office: 333 Tate phone: 573-882-9729 email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. web: web.missouri.edu/~cohenss/ office hours: T 2-4, W 2-3, and by appointment Research and teaching areas: Twentieth-Century American literature; literary and cultural criticism and theory

Samuel Cohen teaches courses in twentieth- and twenty-first century American literature and culture. He is the author of After the End of History: American Fiction in the 1990s (University of Iowa Press, 2009), coeditor (with Lee Konstantinou) of The Legacy of David Foster Wallace (University of Iowa Press, 2012), and Series Editor of The New American Caon: The Iowa Series in Contemporary Literature and Culture. He is also author of 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology, third edition (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2010) and coauthor of a literature anthology, Literature: The Human Experience, tenth edition (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2009). He has received the Gold Chalk Award from the Graduate Professional Council, the Graduate Student Association Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award, the English Graduate Student Association Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award, and the Provost's Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award.

Education

PhD 2003, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York

Selected Publications

• Samuel Cohen and Lee Konstantinou. The Legacy of David Foster Wallace University of Iowa Press (forthcoming May 2012)
• Samuel Cohen. After the End of History: American Fiction in the 1990s. University of Iowa Press, 2009.
• Samuel Cohen. 50 Essays, 3rd ed.  (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's), 2010.
• Samuel Cohen, Richard Abcarian, Marvin Klotz. Literature: The Human Experience, 10th ed. (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's), 2009.
• Samuel Cohen. "The Novel in a Time of Terror: Middlesex, History, and Contemporary American Fiction." Twentieth-Century Literature special issue, "After Postmodernism," 53.3 (Forthcoming, Fall 2007).
• Samuel Cohen. "Triumph and Trauma: In the Lake of the Woods and History." Clio: Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 36.2 (Spring 2007).
• Samuel Cohen. "Mason & Dixon & the Ampersand." Twentieth-Century Literature 48.3 (Fall 2002).
• Samuel Cohen. "Tinkering toward WAC Utopia." Journal of Basic Writing 21.2 (Fall 2002).

Courses Taught

• English 2000: Studies in English: Global History/World Fiction
• English 2000: Topics in English Studies: The Problem of Evil
• English 2009: Studies in English, 1890 to Present: The Cold War in American Literature and Culture
• English 3310: Survey of American Literature, 1865-present
• English 4109/7109: Genres: Experimental Fiction
• English 4320/7320: 20th Century American Literature: The Reality Effect
• English 4320/7320: Studies in 20th Century American Literature: Historical Trauma in Post-WWII American Literature
• English 4320/7320: Studies in 20th Century American Literature: Philip Roth
• English 4970, Capstone: History in Contemporary Fiction
• English 4970, Capstone: History, Trauma, Writing
• English 4996: Honors Seminar: Historicism
• English 4996: Self-Reflexive Literature
• English 8001: Topics: Job Placement Workshop
• English 8005: Introduction to Graduate Study
• English 8050: Contemporary Critical Approaches
• English 8060, Seminar in Criticism and Theory: Theory of the Novel
• English 8320: Studies in 20th Century Literature: Contemporary American Fiction and the Metafictional Impulse
• English 8320: Studies in 20th Century Literature: Political Fictions
• English 8320: Philip Roth and the History of the Novel
• English 8320: Studies in 20th Century Literature: Contemporary American Fiction and the Anxiety of Influence

Selected Awards

• Gold Chalk Award, Graduate Professional Council, 2011
• Graduate Student Association Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award, 2011
• English Graduate Student Association Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award, 2011
• Provost's Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award, 2008