Paula Marantz Cohen

Paula Marantz Cohen is a distinguished professor of English and Dean Emerita of the Honors College at Drexel University. She is the author of many books, including Jane Austen in Scarsdale: Or Love, Death and the SATs and What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale of Henry James and Jack the Ripper. Her most recent book is Talking Cure: An Essay on the Civilizing Power of Conversation.

Making Excuses

We love to complain, but is that all we’re doing?

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday August 27, 2013

Magic Pills

The story of the making of a miracle drug

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday August 20, 2013

In Defense of “Like”

The word is, like, not as pointless as you think

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday August 13, 2013

On Being Awesome

Sometimes we encounter the quality in curious places

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday August 6, 2013

Be Careful What You Wish For

The decline of the humanities is a consequence of their success

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday July 30, 2013

They All Want Mr. (Ms.) Darcy

Life lessons from Jane Austen

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday July 23, 2013

Love Thy Students

Teaching as an emotional experience

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday July 16, 2013

Of Love and Learning Online

What would Jane Austen say?

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday July 9, 2013

Mission Impossible?

Why groupthink won’t save the humanities

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday July 2, 2013

Germ Theory

Finding yourself in literature

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday June 25, 2013

The Visual Turn

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Thursday January 8, 2026

Injured Merit

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Thursday January 28, 2021

This Side of Paradise

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Monday December 3, 2018

On Hospitality

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Wednesday July 18, 2018

The Trouble at Yale

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday November 24, 2015

You’re in Denial

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday April 22, 2014

Class Therapy

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday April 15, 2014

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