Debora Kuller Shuger

Debora Kuller Shuger (born December 15, 1953) is a literary historian and scholar. She studies early modern, Renaissance, late 16th- and 17th century England. She writes about Tudor-Stuart literature; religious, political, and legal thought; neo-Latin; and censorship of that period.

Shuger was born in Stuyvesant Town in Manhattan. Before her first birthday, her family moved to Rye, New York, where she lived until 3rd grade, when the family moved again, this time to Armonk, New York. During high school, she would slip away to attend classes at the Horace Mann School in the Bronx, which was then all male. She entered Carleton College as a freshman, married, and moved with her husband to Vanderbilt University, where she earned her B.A. (summa cum laude, 1975), M.A. (1978), and M.A.T. (1978). She earned her PhD from Stanford University (1983). Shuger taught at the University of Michigan and the University of Arkansas before moving to UCLA, where she has been since 1989.

While in college, Shuger married Scott Shuger, who created the popular Today's Papers column for Slate.com. Scott died in 2002. They had one daughter, Dale, who has worked as an actress and now teaches in the Spanish Department at Tulane. Debora Shuger is domestically partnered to Russ Abbott.

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