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Jeffrey J Cohen
@jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social
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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 .. more

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · 5d
it's true

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · 7d
Toronto in two days for #MLA26 is going to be a hard transition

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · 11d
happy new year
may it be brilliant

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 12d
So much of any year is flammable

Naomi Shihab Nye, "Burning the Old Year"
#everynightapoem

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · 12d
"Emphasizing pleasure and fun" ... two entry affects for expanding the imagination, opening up the possible, and widening the world. What has a better ROI on than that?
ghostingdani.bsky.social Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 12d
This might be too spicy for a teaching statement but I needed to get the words out before I could actually say what I wanted to say.
Emphasizing pleasure and fun seems like a necessary course corrective for the overwhelming narratives that currently surround higher education, especially for students like mine who are quite often attending college specifically for material and class advancement. In a time when “return on investment” has become an inescapable buzzword, when the everyday experience of living has been transformed into an unending “grindset,” and when attending my class is often in conflict with taking another shift at work to help make rent, my students could easily become frustrated with an English course that doesn’t offer instant skills for making money. This is especially true with immigrant or international students, students who are working class, or students who are the first in their families to attend university.

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Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 12d
This might be too spicy for a teaching statement but I needed to get the words out before I could actually say what I wanted to say.
Emphasizing pleasure and fun seems like a necessary course corrective for the overwhelming narratives that currently surround higher education, especially for students like mine who are quite often attending college specifically for material and class advancement. In a time when “return on investment” has become an inescapable buzzword, when the everyday experience of living has been transformed into an unending “grindset,” and when attending my class is often in conflict with taking another shift at work to help make rent, my students could easily become frustrated with an English course that doesn’t offer instant skills for making money. This is especially true with immigrant or international students, students who are working class, or students who are the first in their families to attend university.

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · 12d
every since humans were dwelling in Plato's cave they have been entranced by screen based entertainments

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · 12d
white board
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white board
end of year rituals
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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · Dec 6
a neon sign boneyard in Vegas

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · Dec 1
this essay title 👹🧌

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · Dec 1
Me in one image.
Two jars, the first with very few coins says swear jar. The other jar has May coins and says: telling people about history when I wasn’t asked jar

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · Nov 23
Del Toro, and Del Toro, and Del Toro
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded frame;
And all our Frankensteins have lighted fools
The way to boring films.
Frankenstein poster

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Rob Townsend @rbtownsend.bsky.social · Nov 23
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · Nov 21
finally some sun this morning in PHX

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𝔸 𝕕 𝕖 𝕝 𝕖 @rhody.bsky.social · Nov 20
@stoneclub.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article...
'Merlin's Mound' to be restored and archaeological probe launched
Marlborough College has been given the go-ahead to remove 20th Century buildings from the mound.
www.bbc.com

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · Nov 20
terrible if wholly predictable environmental news for Alaska

that's my son @alexcohen.bsky.social with the spot on quote

apnews.com/article/alas...

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Department of English at Arizona State University @asuenglish.bsky.social · Nov 17
ICYMI: ASU English alumni @leahenewsom.bsky.social, Daryn Orr and Sharon Enck along with other grads from The College chatted with Dean @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social about how their #ASUHumanities degrees prepared them for careers and beyond.

Watch: t.co/vSRoG9LOOV
An image of a panel of ASU humanities alumni discussing their careers on Oct. 24, in a session moderated by Dean of Humanities Jeffrey Cohen. Photo by Meghan Finnerty/ASU.

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · Nov 3
good morning from Phoenix

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · Nov 2
it’s from an essay reprinted in this excellent collection on zombies 🧟‍♂️

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · Nov 2
For a project in progress I’ve had to return to some older writing and this line really hits years later

“Apocalypse is a failure of the imagination, a giving up on the future instead of a commitment to the difficult work of composing a better present.”

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · Nov 1
me after a long day of writing

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · Nov 1
thinking of making a donation so they can afford to update

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · Nov 1
I left my former institution in 2018, and yet the department of English there still has me listed, looking dapper in a flannel shirt from maybe ten years before that (c. 2008)

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · Nov 1
we are going to need a bigger boat

contingentmagazine.org/2025/10/22/a...

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daniel @dnl.ink · Nov 1
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE

SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM

UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · Oct 31
the agitprop continues
www.youtube.com/watch?v=92zw...
Dean Jeffrey Cohen on humanities : Arizona State University (ASU)
YouTube video by ASU News
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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · Oct 31
Three decades later, Monster Theory has never been out of print.

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · Oct 31
Shortly after I completed my dissertation, serving in a three year part position with a clock ticking, I invited a group of scholars to think together about monsters and perhaps imagine a discipline that might be labeled “Monster Studies.” The book that resulted was called Monster Theory.