Charles Ruas
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Charles Ruas, b 1938, Tientsin, China, is an American author and intellectual, particularly known for his work as an interviewer, literary and art critic, and translator.[1]
A graduate of Princeton University, Ruas, a Fulbright Scholar,[2] is a specialist in French, English, and Comparative Literature, which he has taught at universities in the United States, France, and China.
Ruas was for a time in the late 1970s Chairman of the Drama and Literature Department of WBAI, where, amongst others, Susan Howe was also active.
He has also produced arts and literature programming for PS1.
Ruas has been a frequent contributor to ArtNews and Art in America.[3]
Ruas currently lives and works in New York City.
[edit] Works
Conversations with American Writers – Charles Ruas. Knopf, 1985, ISBN 9780394527871
Death and the Labyrinth – Michel Foucalt. John Ashbery (Introduction), James Faubion (Editor), Charles Ruas (Translator). Doubleday, 1986, ISBN 9780385278546 / Continuum, 2007, ISBN 9780826493620
Artful Life: The Biography of D.H. Kahweiler – Pierre Assouline. Charles Ruas (Translator). Grove/Atlantic, 1990, ISBN 9780802112279
Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs – Marguerite Young. Charles Ruas (Editor). Knopf, 1999, ISBN 9780679427575
Grace: An American Woman in China, 1934–1974 – Eleanor McCallie Cooper, William Liu. Charles Ruas (Introduction). Soho Press, 2003, ISBN 9781569473504
