Prof. William Kolbrener

Professor of English and author, Chair - Department of English, Bar Ilan University

William Kolbrener, professor of English Literature at Bar Ilan University, earned his MA from Oxford and his PhD from Columbia University. He is the author of books on the eighteenth-century British proto-feminist Mary Astell, as well as John Milton, the author of Paradise Lost. He has also written The Last Rabbi on Joseph Soloveitchik, and a collection of personal essays, Open Minded Torah. His Literature and the Sacred: God and Reading in a Time of Pandemic is forthcoming.