Spooky And Kooky Penn Professors

In honor of Halloweekend, here are our picks for the OOKIEST profs on campus. You still have time to switch in to their classes for Spring 2014!

Eric Schneider (Urban Studies)

Known for his brutal, unflinching honesty when it comes to those thesis drafts you crank out when you're half-asleep the night before the due date, Schneider is also currently writing a seminal HISTORY OF MURDER. He is, as he admits publicly without shame, obsessed with murder.

Janet Monge (Anthropology)

Under that shock of gray-white hair is a big ol' brain, and students love Monge for her engaging teaching as much as they do her hilarious anecdotes and recurring malaria. It just gets spookier: Almost every photo of her on the internet includes hUmAn ReMaInS!

Warren Ewens (Statistics)

Ewens doesn't have anything justifiably spooky about him, but all his students agree he's spooky as they come. Just look at that crazed expression; he looks like someone about to inject your brain with an Ivy League-standard statistics education.

Gomaa Omar (Geology)

In addition to referring to all his pupils as "little creeps," this rock jock loves to remind us all that we'll all eventually die. At which point, if his maniacal laughter is any indication, he will absorb our petrified souls.

Know a creepy, kooky, mysterious, spooky, or all-together ooky professor that's not on this list? (We know you do.) Shoot 'em to us in the comments!