Debra Rae Cohen

Assistant Professor

Office: 308 Humanities Office Building
(803) 777-2133
drc@sc.edu

Education

Ph.D., University of Mississippi, 2000
B.A., Yale University, 1976

Specialization Areas

• Twentieth-Century British Literature
• Gender Studies
• Modernism and Media
• World War One
• Popular Music Studies

Recent Courses

See Course Descriptions for detailed information.

Current Research Project(s)

I spent many years as a journalist and critic before returning to academe, and much of my current work is concerned with the conversations and intersections between Modernist literature and the mass media of the period. I just finished co-editing a collection entitled Broadcasting Modernism, about the centrality of radio to Modernist literary culture, and am now at work on a book tentatively entitled "Rebecca West and the Mapping of Modernity," which examines West as a limit case for Modernist historiography. Another long-term project is an exploration of the cultural discourses of the cover song.

Recent Publications

Remapping the Home Front: Locating Citizenship in British Women’s Great War Fiction. Northeastern University Press, 2002.

Forthcoming: Broadcasting Modernism. Edited with Michael Coyle and Jane A. Lewty. University Press of Florida, 2009.

“Technology, Media and Culture in the Space Between.” Edited special issue. The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945 3.1, 2007.

Cluster on “Modernist Authenticities.” Co-edited special section. Modernism/Modernity 14.3, 2007.

“Sheepish Modernism: Rebecca West, the Adam Brothers, and the Taxonomies of Criticism.” Rebecca West Today: Contemporary Critical Approaches, edited by Bernard Schweizer. U of Delaware P, 2006.

“Culture and the ‘Cathedral’: Tourism as Potlatch in One of Ours.” Cather Studies 6: History, Memory and War, edited by Steven Trout.
U of Nebraska P, 2006.

Reviews

Modernism/Modernity, Twentieth-Century Literature, Clio, Journal of Popular Music Studies