Tom Cohen

Tom Cohen
Born
Tom Dana Cohen

(1953-08-13) August 13, 1953 (age 71)
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Chicago (MA)
Yale University (PhD)
OccupationCultural theorist

Tom Dana Cohen (born August 13, 1953)[1] is an American media and cultural theorist, currently a professor at the University at Albany, State University of New York.[2] He has published books on film studies, comparative literature, theory, cultural studies, Alfred Hitchcock,[3] and Paul de Man.[4] Cohen has also published broadly on American authors and ideology, including Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Mikhail Bakhtin, William Faulkner and pragmatism, as well as on Alfred Hitchcock, Greek philosophy and continental philosophy.[5]

He is the editor (with Claire Colebrook) of the Critical Climate Change Book Series at Open Humanities Press[6] and has lectured and taught internationally, including in China and Fulbright sponsored work in Thailand. He has been awarded a Distinguished Visiting Professorship by Shanghai Municipality in Shanghai.

  1. ^ "Cohen, Tom, 1953-". Library of Congress. Retrieved July 22, 2014. (Tom Dana Cohen; b. 08-13-53)
  2. ^ "Tom Cohen". College of Arts and Sciences. University at Albany (State University of New York). Retrieved March 14, 2014.
  3. ^ Ball, K (2006). "Hitchcock's Cryptonomies vols 1 and 2 (2005) by Tom Cohen". Culture Machine. 1 (1): 1.
  4. ^ Lippit, Akira Mizuta (2000). "Material Events: Paul de Man and the Afterlife of Theory (review)". MLN. 115 (5): 1158–1164. doi:10.1353/mln.2000.0067. S2CID 162014015.
  5. ^ Szalay, Michael (1995). "Book review: Anti-mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock". MLN. 110 (4): 983–985. doi:10.1111/edth.12034.
  6. ^ Cohen, Tom; Colebrook, Claire (eds.). "Critical Climate Change". Books: Series. Open Humanities Press. Retrieved March 14, 2014.