Samuel Cohen
Assistant Professor of English
University
of Missouri-Columbia
Publications
In Progress
“What Comes Next: Recent
American Fiction and the Question of Canon Formation,” book manuscript
Literature: The Human Experience, 11th ed., ed.
Richard Abcarian, Marvin Klotz, Samuel Cohen, under contract with Bedford/St.
Martin’s
"Fables of American Collectivity Circa 2005: Chris
Bachelder's U.S.!, Lydia Millet's Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, and George
Saunders's Brief and Frightening Reign of
Phil," invited submission, special issue, Amerikastudien/American Studies (forthcoming 2013)
Books
After
the End of History: American Fiction in the 1990s. University of
Iowa Press, October 2009.
Reviewed
in American Literature (Brief
Mention), Booklist, Choice (awarded
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
2010), Twentieth-Century Literature
The
Legacy of David Foster Wallace, co-edited with Lee Konstantinou,
University of Iowa Press (forthcoming Spring 2012) (see
“The Afterlife of David Foster Wallace,” Jennifer
Howard, The Chronicle Review,
Section B of The Chronicle of Higher Education,
14 January 2011, Volume 57, Number 19, B6-9 <http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/125823/>)
Book Series
“The New
American Canon: The Iowa Series in Contemporary Literature and Culture,”
University of Iowa Press, Series Editor
Articles
“‘To
Wish to Try to Sing to the Next Generation’: Infinite Jest’s History,” The Legacy of David Foster
Wallace. Ed. Samuel Cohen and Lee
Konstantinou, University of Iowa Press (forthcoming Spring 2012)
“Introduction:
Zoologists, Elephants, and Editors,” with Lee Konstantinou, The Legacy of David Foster Wallace. Ed. Samuel Cohen and Lee Konstantinou
(forthcoming Spring 2012)
“The Novel in a Time of
Terror: Middlesex, History, and Contemporary American Fiction” in Twentieth-Century
Literature 53.3 (Fall 2007), 371-93
“Triumph and Trauma: In
the Lake of the Woods and History,” in Clio: Journal of
Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 53.3 (Spring 2007)
“Mason & Dixon & the Ampersand,” in Twentieth-Century
Literature 48.3 (Fall 2002), 264-91
“Tinkering
toward WAC Utopia,” in Journal of Basic Writing 21.2 (Fall 2002), 56-72
“Composition and
Construction: Belief, Identity, and the Teaching of Writing,” in Dialogue: A Journal
for Writing Specialists 6.1 (Fall 1999), 30-36
Reviews
“The
Cloud of Unknowing,” review of John McClure’s Partial Faiths: Postsecular Fiction in the Age of Pynchon and Morrison,
Novel 43.2 (Summer 2010), 357-60
“It’s the End of the World as We Know It,”
review of Walter Benn Michaels, The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End
of History, in Twentieth-Century Literature 51.1 (Spring 2005),
98-104 (excerpted in Chronicle of Higher Education 22 September 2006, Volume 53, Issue 5, Research
& Publishing, A14, and online)
Textbooks
50 Essays: A Portable Anthology,
3rd edition (New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s), 2010
Literature: The
Human Experience, 10th ed., ed. Richard
Abcarian, Marvin Klotz, Samuel Cohen. Forthcoming from Bedford/St.
Martin’s, November 2009
“Looking Farther” Casebooks, Literature: The Human Experience, Shorter 9th ed., ed. Richard Abcarian, Marvin Klotz (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s), pp. 299-308, 710-18, 946-62; 2007
50 Essays: A Portable Anthology,
2nd ed. (New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s), 2006
“Looking
Farther” Casebooks, Literature: The
Human Experience, 9th ed., ed. Richard Abcarian, Marvin Klotz (Boston:
Bedford/St. Martin’s), pp. 354-64, 675-90, 977-85, 1277-92, 1485-1514;
2006
50 Essays: A Portable Anthology (New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2003)
Encyclopedias
“Bob Marley,”
“Ngugi wa Thiong’o,”
“Richard Wright,”
in Encyclopedia of the World’s Minorities, ed. Carl Skutsch (
“Frederick Barthelme,”
“T. Coraghessan Boyle,” “John Casey,” “Richard
Ford,” and “Mona Simpson,” in Encyclopedia of American
Literature, ed. Steven Serafin (New York: Continuum Press, 1999), pp.78-79,
114-15, 164, 391-92, 1045-46
“Russell Banks ,”
“Frederick Barthelme,” “T. Coraghessan Boyle,”
“Mona Simpson,” “Robert Stone,” and “Peter
Taylor,” in Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century,
ed. Steven Serafin (Detroit: St. James Press, 1999), v. 1, pp. 194-195; v. 1,
p. 210; v. 1, pp. 321-22; v. 4, pp. 110-11; v. 4, pp. 226-27; v. 4, pp. 301-02
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