Margaret Cohen

About

Margaret Cohen is the Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French Language, Literature, and Civilization, and a Professor of English at Stanford University, with courtesy appointments in French, Italian, and Comparative Literature. She is a scholar specializing in transatlantic literary and cultural modernity, with particular expertise in the history of the novel and the oceans. Her work explores the intersections of literature, visual culture, and oceanic themes, contributing significantly to the interdisciplinary field of ocean humanities. Her notable publications include The Underwater Eye: How the Movie Camera Opened the Depths and Unleashed New Realms of Fantasy, which was named an outstanding academic title of the year by Choice, and The Novel and the Sea, awarded the Louis R. Gottschalk Prize and the George and Barbara Perkins Prize. Cohen has also authored Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution and The Sentimental Education of the Novel, the latter receiving the MLA's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize. She has co-edited collections on the European novel and edited translations and editions of significant literary works. Her current work involves building intellectual infrastructures for the interdisciplinary field of ocean humanities. She has received multiple awards and grants, including an NEH Public Humanities Initiatives Grant to develop an oceanic humanities curriculum. Cohen is actively engaged in fostering connections between…

Research topics

• History
• Ancient history
• Geography
• Psychology
• Mathematics education
• Visual arts
• Aesthetics
• Cognitive science
• Art

Selected publications

• Panoramic Literature and the Invention of Everyday Genres

  University of California Press eBooks · 2023 · 7 citations

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• Cooperative Learning in Educational Psychology

  Routledge eBooks · 2023 · 2 citations

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  The educational psychology literature provides the filter that rely upon for direction. This filter guides design of instructional activities that require students to use, apply, and write about course concepts. The educational psychology literature affirms the importance of the social context to learning by exploring the role of the teacher and the influence of one’s peers on the process of learning. Viewed holistically, the educational psychology literature is foundational to how learning-cent…

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• Iron Age Figurines from Philistia and Phoenicia: A Response

  BRILL eBooks · 2021 · 2 citations

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  This response to Nunn and Ben-Shlomo draws upon comparisons with figurines from northern Israel and Jordan to address several issues raised by the authors, such as how to define corpora and establish typological categories.

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• A Cultural History of the Sea in the Age of Empire

  Bloomsbury Publishing Plc eBooks · 2021-01-01 · 1 citations

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  <JATS1:p>Across the 19th century, maritime globalization expanded at a hitherto unimaginable pace, transforming transport and communications over the seas into oceanic networks at a planetary scale. These networks shaped culture in its most expansive sense, affecting seafaring, warfare, empire, commerce, communications, passenger travel, leisure and science. Authors recover the sea experience of people and groups entangled with and yet neglected in an earlier generation of maritime history focus…

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• The Novel and the Sea

  Princeton University Press eBooks · 2021-06-08 · 1 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Roger Ebbatson

  Lancaster University

  49 shared

• Valentine Cunningham

  University of Oxford

  49 shared

• Rosemary Ashton

  49 shared

• Andrew Hammond

  University of Oxford

  49 shared

• M. Levinson

  University of Alberta

  16 shared

• Kenneth A. Ristau

  16 shared

• Steven L. McKenzie

  16 shared

• Deuteronomistic History -Bernard

  Baylor University

  16 shared

Education

• Library Science

  Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science

Awards & honors

• Outstanding academic title of the year by Choice for The Und…
• Louis R. Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for Eigh…
• George and Barbara Perkins Prize from the International Soci…
• Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Priz…
• NEH Public Humanities Initiatives Grant (2025)

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