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.

Urban Encounters

On the art of talking to strangers

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday April 9, 2013

How to Do What You Do?

The life of a professor isn’t what it used to be

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday April 2, 2013

Tastemakers

We like what we like until someone changes our minds

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday March 26, 2013

Going Non-Native

How reading flawed English can make us better writers

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday March 19, 2013

Mother-in-Law Studies

In which she finds fault and expects dinner

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday March 12, 2013

Teaching and Suspense

What do potboilers and classrooms have in common?

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday March 5, 2013

A Workout for the Mind

The gym isn’t just for sweating anymore

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday February 26, 2013

Giving Away the Store

How will online learning affect brick and mortar universities?

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday February 19, 2013

The Lopsided Bias of Unconditional Belief

Why to look beyond initial impressions

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday February 12, 2013

Based on a True Story

How historical fiction alters our perception of the past

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday February 5, 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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