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.

Germ Theory

Finding yourself in literature

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday June 25, 2013

Counterculture Culture

Why the humanities matter

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday June 18, 2013

Too Much Information

The pleasure of figuring things out for yourself

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday June 11, 2013

Keeping Score

How test prep widens the achievement gap

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday June 4, 2013

It’s Academic

Colleges need to rethink their priorities

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday May 28, 2013

The Teaching Cure

What teachers can learn from therapists

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday May 21, 2013

Existential Teaching

Exploring “big questions” in the classroom

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday May 14, 2013

Love the One You’re With

Sometimes we must settle for approximations

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday May 7, 2013

Hidden Meanings

Who we are colors how we understand language

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday April 30, 2013

The Search for Wonder

A lasting lesson on how to view the world

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday April 23, 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

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