Dr. Hilary Schor

Biography

Hilary Schor is a Professor at the USC Gould School of Law with joint appointments in the Department of English and the Department of Comparative Literature. She has been a member of the USC faculty since 1986 and has served as the past director of the USC Center for Law, History, and Culture. Her scholarship primarily focuses on narrative theory, the intersections of law and property, nature, subjectivity, and literature, alongside the study of popular culture and film. Schor's research interests include women and realism, and she actively participates in the UC Dickens Project, organizing graduate seminars and conferences on topics such as 'Victorian Soundings' and 'Victorian Terror.' She has published several influential works, including 'Scheherezade Marketplace: Elizabeth Gaskell's Victorian Novel' (Oxford, 1992) and 'Dickens's Daughter House' (Cambridge, 1999), and has contributed essays to numerous books on Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and Victorian literature and culture. Her academic background includes a BA in British and American literature from Scripps College and an MA and PhD from Stanford University, concentrating on Victorian literature and culture, anchored in intellectual history, feminist studies, and the history of the novel. Schor has been awarded several fellowships, including the Zumberge Faculty Research Fellowship at USC and a Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

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