"I think she's a superb scholar and writer, awonderful thinker about literature and all of theissues facing literary scholarship, and I'm goingto miss her very much," said Professor of RomanceLanguages and Literatures Mary Gaylord.
Christopher Miller, who directs Yale's Frenchdepartment, told the Yale Daily News that"Professor Schor is one of the two or three mostauthoritative and influential voices in theinterpretation of 19-century French literature."
Schor's first book, Zola's Crowds, waspublished in 1978.
She has edited numerous books about feminismand post-modernism, including 1997's MoreGender Trouble: Feminism Meets Queer Theory.
Suleiman said Schor's departure would leave avoid in the department.
"As much as we hate to lose her, no one in theworld is ever totally irreplaceable," she said."So, of course, we, will find a very distinguishedperson to teach the French 19th century.