Join us for an afternoon with Sarah Ruhl
September 24
3:30–4:30 p.m.
CASE Auditorium
Who has changed the way you understand yourself or the world around you? Join Sarah Ruhl, author of this year’s Buffs One Read selection, Lessons from My Teachers, for a conversation about how we learn from one another, the circumstances that change us and how we continue to grow throughout our lives.
Are you a first-year or transfer student? Get your complimentary copy of Lessons from My Teachers at One Read programming events or the bookstore.
Based on her popular class at Yale, Lessons from My Teachers is anchored in stories both personal and universal, drawing on Ruhl’s experiences with her parents and children, with schoolteachers, creative influences and beyond. Lessons from My Teachers reflects on the people we learn from throughout our lives—and the unexpected ways we become teachers to others.
The book reveals Ruhl's tremendous gratitude for her teachers and how she lives her life oriented as “a student in the world.” Her talk promises to inspire similar memories of the teachers who've shaped our lives.
About Sarah Ruhl
Sarah Ruhl is an award-winning playwright, author, essayist and professor whose work has been
produced on Broadway, across the United States and internationally, and translated into 14 languages. A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she teaches at the Yale School of Drama and is the author of this year’s Buffs One Read selection, Lessons from My Teachers.
About Buffs One Read
CU Boulder’s Buffs One Read fosters intellectual community and cultural exchange among students, faculty and staff. The campus reading program selects a shared book each year as a foundation for classroom discussion, public programming, personal reflection and connection across the university. This year’s theme is Interdependence and Humanity.