University of New Orleans and the co-editor of the currently sold-out post-Katrina anthology Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans (Chin Music Press, 2006). The book release party at the Saturn Bar in February of 2006 was the most remarkable evening in his 11 years in New Orleans.
In 2010, he edited a follow-up to "Do You Know" entitled Where We Know: New Orleans as Home. In a review, Library Journal said Rutledge "shows himself, in an introduction both touching and sincere, to understand fully the city and its struggles, to love New Orleans for what it is and what it can be, what it means both to those who decided to stay and those who left.""
His book on Vladimir Nabokov will be published in 2011 by McFarland Press.