Sarah Ruden | |
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater |
University of Michigan B.A. Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, M.A. Harvard University, Ph.D. (Classical Philology) |
Awards | 1996 Central News Agency Literary Award for book of poems, Other Places |
Website | SarahRuden.com |
Sarah Elizabeth Ruden is an American writer of poetry, essays, translations of Classic literature, and popularizations of Biblical philology, religious criticism and interpretation. [1] [2]
Sarah Ruden was born in Ohio in 1962 and raised in the United Methodist Church. [3] She holds an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and a Ph.D. in Classical Philology from Harvard University. [4]
In addition to her academic appointments, Ruden has worked as a medical editor, a contributor to American periodicals, [5] and a stringer for the South African investigative magazine noseweek. [6]
Ruden became an activist Quaker during her ten years spent in post-apartheid South Africa, where she was a tutor for the South African Education and Environment Project. [7] [8] Both before and after her return to the United States in 2005, Ruden has engaged in ecumenical outreach and published a number of articles and essays, in both liberal and conservative publications. [9] [10]
She was a lecturer in Classics at the University of Cape Town. In 2016, she was awarded a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant to complete her translation of The Confessions of Augustine (2017). [11]
She is an advocate for the popularization of ancient texts. [12]
Ruden has been a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania since 2018. [13]
In 2010, Ruden was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to fund her translation of the Oresteia of Aeschylus. [14] She won a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant to complete her translation of The Confessions of Augustine in 2016. [15] Her translation of the Gospels was funded in part by a Robert B. Silvers Grant for Work in Progress in 2019. [16]
Ruden has been a “convinced Friend,” or Quaker convert, since 1992. Her Quakerism informs her translation methodology. [17] [18] [19]
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Sarah Ruden | |
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater |
University of Michigan B.A. Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, M.A. Harvard University, Ph.D. (Classical Philology) |
Awards | 1996 Central News Agency Literary Award for book of poems, Other Places |
Website | SarahRuden.com |
Sarah Elizabeth Ruden is an American writer of poetry, essays, translations of Classic literature, and popularizations of Biblical philology, religious criticism and interpretation. [1] [2]
Sarah Ruden was born in Ohio in 1962 and raised in the United Methodist Church. [3] She holds an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and a Ph.D. in Classical Philology from Harvard University. [4]
In addition to her academic appointments, Ruden has worked as a medical editor, a contributor to American periodicals, [5] and a stringer for the South African investigative magazine noseweek. [6]
Ruden became an activist Quaker during her ten years spent in post-apartheid South Africa, where she was a tutor for the South African Education and Environment Project. [7] [8] Both before and after her return to the United States in 2005, Ruden has engaged in ecumenical outreach and published a number of articles and essays, in both liberal and conservative publications. [9] [10]
She was a lecturer in Classics at the University of Cape Town. In 2016, she was awarded a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant to complete her translation of The Confessions of Augustine (2017). [11]
She is an advocate for the popularization of ancient texts. [12]
Ruden has been a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania since 2018. [13]
In 2010, Ruden was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to fund her translation of the Oresteia of Aeschylus. [14] She won a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant to complete her translation of The Confessions of Augustine in 2016. [15] Her translation of the Gospels was funded in part by a Robert B. Silvers Grant for Work in Progress in 2019. [16]
Ruden has been a “convinced Friend,” or Quaker convert, since 1992. Her Quakerism informs her translation methodology. [17] [18] [19]
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