Jeffrey Jerome Cohen 

 homepage and electronic CV

PUBLICATIONS:  BOOKS

• Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages: Archipelago, Island, England. Palgrave Macmillan, New Middle Ages series, 2008. Editor.
• Hybridity, Identity and Monstrosity in Medieval Britain: Of Difficult Middles. Palgrave Macmillan, New Middle Ages series, 2006.
• Medieval Identity Machines. University of Minnesota Press, Medieval Cultures series, 2003.
• Thinking the Limits of the Body. State University of New York Press, Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art series, 2002. Editor, with Gail Weiss.
• The Postcolonial Middle Ages. Palgrave, New Middle Ages series, 2000. Editor.
• Of Giants: Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages. University of Minnesota Press, Medieval Cultures series, 1999.
• Becoming Male in the Middle Ages. Garland Publishing, New Middle Ages series, 1997. Editor, with Bonnie Wheeler.
• Monster Theory: Reading Culture. University of Minnesota Press, Visible Evidence series, 1996. Editor.

BOOK CHAPTERS AND JOURNAL ARTICLES

• “Time out of Memory.” The Post-Historical Middle Ages, ed. Sylvia Federico and Elizabeth Scala (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) 37-61.
  
• “Introduction: Infinite Realms.” Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages: Archipelago, Island, England, ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) 1-16.
• “Green Children from Another World, or The Archipelago in England.” Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages: Archipelago, Island, England, ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) 75-94.
• “An Unfinished Conversation about Glowing Green Bunnies.” Afterword to Queering the Non/Human, ed. Noreen Giffney and Myra J. Hird (Ashgate, 2008) 363-75.
• "Inventing with Animals in the Middle Ages." Engaging with Nature: Essays on the Natural World in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Barbara A. Hanawalt and Lisa J. Kiser (University of Notre Dame Press, 2008) 39-62.
• "Afterword: Intertemporality." Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages, ed. Eileen A. Joy, Myra J. Seaman, Kimberly K. Bell, and Mary K. Ramsey (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) 295-300.
• "The Ruins of Identity." Chapter from Of Giants reprinted in The Postmodern Beowulf: A Critical Casebook, ed. Eileen A. Joy, Mary K. Ramsey and Bruce M. Gilchrist (West Virginia University Press, European Middle Ages series, 2007) 345-81.
• "Pink Vectors of Deleuze: Queer Theory and Inhumanism." In "The Becoming-Deleuzoguattarian of Queer Studies," a special issue of the journal Rhizomes ed. Michael O'Rourke (Rhizomes 11/12 [2005]). Co-written with Todd Ramlow.
• "Postcolonialism."  Chaucer: An Oxford Guide, ed. Steven Ellis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) 448-62.
• "Kyte oute yugilment: An Introduction to Medieval Noise," Exemplaria 16.2 (2004): 267-76. "Medieval Noise" is a cluster of four essays on nonlinguistic sound that I guest edited for the journal.
• "The Flow of Blood in Medieval Norwich." Speculum 78 (2004): 26-65.
• "Introduction: Bodies at the Limit," Thinking the Limits of the Body, ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Gail Weiss (SUNY Press, 2002), 1-10.
• "The Inhuman Circuit," Thinking the Limits of the Body, ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Gail Weiss (SUNY Press, 2002), 167-186.
• "The Postcolonial Jew: Trauma, Race and Nation c.1144." Incontrare i Mostri: Variazoni sul tema nella letteratura e cultura inglese e angloamericana, ed. Maria Teresa Chialant (Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane,  2002), 31-43.
• "On Saracen Enjoyment: Some Fantasies of Race in Late Medieval France and England," Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 31.1 (2001):111-44.
• "Introduction:  Midcolonial," The Postcolonial Middle Ages, ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (St. Martin's Press, 2000), 1-17.
• "Hybrids, Monsters, Borderlands:  The Bodies of Gerald of Wales," The Postcolonial Middle Ages, ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (St. Martin's Press, 2000), 85-104.
• "Dwindling Masculinity in Chaucer's Tale of Sir Thopas," Masculinities in Chaucer, ed. Peter Beidler (Boydell & Brewer, 1998), 143-155.
• "Masoch/Lancelotism," New Literary History  28.2 (1997): 231-60.
• "Introduction:  Becoming and Unbecoming," Becoming Male in the Middle Ages , ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Bonnie Wheeler (Garland Publishing, 1997), vii-xx.
• "Gowther among the Dogs:  Becoming Inhuman c.1400," Becoming Male in the Middle Ages , ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Bonnie Wheeler (Garland Publishing, 1997), 219-44.
• "The Armour of an Alienating Identity," Arthuriana 6.4 (1996): 1-24.  Published previously in hypertext as "Medieval Masculinities: Heroism, Sanctity, and Gender," Interscripta (November-December 1993, revised October 1995)
• "Preface:  In a Time of Monsters," Monster Theory:  Reading Culture, ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (University of Minnesota Press, 1996), vii-xiii.
• "Monster Culture (Seven Theses)," Monster Theory: Reading Culture, ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (University of Minnesota Press, 1996), 3-25.
• "The Limits of Knowing:  Monsters and the Regulation of Medieval Popular Culture," Medieval Folklore III (1994): 1-37.  Published in revised form as "The Order of Monsters:  Monster Lore and Medieval Narrative Traditions," Telling Tales: Medieval Narratives and the Folk Tradition, ed. Francesca Canadé Sautman, Diana Conchado, and Giuseppe Carlo Di Scipio (St Martin's Press, 1998), 37-58.
• "Decapitation and Coming of Age:  Constructing Masculinity and the Monstrous," The Arthurian Yearbook III (1993): 171-190.
• "Old English Literature and the Work of Giants," Comitatus  24 (1993): 1-32.
• "The Use of Monsters and the Middle Ages," SELIM (Revista de la Sociedad Española de Lengua y Literatura Inglesa Medieval / Journal of Old and Middle English Studies of Spain), no. 2 (1992): 47-69.

BOOK REVIEWS, ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES, AND LETTERS

• Review of Anthony Bale, The Jew in the Medieval Book: English Antisemitisms, 1350-1500 in Studies in the Age of Chaucer (2008) 340-43
  
• "Animals, sexual symbolism of." Entry for the Gale Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender, ed. Fedwa Malti-Douglas (Macmillan Reference, 2008)
• "Postcolonial Theory." Entry for Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia, ed. Margaret Schaus (New York: Routledge, 2007) 660-661.
• Review of Peter Haidu, The Subject Medieval/Modern: Text and Governance in the Middle Ages in L'Esprit Créatur 46.3 (2006) 114.
• "Monstrous Beauty" (review of Debra Higgs Strickland, Saracens, Demons, and Jews: Making Monsters in Medieval Art), Patterns of Prejudice 39.3 (2005) 343-45.
• Review of Kathryn L. Lynch, ed. Chaucer's Cultural Geography, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 26 (2004) 409-11.
• Review of Mark Thornton Burnett, Constructing 'Monsters' in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture, Shakespeare Quarterly 55.1 (2004): 98-100.
• "Race." Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Vol. 14: First Supplement, ed. William Chester Jordan (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004) 515-18.
• Review of Peggy McCracken, The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero: Blood, Gender, and Medieval Literature, H-France Book Reviews, December 2003 (www3.uakron.edu/hfrance/reviews/cohen2.html)
• Review of Charles Ross, The Custom of the Castle:  from Malory to Macbeth, Shakespeare Quarterly 50.3 (1999): 392-93.
• Review of Claire Sponsler, Drama and Resistance:  Bodies, Goods, and Theatricality in Late Medieval England, Arthuriana 8.3 (1998): 100-101.
• "Monstrosity, Geographical." Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia, ed. John Block Friedman and Kristen Mossler Figg (Garland Publishing, 2000): 415-16.
• Review of Michael J. Curley, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Speculum 73 (1998): 162-63.
• Review of Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature (ed. Linda Lomperis and Sarah Stanbury), Bryn Mawr Medieval Review 94.4.6.
• Letter to the editor on “post-disciplinarity," PMLA 111.2 (1996): 83.

HONORS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS

• Faculty Speaker, Columbian School of Arts and Sciences Commencement (faculty member chosen by students to deliver speech at ceremony, 2009)
• University Facilitating Fund Grant, George Washington University: “Dreaming the Prehistoric in the Middle Ages” ($9,638 for summer research, 2009).
• Monster Theory: Reading Culture honored at the fifteenth anniversary of its publication through a special session “Monster Culture: Seven Theses (A Roundtable)” at the International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo 2008.
• Research Enhancement Fund of the George Washington University (three year sponsorship of a medieval and early modern studies institute, funded at $120,000 in startup)
  
• American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (one year of leave to pursue project "The Flow of Blood in Medieval Norwich," 2003-04)
• Columbian Research Fellow, George Washington University (one year of teaching release to complete manuscript of The Flow of Blood in Medieval Norwich, 2003-04)
• University Facilitating Fund Grant, George Washington University: "Mixed Racial Heritage and Personal Identity in the Middle Ages" ($10,000 for research, travel, and manuscript work in London and York, 2000)
• Instructional Technology Lab Course Grant, George Washington University ($2500 to add multimedia component to "Survey of Medieval Literature," 2000)
• Monster Theory: Reading Culture included in the exhibits "A Telling of Wonders: Teratology in Western Medicine," New York Academy of Medicine Library (November 1, 1999 - February 15, 2000) and "Terrors and Wonders: Monsters in Contemporary Art," DeCordova Museum, Lincoln MA (Sept. 15 2001-Jan. 6 2002)
• Columbian School of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Academic Advising Award, George Washington University ($500 prize, 1999)
• Nominee, Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize for Teaching, George Washington University (1999, 2002)
• Junior Faculty Incentive Award, George Washington University ($5000 for research at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 1998)
• Cooperative Grant for Faculty, Consortium of Washington Universities:  "The Limits of the Body:  An Interdisciplinary Research Group, Symposium,     and Edited Volume" (with Gail Weiss;  $2200, 1997)
• Human Sciences Course Development Grant, George Washington University: "Cultural Theory:  Culture and Society" ($3000, 1996)
• Derek Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University (1992, 1993, 1994)
• Jacob K. Javits Fellowship for Graduate Study (1988-1992)
• Joseph P. O'Hern Traveling Scholarship for Study and Research in Europe, University of Rochester ($4500, 1987)

MEDIA AND MISCELLANEOUS

• Founder of and contributor to the medieval studies group blog In the Middle. The blog received Cliopatria’s “Best Group Blog” award for 2007 and has been featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Education.
•  Interviewed about monsters and culture in Theofantastique
  
• Interviewed for “Knights of the Faculty Lounge,” John Gravois, Chronicle of Higher Education (7/6/2007)
• Presenter at the "Windows" discussion on Michael Kahn's National Shakespeare Theatre production of Richard III (2007)
• “Talking head” speaking about medieval dragons, Beowulf, and the enduring appeal of monsters in the History Channel / PBS documentary Flight of the Dragon (2005)
• Expert witness on the history of monstrosity, "Miller v. Pixar/Disney" (2003-06)
• Guest panelist for show on monstrousness in medieval and contemporary culture for the talk show Odyssey, Chicago Public Radio, April 11, 2003. Archived at www.wbez.org
• Interviewed and quoted in Libby Copeland, "In Corridors of Power, The Cup's Half Empty: Leader's Language Tests Our Fabled Optimism," The Washington Post May 28, 2002.
• Interviewed and quoted in Sarah Bayliss, "Our Monsters, Ourselves," The Boston Sunday Globe Nov. 11, 2001
  

 TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Undergraduate Courses
History of the English Language; Chaucer; Survey of British Literature; Medieval Literature; Medieval Myths of King Arthur; Middle English Literature; Medieval Romance; Critical Methods (undergraduate introduction to theory); Medieval Monsters and Heroes; Flesh and Spirit: Histories of the Body; The Postcolonial Middle Ages; Advanced Theory; Myths of Britain

Graduate Seminars
Chaucer; Culture and Society; Foucault and Deleuze; Introduction to Literary Criticism; Writing Race and Nation; Cultural Construction of Time; Hybridity and Complex Systems; Medieval Fantasies of the Aboriginal; The Archipelago of England; Transnational England