@jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social
writer and teacher who cares a lot about the future of the humanities as well as access to education dean of humanities & professor of English @ ASU, but this is my personal account, opinions are mine https://www.jeffreyjeromecohen.com
The collection Monster Theory: Reading Culture = published 1996. UMP took a chance on this project; readers around globe ensured 3 decades later it remains in print, spur to fresh thinking. To celebrate flourishing of Monster Studies look for Monster Theory 3.0 w 22 new essays
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Happy to have @bgrafius.bsky.social in it writing on LEVIATHAN
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The debut issue of American Gothic Studies has now been published! To access, join The Society for the Study of the American Gothic at www.americangothicsociety.com. Free article from this issue at scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/ags/art....
11.07.2025 19:35 — 👍 23 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 2Truly grateful to @uminnpress.bsky.social for more than thirty years of supporting the collaborative and individual work I've proposed to them: they are a very special press
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The collection Monster Theory: Reading Culture = published 1996. UMP took a chance on this project; readers around globe ensured 3 decades later it remains in print, spur to fresh thinking. To celebrate flourishing of Monster Studies look for Monster Theory 3.0 w 22 new essays
#monsters 🧌👹🧛🏼🧟💀
Now 50 years old, “Jaws” remains one of the most iconic monster movies of all time. To understand why, ASU News talked with film and monster scholars of ASU English: @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social (also #ASUHumanities dean), @dremilyzarka.bsky.social, and Kevin Sandler.
Read: ow.ly/gOeZ50WfN5i 🏊🦈
Happy JAWS day! 🦈 For the iconic film's 50th birthday, ASU professor / #ASUHumanities dean / monster expert @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social talked @radiolab.bsky.social: "The best monster movies always work by withholding the thing that you're supposed to be frightened of."
Listen: ow.ly/7ASl50Wb7NS
a Cohen family favorite restaurant in Portsmouth invaded!
www.wmur.com/article/port...
JAWS at 50
happy birthday to Bruce, its mechanical shark head, which terrorized me as a child
jeffreyjcohen.substack.com/p/jaws-at-50
Really loving @radiolab.bsky.social's week of sharks!
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I was on the first two episodes speaking of monsters and delayed reveals and on the second having some fun with the sharksploitation genre
#monsters
radiolab.org
JJ Cohen x Radiolab???? Hell yes.
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This week is a week of sharks on @radiolab.bsky.social !!
I’m interviewed on monsters and suspense in episode one, and sharksploitation movies in episode two 🦈🦈🦈
radiolab.org/podcast/maki...
the perfect sock does not exi—
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new orleans
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not sure of the source (emailed from a friend) but 😂
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My daughter often makes me feel like an underachiver
This summer she's interning at my favorite journalism endeavor in AZ, @arizonaagenda.bsky.social I've been a subscriber since they started and have learnt so much from their work about state government works (and doesn't work).
forgot to mention it when the book dropped, but I'm a big fan:
Rebecca R. Scott, "Land of Extraction: Property, Fracking, and Settler Colonialism"
if you're interested in environmental ecocriticism it is well worth your time
nyupress.org/978147982129...
This cracked me up
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The perfect bird feeder doesn't exi--
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This cracked me up
04.06.2025 03:20 — 👍 22 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0And I see you, all you $50 donors. You are making a real difference, and I want you to know that. Every Zoom call with the lawyers, every document we and they file, is because of you and thanks to you.
02.06.2025 01:40 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Natura denuo ex incendiis oritur
20.05.2025 20:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"Literature guides us through complex human emotions, while history teaches us to analyze patterns and consequences."
19.05.2025 14:47 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"As AI continues to influence decision-making across industries, we need people to ask the right questions based on ethical principles. Without these values, we risk creating systems that are efficient and innovative, but unjust and inhumane."
#humanities
still in print too!
www.upress.umn.edu/978081662855...
Now that Monster Theory is turning 30 (!!!!) I've been returning to that work and collabing on some possible futures.
This excerpt from the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Biblical Monsters made my morning.
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education's long shadow
17.05.2025 13:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0a temporarily organized sentient matter collective
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2022: "HBO max" in white font on a purple-blue gradient background. 2023: Just "max" in lowercase white font on a dark purple background. 2024: Same "max" text, now on a bright blue background. 2025 (first image): Same "max" text on a black background. 2025 (second image): Returns to "HBO max" with the "O" stylized like a target or CBS logo, on a dark gradient background—suggesting a full-circle or confused branding journey.
Me, revising a chapter of my book.
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monstering again
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