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Forging Humanities Futures: A Conversation with Jeffrey Cohen

Thursday, 11 September 2025
12:00-1:00pm, CST (virtual)
Join us for an engaging interview with Dr. Jeffrey J. Cohen, Dean of Humanities at Arizona State University. We’ll discuss the numerous successful strategies Dr. Cohen has used at ASU to advocate for the humanities, including communications, programming, curricular development, and research support. At this challenging time in higher ed, Dr. Cohen offers an exciting perspective and tangible ideas for positive and hopeful action.  
 

About Jeffrey Cohen

Jeffrey J. Cohen is Dean of Humanities at Arizona State University and former co-president of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, the largest professional organization in the environmental humanities. His research examines strange and beautiful things that challenge the imagination, phenomena that are alien and intimate at once. Cohen is widely published in the fields of medieval studies, monster theory, and the environmental humanities. His book Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman received the 2017 René Wellek Prize in comparative literature from the American Comparative Literature Association. In collaboration with Lindy Elkins-Tanton he co-wrote the book Earth, a re-examination of our widest home from the perspectives of a planetary scientist and a literary humanist. With environmental humanities scholar Stephanie Foote he co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities. With Julian Yates he co-wrote Noah's Arkive (2023).
For more information, see https://www.jeffreyjeromecohen.com/
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