Jesse S. Cohn, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of English

Introduction

Jesse Cohn teaches composition, literature and theory in the Department of English.

I love how often a single book, a single theme, even a single word can suddenly appear to be the key to everything, bringing the world into focus. And then the vertigo you get when you take off those lenses and try on another pair -- and the world is new again.

Select Publications

• Hot Equations: Science, Fantasy, and the Radical Imagination on a Troubled Planet. Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2024.
• “Mobilizing Passions: Ideology, Incoherence, and Fascism in Cinema.” Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies 2024.1 (2024): 13-43.
• “Vile Matter”: New Materialism and the Black Anarchism of Rivers Solomon’s Sorrowland.” Extrapolation 64.3 (2023): 307-322.
• Cohn, Jesse. “Demodernizing Anarchism.” Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, no. 33, 2023, pp. 9–26.

Teaching Focus

He teaches composition and first-year experience courses, literary theory and research methods, popular genres (science fiction and fantasy, film, the graphic novel, humor) and contemporary literature.