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English and Philosophy Faculty Paula Cohen Paula Cohen's Homepage

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Discipline: Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century English and American Literature; Film Studies

Degrees: Ph. D., English, Columbia University
M.A., Comparative Literature, Columbia University
B.A., English and French, Yale University

Office: MacAlister 5046
Phone: (215) 895-1821
Fax: (215) 895-1071
E-mail: cohenpm@drexel.edu

Paula Marantz Cohen, Distinguished Professor of English, received her BA in English and French from Yale University and her Ph.D. in English from Columbia University. She is the author of six books and numerous essays on literature, film, and culture. Her scholarly books are The Daughter as Reader, The Daughter's Dilemma, Alfred Hitchcock: the Legacy of Victorianism, Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth; her novels are Jane Austen in Boca; Much Ado About Jessie Kaplan; and Jane Austen in Scarsdale or Love, Death, and the SATs. Her most recent academic book, Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth (Oxford UP), was selected as a Choice Outstanding Book for 2003. Her first novel, Jane Austen in Boca (St. Martin's Press), was a Literary Guild/Book of the Month Club Featured Alternate and a Page-Turner of the Week in People Magazine. She has articles and stories in many journals, including Yale Review, Boulevard, Iowa Review, Raritan, The American Scholar, and The Hudson Review. She is the Co-Editor of the Journal of Modern Literature and a regular reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement. She is the recipient of the Lindback Teaching Award.

Dr. Cohen teaches several courses in the Department of English and Philosophy, including Shakespeare, American Literature, and Victorian Literature, Film and Literature, and Writing Fiction.