Neil Leon Rudenstine (born
January 21,
1935) is a
U.S. educator, literary scholar, and administrator. Rudenstine grew up in
Danbury, Connecticut, where he attended the
Wooster School on a scholarship. He is an
Episcopalian of partly
Jewish descent
[1]. He studied the humanities at
Princeton University (
A.B. 1956) and later attended
New College, Oxford, as a
Rhodes Scholar, where he received another B.A. and an M.A. In 1964, he received a
Ph.D. in English literature from
Harvard University. His dissertation, directed by
Douglas Bush, was on the poetic development of Sir
Philip Sidney.
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