office: 201 Tate phone: 573-882-9729 email: cohenss@missouri.edu web:
web.missouri.edu/~cohenss/ office hours: W 2-3, Th 3:30-4:30,
and by appointment
Research and teaching areas:
Twentieth-Century American literature;
literary and cultural criticism and theory
Samuel Cohen
Samuel Cohen teaches courses in twentieth-century American literature and literary theory.
He is the author of
After the End of History: American Fiction in the 1990s (University of Iowa Press, 2009)
and 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology, second edition (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2006), and
coauthor of a literature anthology, Literature: The Human Experience, tenth edition
(Bedford/St. Martin's, 2009). In 2008, he was awarded the Provost's Outstanding Junior Faculty
Teaching Award.
Education
PhD 2003, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
Samuel Cohen. Literature: The Human Experience, 10th ed., ed. Richard Abcarian, Marvin Klotz, Samuel Cohen (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. 50 Essays, 2nd ed. 2006.
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 4996: Honors Seminar: Historicism
English 8001: Topics: Job Placement Workshop
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
Selected Awards
Provost's Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award
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