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English
416 Hall of Languages
Phone: 315-443-9476

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Steven Cohan CV

Steven Cohan

Professor of English

Professor Steven Cohan teaches courses and supervises graduate research in film studies, popular culture, gender and sexualities, and cultural studies. His books include Telling Stories: A Theoretical Analysis of Narrative (1988, co-authored with Linda M. Shires), Screening the Male (1993, co-edited with Ina Rae Hark), The Road Movie Book (1997, co-edited with Ina Rae Hark), Masked Men: Masculinity and the Movies in the Fifties (1997), Hollywood Musicals, The Film Reader (2001), Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical (2005), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2008) and The Sound of Musicals (2010). His essays have appeared in Camera Obscura and Screen, as well as collections such as Out Takes: Film and Queer Theory (1999), Reinventing Film Studies (2000), Key Frames: Popular Film and Cultural Studies (2001), The Trouble with Men: Masculinities in European and Hollywood Cinema (2004), and Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture (2007). Some of his work has been translated into Spanish, Korean, and Chinese. At present he is editing a collection of essays on the musical for the British Film Institute, to be published in conjunction with a year-long series on the global musical, and he has begun researching a new book on films about filmmaking tentatively entitled Self-reflexive Hollywood. He was awarded the Chancellor's Citation for Exceptional Academic Achievement in 2006.