Tom Cohen Explained

Tom Cohen
Birth Name:	Tom Dana Cohen
Birth Date:	13 August 1953
Nationality:	American
Education:	University of Chicago (MA) Yale University (PhD)
Occupation:	Cultural 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.

Biography

Cohen's education consists of a M.A. from the University of Chicago in Comparative Literature and a Ph.D. from Yale University in Comparative Literature. Thus Cohen’s work began in literary theory and cultural politics but he has then explored as a philosopher areas of critical theory, cinema studies, digital media and climate change.^[7]

Selected bibliography

Books

• Book: Cohen, Tom . Anti-mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge New York, NY, USA . 1994 . 9780521465847.

Reviewed in: Szalay . Michael . Book review: Anti-mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock . MLN . 110 . 4 . 983–985 . 10.1111/edth.12034 . 1995 .

• Book: Cohen, Tom . Ideology and inscription: "cultural studies" after Benjamin, de Man, and Bakhtin . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge, UK New York . 1998 . 9780521599672.
• Book: Cohen, Tom . Jacques Derrida and the humanities a critical reader . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge, U.K. New York . 2001 . 9780521625654.
• Book: Cohen . Tom . Miller . J. Hillis . Cohen . Barbara . Ardrzej . Warminski . J. Hillis Miller . Material events: Paul de Man and the afterlife of theory . University of Minnesota Press . Minneapolis . 2001 . 9780816636143.
• Book: Cohen, Tom . Hitchcock's cryptonymies: volume 1 secret agents . University of Minnesota Press . Minneapolis . 2005 . 9780816642069.
• Book: Cohen, Tom . Hitchcock's cryptonymies: volume 1 war machines . University of Minnesota Press . Minneapolis . 2005 . 9780816641710.
• Book: Cohen . Tom . Colebrook . Claire . Miller . J. Hillis . Claire Colebrook . J. Hillis Miller . Theory and the disappearing future: on De Man, on Benjamin . Routledge . Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon New York . 2012 . 9780415604536.
• Book: Cohen, Tom . Telemorphosis: theory in the era of climate change . 1 . Open Humanities Press . Ann Arbor . 2012 . 9781607852377.

External links

• Personal page: Tom Cohen College of Arts and Sciences, University of Albany, State University of New York

Notes and References

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