Paula Marantz Cohen

Paula Marantz Cohen, Distinguished Professor of English, received her BA in English and French from Yale University and her PhD in English from Columbia University. She is the author of seven 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; Jane Austen in Scarsdale or Love, Death, and the SATs; What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale of Henry James and jack the Ripper; Suzanne Davis Gets a Life (Paul Dry Press); and Beatrice Bunson’s Guide to Romeo and Juliet (Paul Dry Press). 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, The Hudson Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The Southwest Review. She is the Co-Editor of the Journal of Modern Literature and a regular reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement and op-ed writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Wall Street Journal. She is the recipient of the Lindback Teaching Award.