Rate My Professor David Ruderman

Ruderman is the author of the monograph The Idea of Infancy in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry: Romanticism, Subjectivity, Form (Routledge, 2016). Selected publications include “Robert Frost’s Ambivalence: Borders and Boundaries in Poetic and Political Discourse,” co-authored with Ken Madsen (Political Geography 55, 2016), “The Breathing Space of Ballad: Tennyson’s Stillborn Poetics” (Victorian Poetry 47.1, 2009), “Romantic Objects in Coleridge and Erasmus Darwin” (Prism(s): Essays in Romanticism 16, 2008), and the chapter “Reforming the Child: Infancy and the Reception of Wordsworth’s Ode” in Romanticism and Parenting: Image, Instruction and Ideology (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007). He has earned awards including co-winner of the NASSR/Romantic Circles Pedagogy Course Contest (2013), Fellow with the American Psychoanalytic Association (2008/09), Rackham Humanities Research Fellowship (University of Michigan, 2006-2007), Mezger Prize for best graduate student essay from the International Conference on Romanticism (2007), and Rackham One-term Fellowship (2008). Ruderman has presented widely at conferences including NASSR, International Conference on Romanticism, Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, and Coleridge Summer Conference. At Ohio State, he teaches courses on British literature from 1800, Romantic repetitions, monstrosity and humanism, and creative writing; leads the community poetry workshop “Writing and Rewriting the Self” for individuals in recovery from addiction; participates in the Ohio Prison Education Exchange Project; and was selected for the 2024-25 Society of Fellows Faculty Cohort.