Samuel Cohen
Assistant Professor of English
University
of Missouri-Columbia
Publications
Books
After
the End of History: American Fiction in the 1990s. University of
Iowa Press, 2009.
Reviewed in American Literary History 24.2 (Spring 2012) 1-15; American Literary Scholarship: 2009 344;
American Literature 82.2 (2010) 456; Booklist Online August 2009; Choice (awarded Outstanding Academic Title 2010); Contemporary Literature 52.3 (2011)
574-80; Twentieth-Century Literature
55.3 (Fall 2009) 416-22
The
Legacy of David Foster Wallace, co-edited with Lee Konstantinou,
University of Iowa Press, 2012.
Book Series
“The New
American Canon: The Iowa Series in Contemporary Literature and Culture,”
University of Iowa Press, Series Editor
Articles
[“‘How helpless a person can be’: Sex, Art, and
Politics in DeLillo’s “Baader-Meinhof,” invited submission,
Voices in Italian Americana 23.2 (forthcoming 2013)]
["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)]
“‘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 , 2012
“Introduction:
Zoologists, Elephants, and Editors,” with Lee Konstantinou, The Legacy of David Foster Wallace. Ed. Samuel Cohen and Lee Konstantinou,
University of Iowa Press 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
Literature:
The Human Experience, 11th ed., ed. Richard Abcarian,
Marvin Klotz, Samuel Cohen. Bedford/St. Martin’s (forthcoming September
2012)
50 Essays: A Portable Anthology,
3rd edition. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2010
Literature: The
Human Experience, 10th ed., ed. Richard
Abcarian, Marvin Klotz, Samuel Cohen. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 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. 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. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2003
Other Publications
“Teaching
Fiction” blog on Lit Bits: Ideas
for Teaching Literature and Creative Writing (Bedford/St.
Martin’s) http://blogs.bedfordstmartins.com/litbits/
“An
Interview with D. T. Max.” The
Believer Logger 11 September 2012
http://believermag.tumblr.com/post/31345087174/dtmax
“Future Tense.” Cedars,
An Online Literary Journal 2 (Spring 2012).
Guest Commentary on tenth anniversary
of 9/11, The Columbia Missourian 11
September 2011
<http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2011/09/11/guest-commentary/>
“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
In Progress
“What
Comes Next: Recent American Fiction and The Future,” book manuscript
50
Essays: A Portable Anthology, 4th ed., under
contract with Bedford/St. Martin’s, forthcoming September 2013
“The
Whiteness of David Foster Wallace,” solicited chapter for Postmodern Literature and Racial Discourse,
eds. Len Platt and Sara Upstone, under contract with Cambridge University Press
“Multiculturalism and the Culture Wars,” solicited chapter for Cambridge History of Postmodern Literature, eds. Brian McHale and Len Platt, under contract with Cambridge University Press
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