In addition to her academic appointments, Ruden has worked as a medical editor, a contributor to American periodicals,[6] and a stringer for the South African investigative magazine Noseweek.[7]
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.[8][9] 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.[10][11]
Career
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).[12]
She is an advocate for the popularization of ancient texts.[13]
In 2010, Ruden was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to fund her translation of the Oresteia of Aeschylus.[15] She won a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant to complete her translation of The Confessions of Augustine in 2016.[16] Her translation of the Gospels was funded in part by a Robert B. Silvers Grant for Work in Progress in 2019.[17]
Personal life
Ruden has been a “convinced Friend,” or Quaker convert, since 1992. Her Quakerism informs her translation methodology.[18][19][20]
Plato (2015). Hippias Minor or The Art of Cunning: A new translation of Plato’s most controversial dialogue (trans.). With introduction and artwork by Paul Chan; essay by Richard Fletcher. Badlands Unlimited and the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art.[29]
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