Tom Cohen
ProfessorPh.D., Yale University
Literary, Cultural and Media
Studies
Humanities 316
442-4091
tomcohen13@aol.com
Literary and media studies; philosophical and cultural theory; cinema; American literary and cultural studies; travel; aesthetics
Professional Activities2003 Fulbright Distinguished Visiting Professor, Thailand
1998- Professor of American Literary, Cultural and Media studies, Department of English, University at Albany, S.U.N.Y.
1998-2000 Chair, Department of English, University at Albany
1998-2000 Chair, Division on Philosophical Approaches to Literature, MLA
1998, April Co-Director, "Materiality and Culture" Conference, UC Davis
1996-98 Co-Director, Program in Literary Studies and Cultural Theory, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
BooksAnti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock
(Cambridge UP, 1994)
Ideology and Inscription: "Cultural Studies" after Benjamin, de Man, and Bakhtin (Cambridge UP, 1998)
Material Events: Paul de Man and the Afterlife of Theory, Contributing Editor (University of Minnesota Press, 2000)
Jacques Derrida and the Humanities: a Transdisciplinary Reader, Contributing Editor (Cambridge UP, 2002)
Hitchcock's Cryptonymies 1: Secret Agents (University of Minnesota Press, 2005)
Hitchcock's Cryptonymies 2: War Machines (University of Minnesota Press, 2005)
Recent ArticlesSula and the Allegory of Blackness, Parallax (Fall, 2002).
J., or Black Holes, Journal for Cultural Research (April 2004).
Climate Change in the Aesthetic State, (a Memory (Dis)Order), Parallax 32 (Fall, 2004).
Grand Central, Comparative Literature (forthcoming).
Zarathustran Birds: Hitchcock's 'Nietzsche,' in Neitzsche and the Genealogy of Media, ed. Laurence Rickels (forthcoming)
Elizabeth Bishop and the Post-Human, in The Art of Elizabeth Bishop, eds. Almeida, Sandra, Glaucia Gonçalves and Eliana Reis (Belo Horizonte: Editora UFMG/CNP, 2001).
How Old is Mae West? in Women and Social Justice, ed.Amporn Srisermbhok (Bangkok: 2002).
Female Female Impersonation in Hitchcock, in New Feminist Perspectives, ed. Almeida, Sandra (Belo Horizonte: Editora UFMG/CNP, 2002).
Ante: Derrida and the Future of. . . , in Jacques Derrida and the Humanities, ed. Tom Cohen (Cambridge UP, 2002).
After Materiality. . . , in 21st Century Criticism, ed. J. Wolfreys (University of Edinburgh Press, 2003).
Trackings: the (De)Faulting of the Other, in Narrative Acts: On the Work of J. Hillis Miller, eds. C. Jacobs and H. Sussman (Stanford UP, 2003).
Flaneur of the Archive, in Hillis Miller Reader, ed. J. Wolfreys (Stanford UP, 2005).
Spellbound--Spectrography in Cinema, in Spectral Criticism, ed. J. Wolfreys (S.U.N.Y. Press, 2005).
Hillis le MalBlack Holes, in Justices, ed. B, L. Cohen (Fordham UP, 2005).
Works in ProgressBook length study of the race and representation in Faulkner, titled Catafalque
Collected essays on “material” strategies of reading and cognition
Collected essays an cultural "travel" and globalization
Book on tele-technic figures and contemporary cinema
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