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.

The Visual Turn

Painting portraits of other people can tell us truths about ourselves

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Thursday January 8, 2026

Injured Merit

How a righteous sense of grievance can lead to a better world

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Thursday January 28, 2021

This Side of Paradise

Aging has its rewards until it doesn’t. I am ready to contemplate the end but not, yet, to give in to it

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Monday December 3, 2018

On Hospitality

Perspectives on borders and border-crossing

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Wednesday July 18, 2018

The Trouble at Yale

Why an intellectual space requires a safe space

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday November 24, 2015

Telling Stories about Teaching

The Last Column

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday April 29, 2014

You’re in Denial

And so is everyone else

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday April 22, 2014

Class Therapy

How the Loman family helped my students understand their own

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday April 15, 2014

Evil, Evil Everywhere

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday January 28, 2014

The Rich Are Not Different

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday January 21, 2014

Just Ask

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday January 14, 2014

Brilliant

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday January 7, 2014

Painful Separation

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday December 31, 2013

Self-Justification

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday December 17, 2013

A Question of Worth

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday December 10, 2013

Godless Art

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday December 3, 2013

The Art of Obsession

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday November 26, 2013

Study Abroad

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday November 19, 2013

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