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]