Ruth Yeazell
Ruth Bernard Yeazell (born April 4, 1947) is an American literary critic.
She graduated from Swarthmore College in 1967, then attended Yale University.[1][2] Yeazell taught at the University of California, Los Angeles and Boston University before returning to Yale in 1991, where she was named the Chace Family Professor of English.[1][3] Yeazell was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1979,[4] and granted membership into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.[1] As of 2018, she is the Sterling Professor of English at Yale, the highest honor bestowed on Yale Faculty.[5]
She contributes to The Conversation,[6] The New York Review of Books,[7] and the London Review of Books.[8]
Her longtime partner Alexander Welsh also taught at UCLA and Yale.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Ruth Bernard Yeazell '67". Swarthmore College. Retrieved April 14, 2018.
- ^ Treisman, Rachel (March 30, 2017). "Faculty vote to diversify English major curriculum". Yale Daily News. Retrieved April 14, 2018.
- ^ "Ruth Yeazell: 1990 Distinguished Teaching Award". University of California, Los Angeles. Retrieved April 14, 2018.
- ^ "Ruth B. Yeazell". Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved April 14, 2018.
- ^ "Ruth Yeazell named as Sterling Professor of English". YaleNews. 2018-07-23. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
- ^ "Ruth Yeazell". The Conversation. Retrieved April 14, 2018.
- ^ "Ruth Bernard Yeazell". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved April 14, 2018.
- ^ "Ruth Bernard Yeazell". London Review of Books. Retrieved April 14, 2018.
- 1947 births
- Living people
- Swarthmore College alumni
- Yale University alumni
- Yale University faculty
- Yale Sterling Professors
- University of California, Los Angeles faculty
- Boston University faculty
- 20th-century philologists
- American philologists
- Women philologists
- 21st-century philologists
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences