Jeffrey J Cohen
@jeffreyjcohen
writer and teacher who cares a lot about the future of the humanities as well as access to education dean of humanities & professor of English @ ASU, but this is my personal account, opinions are mine
does anyone else write in longhand to slow down their brain and be with words?
This book turned thirty (!!!) this year and a new version will be released with more than 20 fresh essays this cover is so 1990s -- the challenge for the new book is to find a way to cite it without being stuck in its design
ANYWAY fast forward to last week: I got to meet the Ewers brothers for lunch just before we showed Henry David Thoreau (the documentary) on campus and wow, they exceeded expectations with their smartness and kindness and love of sustained attentiveness
I'm big in Hungary! (thank you Ildikó Limpár) www.apertura.hu/2025/osz/coh...
terrible if wholly predictable environmental news for Alaska that's my son @alexcohen.bsky.social with the spot on quote apnews.com/article/alas...
it’s from an essay reprinted in this excellent collection on zombies 🧟♂️
For a project in progress I’ve had to return to some older writing and this line really hits years later “Apocalypse is a failure of the imagination, a giving up on the future instead of a commitment to the difficult work of composing a better present.”
I left my former institution in 2018, and yet the department of English there still has me listed, looking dapper in a flannel shirt from maybe ten years before that (c. 2008)
we are going to need a bigger boat contingentmagazine.org/2025/10/22/a...
Three decades later, Monster Theory has never been out of print.
Fun fact about the cover of Monster Theory: I did not realize there was a monster's head embedded within the green and blue swathe until I saw the cover projected behind me at the recent @ucscmonsters.bsky.social conference. The book is almost 30 years old and yes I just realized.
It's Halloween! 🎃 Naturally I am working on the preface to Monster Theory 3.0, under contract with @uminnpress.bsky.social and offering more than twenty new essays in monster studies as well as a rethinking of "Monster Culture (Seven Theses)."
It’s Halloween! Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock’s The Monster Theory Reader from @uminnpress.bsky.social is a book I find myself returning to repeatedly 🎃😈🧌
Seeking something older than me my brother gifted me a Roman coin for my birthday
Owen’s Lake, a dry lake with toxic dust. From my flight from San Jose to Phoenix this morning. The lake has an interesting history involving water for LA and dust mitigation via lawsuit. It’s also a stopping place for migratory birds and has color zones due to salt loving microorganisms.