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Milette Shamir

Milette Shamir is an Israeli scholar of 19th-century American literature and culture and vice president of Tel Aviv University.

born 1966Research on 19th-century American literatureFounding Tel Aviv's American studies programCo-editing Poetics TodayVice president of Tel Aviv University

Born: 20 April 1966, Jerusalem
Occupation: professor, academic staff, university teacher, academic administrator

Milette Shamir was born in 1966 in Jerusalem

Shamir was born in Jerusalem in 1966. Her father is Israel Prize laureate Shimon Shamir, who founded the Israeli Academic Center in Cairo and later served as ambassador to Egypt and Jordan. She went to high school in Jerusalem, in the United States and in Cairo.

She earned a B.A. at Tel Aviv University in 1989. At Brandeis University she completed an M.A. in 1992 and a Ph.D. in 1996, with a dissertation on domestic space and gender in antebellum fiction.

She joined Tel Aviv University and became a senior lecturer in 2003. She chaired the English department from 2006 to 2009, founded the American studies program and set up an international B.A. in liberal arts. From 2014 she served about 4 years as vice dean of the Faculty of Humanities.

In 2019 she became co-editor of the journal Poetics Today with Irene Tucker. In September 2020 she was appointed vice president of Tel Aviv University for international affairs. She is married with 2 sons.