Matt Cohen Assistant Professor
Email Address: matt.cohen@mail.utexas.edu
- Education and Interests:
- Ph.D., The College of William and Mary
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American Literature
- Matt Cohen works in the fields of the history of the book and race, class, gender and reproduction in American literature. He has published in PMLA, The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, American Literature and Book History, among other journals. He is the author of a book on early American writing in the context of seventeenth-century English and Native American communications technologies, The Networked Wilderness: Communicating in Early New England (University of Minnesota Press, fall 2009), and the editor of an edition of letters by the creator of Tarzan, titled Brother Men: The Correspondence of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Herbert T. Weston (Duke UP, 2005). A contributing editor at the Walt Whitman Archive, he directs several projects, including an NEH-funded initiative to create tools that will enable digital archives to encode manuscript marginalia more easily and to display visual search results for manuscript text. In 2008-2009 he is a Donald D. Harrington Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, and has been the recipient of fellowships from the Huntington Library, the Newberry Library, and the American Council of Learned Societies.
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- M. Cohen. The Networked Wilderness: Communicating in Early New England. University of Minnesota Press, November, 2009. [html] [Matt Cohen, The Networked Wilderness, PDF] [abs]
- Brother Men: The Correspondence of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Herbert T. Weston. Duke University Press, Spring 2005. [available here] [abs]
- M. Cohen. "State of the Discipline: The History of the Book in New England." Book History 11 (2008): 301-323.
- with Lauren Coats, John David Miles, Kinohi Nishikawa, and Rebecca Walsh. "Those We Don’t Speak Of: Indians in The Village." PMLA 123.2 (2008): 358-374.
- M. Cohen. "Untranslatable? Making American Literature in Translation Digital." Modern Language Studies 37.1 (Summer, 2007): 43-53.
- with Rachel Price. Poemas: Walt Whitman (A. A. Vasseur, trans., 1912). The Walt Whitman Archive, December 31, 2006 (Archive co-directors Kenneth M. Price and Ed Folsom) [available here] [abs]
- M. Cohen. "Tarzan the German-Eater." Comparative American Studies 4.2 (2006): 151-174.
- with Rachel Price. "Álvaro Armando Vasseur’s Preface to the Sixth Edition of Walt Whitman: Poemas." PMLA 123.2 (2008): 438-451.
