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.