Full-Time Faculty

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Ph.D., English and American Literature and Language, Harvard University, 1992

My research interests include: the history of monsters; postcolonial approaches to the Middle Ages; the mingling of cultures in the British archipelago; identity, race, violence, hybridity, monstrosity, medieval Jews, the body; continental philosophy and critical theory.

Books:

Cultural Diversity in Medieval Britain: Archipelago, Island, England. Palgrave Macmillan, New Middle Ages series, 2008

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.

Other Publications:

“Postcolonial Theory." 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.

"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.