Naomi Schor (October 10, 1943 in New York City – December 2, 2001 in New Haven, Connecticut[1] ) was an American literary critic and theorist.

Naomi Schor’s first language was French,[1] and she went to the Lycée Français de New York[1] where she received her Baccalauréat in 1961, the same year, sadly, that her father died.

[1] She wrote about canonical authors such as Émile Zola, Gustave Flaubert,[1] Marcel Proust, Honoré de Balzac, re-examining their work through the double lens of the male-authored theoretical discourse of Jacques Derrida (whom she knew personally),[1] Roland Barthes, and Jacques Lacan, and that of French feminist theoreticians such as Julia Kristeva, Hélène Cixous, and Luce Irigaray.

With Carolyn Burke and Margaret Whitford, she edited Engaging with Irigaray, which included essays by Rosi Braidotti, Elizabeth Weed, and Judith Butler.

In this classic 1987[1] work of aesthetic and feminist theory, available in a 2006 paperback edition, Schor provided new ways of thinking about the gendering of details and ornament[1] in literature, art, and architecture.