Mari Ruti is professor of Critical Theory at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada known for her work on love.Ruti got her B.A. from Brown University and her M.A. from Harvard University. She studied psychoanalytic theory with Julia Kristeva at University of Paris. and received her Ph.D. at Harvard University, where she then for four years served as Assistant Director of the program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.