Matt Cohen Assistant Professor
Office Location: 501 Allen
Office Phone: 919-684-2252
Email Address: mxcohe@duke.edu
- Office Hours:
- ON LEAVE Fall 2008 and Spring 2009
- 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. He is 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), and the author of a book on early American writing in the context of seventeenth-century English and Native American communications technologies, Native Audiences: Communicating in Early New England (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming). 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.
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- M. Cohen. "Untranslatable? Making American Literature in Translation Digital." Modern Language Studies 37.1 (Summer, 2007): 43-53.
- Brother Men: The Correspondence of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Herbert T. Weston. Duke University Press, Spring 2005. [available here] [abs]
- M. Cohen. "Morton’s Maypole and the Indians: Publishing in Early New England." Book History 5 (2002): 1-18.
- 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 Kinohi Nishikawa. review of Pascale Casanova, The World Republic of Letters. SHARP News (Fall, 2005).
- review of E. Jennifer Monaghan, Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America. New England Quarterly 79.2 (2006): 311-313.
