[4][2] Speaking of her parents, Ruti said, “I watched my mother wilt away tending a conveyer belt at a factory... and my father work harder—and sleep less and worry more—than anyone should ever be expected to.”[4][6] On long bus rides—it was more than 2 hours to the nearest school—she would read,[4] an intentional focus on education that would lead to her "ma[king] her way to the United States as a high school exchange student".
[2][4] Ruti was awarded scholarship to attend Brown University,[2] and moved to the United States at age 20,[6][2] graduating from there with a BA in 1988.
She also taught the annual graduate seminar on queer theory at The Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies (SDS).
[citation needed] Ruti described her research as addressing "questions of subjectivity, relationality, psychic life, desire, affect, power, agency, autonomy, creativity, oppression, social change, and contemporary ethics.
[2][5][12] The following are books the title subject listed on their faculty web page at the University of Toronto, as of November 2022:[1][8] Other works include: