Jeffrey Cohen (Dean)

Media

Founder of the medieval studies group blog In the Middle <inthemedievalmiddle.com>. The blog has been accumulated more than 3 million page views, received Cliopatria’s “Best Group Blog” award for 2007 and has been featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Education.

Publications: Books

• Veer Ecology: A Companion for Environmental Thinking. University of Minnesota Press, 2018. Editor, with Lowell Duckert. 2018.
• Earth. Co-authored with Lindy Elkins-Tanton. Bloomsbury (Object Lessons series), 2017.
• Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman. University of Minnesota Press, 2015. Winner of the René Wellek Prize for best book in comparative literature, 2017.
• Elemental Ecocriticism: Thinking with Earth, Air, Water, and Fire. University of Minnesota Press, 2015. Editor, with Lowell Duckert.
• Prismatic Ecology: Ecotheory Beyond Green. University of Minnesota Press, 2013. Editor.
• Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages: Archipelago, Island, England. Palgrave Macmillan, New Middle Ages series, 2008. Editor.
• Hybridity, Identity and Monstrosity in Medieval Britain: Of Difficult Middles. Palgrave Macmillan, New Middle Ages series, 2006.
• Medieval Identity Machines. University of Minnesota Press, Medieval Cultures series, 2003.
• Thinking the Limits of the Body. State University of New York Press, Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art series, 2002. Editor, with Gail Weiss.
• The Postcolonial Middle Ages. Palgrave, New Middle Ages series, 2000. Editor.
• Of Giants: Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages. University of Minnesota Press, Medieval Cultures series, 1999.
• Becoming Male in the Middle Ages. Garland Publishing, New Middle Ages series, 1997. Editor, with Bonnie Wheeler.
• Monster Theory:  Reading Culture. University of Minnesota Press, Visible Evidence series, 1996. Editor

Book Project in Progress

"Noah's Arkive: Towards an Ecology of Refuge." Co-authored with Julian Yates. Under contract with the University of Minnesota Press, delivery 2019.

Open Access

• Object Oriented Environs. punctum books, 2016. Editor, with Julian Yates.
• Inhuman Nature. Oliphaunt / punctum books, 2014. Editor.
• Burn After Reading vol. 2: The Future We Want. Oliphaunt / punctum books, 2014. Editor.
• Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects. Oliphaunt / punctum books, 2012. Editor.

Special Issues of Journals

• “Assembling the Ecological Digital Humanities.” Essay cluster for PMLA 131 (2016), co-edited with Stephanie LeMenager (2016).
• “Ecomaterialism.” postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies 4 (2013). Edited with Lowell Duckert.
• “New Critical Modes.” postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies 2 (2011). Edited with Cary Howie.
• "Medieval Noise.” Exemplaria 16.2 (2004).

Book Chapters and Journal Articles

• “Anarky.” Reading in the Anthropocene: Literary History and Geologic Times, ed. Tobias Menely and Jesse Oak Taylor (Penn State University Press, 2017).
• “Afterword: Monster Classroom (Seven Theses).” Monsters in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching What Scares Us, ed. Adam Golub and Heather Richardson Hayton (Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2017) 228-35.
• “Posthuman Environs.” Environmental Humanities: Voices from the Anthropocene, ed. Serenella Iovino and Serpil Oppermann (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017) 25-44.
• “Introduction: Assembling the Ecological Digital Humanities,” with Stephanie LeMenager, PMLA 131.2 (2016): 340-46.
• “Aninormality.” Fragments for a History of a Vanishing Humanism, ed. Myra Seaman and Elieen A. Joy (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016) 129-50.
• “Introduction (An Environing of this Book),” with Julian Yates. Object Oriented Environs, ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Julian Yates (punctum books, 2016) xi-xxv.
• “Introduction: Eleven Principles of the Elements,” with Lowell Duckert. Elemental Ecocriticism: Thinking with Earth, Air, Water and Fire, ed. Jeffrey J. Cohen and Lowell Duckert (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015) 1-26.
• “The Sea Above.” Elemental Ecocriticism: Thinking with Earth, Air, Water and Fire, ed. Jeffrey J. Cohen and Lowell Duckert (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015) 105-33.
• “The Sea is a Conveyance-Machine: A Waterlog” and (with Allan Mitchell) “Oceanic Dispatches,” Oceanic New York, ed. Steve Mentz (New York: punctum books), 131-41, 201-208
• “On the Necessity of Ignoring Those Who Offer Themselves as Examples.” How We Write: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blank Page, ed. Suzanne Conklin Akbari (New York: punctum books, 2015) 44-56.
• “Geophilia, or the Love of Stone.” continent. 4.2 (2015): 8-17.
• “Foreword: Storied Matter.” Material Ecocriticism, ed. Serenella Iovino and Serpil Oppermann (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014) ix-xii.
• “Ecostitial.” Inhuman Nature, ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (Washington DC: Oliphaunt / punctum books, 2014) i-x.
• “Elemental Relations.” O-Zone: A Journal of Object-Oriented Studies 1 (2014): 53-61.
• “Introduction: Ecology’s Rainbow.” Prismatic Ecology: Ecotheory Beyond Green, ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014) xv-xxxv.
• “Grey.” Prismatic Ecology: Ecotheory Beyond Green, ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014) 270-89. Reprinted as “Grey: A Zombie Ecology” in Zombie Theory: A Reader, ed. Sarah Juliet Lauro (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017) 381-94.
• “The Swerve Code.” Exemplaria 25 (2013): 367-70.
• “Undead (A Zombie Oriented Ontology).” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 23.3 (2013): 397-412.
• “In the Middle of the Early Modern.” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 13 (2013): 129-33.
• “Race.” A Handbook of Middle English Studies, ed. Marion Turner (Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2013) 109-122.
• “The Future of the Jews of York.” Christians and Jews in Medieval England: Narratives and Contexts for the York 1190 Massacre, ed. Sarah Rees Jones  and Sethina Watson (Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 2013) 278-93.
• “British Chaucer.” Magistra Doctissima: Essays in Honor of Bonnie Wheeler, ed. Dorsey Armstrong, Ann W. Astell, and Howell Chickering (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2013) 25-33.
• “Howl.” With Lowell Duckert. postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies 4 (2013): 1-5.
• “Fire.” With Stephanie Trigg. postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies 4 (2013): 80-92.
• “Sublunary.” Speculative Medievalisms: Discography, ed. The Petropunk Collective (Brooklyn: punctum books, 2013) 207-18.
• “The Werewolf’s Indifference.” Special cluster on “Animalia.” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 34 (2012): 351–56.
• “The Sex Life of Stone.” From Beasts to Souls: Gender and Embodiment in Medieval Europe, ed. E. Jane Burns and Peggy McCracken (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013) 17-38. Published in an adapted form as “Queering the Inorganic.” Queer Futures: Reconsidering Normativity, Activism and the Political, ed.  Eveline Killian, Elahe Haschemi Yekani and Beatrice Michaelis (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012) 149-164.
• “Why We Blog: An Essay in Four Movements.” With Karl Steel, Mary Kate Hurley, and Eileen A. Joy. Literature Compass 9 (2012): 1016–1032.
• “All Things.” Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects, ed. Jeffrey J. Cohen (Washington DC: Oliphaunt / punctum books, 2012) 1-8.
• “The Promise of Monsters.” The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous, ed. Asa Simon Mittman and Peter Dendle (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2012) 447-462. Published in an earlier form as “La promesa de los monstruos,” De Animales y Monstruos (Barcelona: Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 2012) 91-101.
• “Preface: Losing Your Head.” Heads Will Roll: Decapitation in the Medieval and Early Modern Imagination, ed. Larissa Tracy and Jeff Massey (Leiden: Brill, 2012) vii-ix.
• “Novelty.” postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies 2 (2011): 239-241. Co-written with Cary Howie.
• “An Abecedarium for the Elements.” postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies 2 (2011): 291-303.
• “Blogging the Middle Ages.” Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog: Medieval Studies and New Media, ed. Brantley L. Bryant (New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2010) 29-42.
• “Stories of Stone.” postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies 1 (2010): 56-63.
• “Pilgrimages, Travel Writing, and the Medieval Exotic.” The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English, ed. Elaine Treharne and Greg Walker (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010) 611-628.
• “Time out of Memory.” The Post-Historical Middle Ages, ed. Sylvia Federico and Elizabeth Scala (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) 37-61.
• “Introduction: Infinite Realms.” Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages: Archipelago, Island, England, ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) 1-16.
• “Green Children from Another World, or The Archipelago in England.” Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages: Archipelago, Island, England, ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) 75-94.
• “An Unfinished Conversation about Glowing Green Bunnies.” Afterword to Queering the Non/Human, ed. Noreen Giffney and Myra J. Hird (Ashgate, 2008) 363-75.
• "Inventing with Animals in the Middle Ages." Engaging with Nature: Essays on the Natural World in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Barbara A. Hanawalt and Lisa J. Kiser (University of Notre Dame Press, 2008) 39-62. Reprinted in Re-Imagining Nature: Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics, ed. Alfred Kentigern Siewers (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2014) 141-58.
• "Afterword: Intertemporality." Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages, ed. Eileen A. Joy, Myra J. Seaman, Kimberly K. Bell, and Mary K. Ramsey (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) 295-300.
• "The Ruins of Identity." Chapter from Of Giants reprinted in The Postmodern Beowulf: A Critical Casebook, ed. Eileen A. Joy, Mary K. Ramsey and Bruce M. Gilchrist (West Virginia University Press, European Middle Ages series, 2007) 345-381.
• "Pink Vectors of Deleuze: Queer Theory and Inhumanism." In "The Becoming-Deleuzoguattarian of Queer Studies," a special issue of the journal Rhizomes ed. Michael O'Rourke (Rhizomes 11/12 [2005]). Co-written with Todd Ramlow.
• "Postcolonialism."  Chaucer: An Oxford Guide, ed. Steven Ellis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) 448-462.
• "Kyte oute yugilment: An Introduction to Medieval Noise," Exemplaria 16.2 (2004): 267-76.
• "The Flow of Blood in Medieval Norwich." Speculum 78 (2004): 26-65.
• "Introduction: Bodies at the Limit," Thinking the Limits of the Body, ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Gail Weiss (SUNY Press, 2002), 1-10.
• "The Inhuman Circuit," Thinking the Limits of the Body, ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Gail Weiss (SUNY Press, 2002), 167-186.
• "The Postcolonial Jew: Trauma, Race and Nation c.1144." Incontrare i Mostri: Variazoni sul tema nella letteratura e cultura inglese e angloamericana, ed. Maria Teresa Chialant (Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane,  2002), 31-43.
• "On Saracen Enjoyment: Some Fantasies of Race in Late Medieval France and England," Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 31.1 (2001):111-144.
• "Introduction: Midcolonial," The Postcolonial Middle Ages, ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (St. Martin's Press, 2000), 1-17.
• "Hybrids, Monsters, Borderlands:  The Bodies of Gerald of Wales," The Postcolonial Middle Ages, ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (St. Martin's Press, 2000), 85-104.
• "Dwindling Masculinity in Chaucer's Tale of Sir Thopas," Masculinities in Chaucer, ed. Peter Beidler (Boydell & Brewer, 1998), 143-155.
• "Masoch/Lancelotism," New Literary History 28.2 (1997): 231-260.
• "Introduction:  Becoming and Unbecoming," Becoming Male in the Middle Ages , ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Bonnie Wheeler (Garland Publishing, 1997), vii-xx.
• "Gowther among the Dogs:  Becoming Inhuman c.1400," Becoming Male in the Middle Ages , ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Bonnie Wheeler (Garland Publishing, 1997), 219-44.
• "The Armour of an Alienating Identity," Arthuriana 6.4 (1996): 1-24.  Published previously in hypertext as "Medieval Masculinities:  Heroism, Sanctity, and Gender," Interscripta (November-December 1993, revised October 1995), www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/e-center/interscripta/mm.html
• "Preface:  In a Time of Monsters," Monster Theory:  Reading Culture, ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (University of Minnesota Press, 1996), vii-xiii.
• "Monster Culture (Seven Theses)," Monster Theory:  Reading Culture, ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (University of Minnesota Press, 1996), 3-25. Translated into Portuguese as “A cultura dos monstros: sete teses,” Pedagogia dos monstros: os prazeres e os perigos da confusão de fronteiras, ed. Tomaz Tadeu da Silva (Belo Horizonte: Autêntica, 2000).
• "The Limits of Knowing:  Monsters and the Regulation of Medieval Popular Culture," Medieval Folklore III (1994): 1-37.  Published in revised form as "The Order of Monsters:  Monster Lore and Medieval Narrative Traditions," Telling Tales:  Medieval Narratives and the Folk Tradition, ed. Francesca Canadé Sautman, Diana Conchado, and Giuseppe Carlo Di Scipio (St Martin's Press, 1998), 37-58.
• "Decapitation and Coming of Age:  Constructing Masculinity and the Monstrous," The Arthurian Yearbook III (1993): 171-190.
• "Old English Literature and the Work of Giants," Comitatus  24 (1993): 1-32.
• "The Use of Monsters and the Middle Ages," SELIM (Revista de la Sociedad Española de Lengua y Literatura Inglesa Medieval / Journal of Old and Middle English Studies of Spain), no. 2 (1992): 47-69.