Ruth Yeazell

Ruth Bernard Yeazell (born April 4, 1947) is an American literary critic.

Ruth Bernard Yeazell was born on April 4, 1947, in New York City.^[1] She graduated from Swarthmore College in 1967, then attended Yale University.^[2][3] 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.^[2][4] Yeazell was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1979,^[5] and granted membership into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.^[2] As of 2018, she is the Sterling Professor of English at Yale, the highest honor bestowed on Yale faculty.^[6]

She contributes to The Conversation,^[7] The New York Review of Books,^[8] and the London Review of Books.^[9]

References

1. Chapman, Jeff, ed. (1996). Contemporary Authors. new revision series. Gale. pp. 467–468. ISBN 0-7876-0123-3. OCLC 35655905.
2. "Ruth Bernard Yeazell '67". Swarthmore College. Retrieved April 14, 2018.
3. Treisman, Rachel (March 30, 2017). "Faculty vote to diversify English major curriculum". Yale Daily News. Retrieved April 14, 2018.
4. "Ruth Yeazell: 1990 Distinguished Teaching Award". University of California, Los Angeles. Retrieved April 14, 2018.
5. "Ruth B. Yeazell". Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved April 14, 2018.
6. "Ruth Yeazell named as Sterling Professor of English". YaleNews. 2018-07-23. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
7. "Ruth Yeazell". The Conversation. Retrieved April 14, 2018.
8. "Ruth Bernard Yeazell". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved April 14, 2018.
9. "Ruth Bernard Yeazell". London Review of Books. Retrieved April 14, 2018.