Fred Astaire: The Conference
ORIEL COLLEGE OXFORD
21–24 JUNE 2008

Paula Marantz Cohen

Paula Marantz Cohen is Distinguished Professor of English at Drexel University, where she teaches courses in literature, film, and creative writing. She holds a B.A. in French and English from Yale College and a Ph.D. in English Literature from Columbia University. She is the author of three novels, including, most recently, Jane Austen in Scarsdale or Love, Death, and the SATs, and four nonfiction books, including Alfred Hitchcock: The Legacy of Victorianism and Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth.

Cohen is the host of “The Drexel InterView,” a cable TV show broadcast out of Philadelphia. Her essays, stories, and film and book reviews have appeared in The Yale Review, Raritan, The American Scholar, The Michigan Quarterly Review, The Hudson Review, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Times Literary Supplement. She is also a co-editor of The Journal of Modern Literature.

She lives in Moorestown, N.J. with her husband and two children.

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