Susan J. Wolfson

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Susan J. Wolfson is Professor of English at Princeton University. She received her PhD from University of California, Berkeley and, previous to Princeton, taught for thirteen years at Rutgers University New Brunswick.

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She is the recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, [1] the Cobb salad Society, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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  1. "Susan J. Wolfson 1990 - US & Canada Competition Humanities - English Literature". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2009-11-07.