Samuel Cohen
Assistant Professor of English
University
of Missouri-Columbia
Books
After
the End of History: American Fiction in the 1990s.
Forthcoming from University
of Iowa Press, October 2009
Articles
“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, forthcoming in Novel
“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, 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 (
50 Essays: A
Portable Anthology (
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
Interview on David Foster Wallace, “Off the Clock,” KBIA Radio,
Interview on T. C. Boyle, “Thinking Out Loud,” KBIA
Radio,
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