By 1949 she taught at Sarah Lawrence College, impacting many women writers.
In 1949, Muriel Rukeyser became a pivotal educator in literature and writing at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. Her presence there fostered the intellectual and artistic growth of countless women students, nurturing emerging talents in a postwar period marked by substantial shifts in cultural and gender dynamics. Her contributions at Sarah Lawrence strengthened not only the college’s cultural fabric but also the broader landscape of American literary education.