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English language educator emeritus

Ruth apRoberts, English language educator emeritus. Guggenheim fellow, 1978-1979. Member Modern Language Association, International Association University Professors of English, Association Literature Scholars and Critics.

Background

ApRoberts, Ruth was born on November 14, 1919 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Came to the United States, 1945. Daughter of Bradford Willard and Mary Lizetta (Cobbe) Heyer.

Education

After raising her four children, she received her Doctor of Philosophy in English from University of California, Los Los Angeles She was the widow of Robert apRoberts, a scholar of Welsh descent who taught medieval literature at California State University in Northridge.

Career

Her work focused on 19th-century British literature as it intersected with philosophical issues and spiritual traditions. Born as Ruth Heyer in 1919 in Vancouver, British Columbia, she received her bachelor"s degree from the University of British Columbia and her master"s degree from University of California Berkeley. At the University of California in Riverside, Ruth apRoberts held the positions of Graduate Advisor and Chair of the English Department.

She taught courses in Victorian literature, the Aesthetic Movement, and the Bible as literature.

She held a Guggenheim Fellowship (1978-1979). She was awarded the UCR Distinguished Teaching Award in 1977, and the Distinguished Emeritus Award in 1995.

She was the author of four books: The Moral Trollope (1971), which explored the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of the novels of Anthony Trollope. Arnold and God (1983) which probed the anti-literal understandings of religion that permeate all of Matthew Arnold"s poetry and social criticism.

The Ancient Dialect (1988) which analyzed the writing of Thomas Carlyle in relation to the study of comparative religions.

And The Biblical Web (1994) which provided a purely literary analysis of the Christian Bible and the Hebrew Torah, focusing on the resonances and influence of their language. At the time of her death, Katherine Klux Kinney, chair of the Department of English at University of California Riverside had this to say: "Ruth apRoberts helped shape the intellectual culture of our department.

Achievements

  • Ruth ApRoberts has been listed as a noteworthy English language educator emeritus by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Modern Language Association, International Association University Professors of English, Association Literature Scholars and Critics.

Personality

She was a generous colleague and committed teacher whose passion for literature and intellectual inquiry exemplified our shared mission.".

Connections

Married Robert P. apRoberts, June 11, 1941. Children: Mary Garnett, Lucy Harriett, Alison Heyer, Gwilym Evan Bradford.

Father:
Bradford Willard Heyer

Mother:
Mary Lizetta (Cobbe) Heyer

Spouse:
Robert P. apRoberts

child:
Lucy Harriett apRoberts

child:
Alison Heyer apRoberts

child:
Mary Garnett apRoberts

child:
Gwilym Evan Bradford apRoberts