Esther Schor, ex officio, on leave 2025-26

Chair, Humanities Council; Leonard L. Milberg '53 Professor of American Jewish Studies; Professor of English

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Esther Schor earned her BA in English and Music and Ph.D. in English from Yale, with a couple of years’ work in publishing in between. At Princeton, her courses revolve around two centers: British Romanticism; and Literature, Scripture and Religion. In the former circuit, recent courses include Xtreme Romanticism, Chameleons and Impostors in the Romantic Era, Romantic Poetry and Poetics, Romantic Historicism, Romantic Drama, and Travel Literature; courses in the latter include Confessions; Job, Literature and Modernity; Underworlds; and Bible, Criticism and Theory.

See Professor Schor’s full bio on the Humanities Council website.

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