Dr. Margaret Cohen

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Margaret Cohen is Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French Language, Literature, and Civilization and a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. She specializes in transatlantic literary culture and modernity, with particular expertise in the history of the novel and the imagination of the oceans. Her recent book, "Underwater Eye: The Movie Camera Opened Depths Unleashed New Realms of Fantasy" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022), was named an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice. Other notable works include "The Novel Sea" (2010), which received the Louis R. Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and "Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris Surrealist Revolution" (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993). She is also involved in developing ocean humanities education, having secured NEH grants to collaborate with the ocean sciences community at Stanford. Cohen's current research focuses on integrating ocean science with the humanities, particularly through the lens of her forthcoming project, "Ocean Science and Ocean Humanities: Case Monterey Bay."

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