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
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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 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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