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“Cohen has in many ways defined the field of study known, following his seminal publication of the same title, as ‘Monster Theory’ . . . Cohen’s book, constructing images of communities that reconfigured themselves as ‘imperiled’ through the invention of fictitious enemies (152), is therefore not only a useful lens through which we might view the distant past, but (a rare and vital quality) also one through which we might reconsider our own troubled present.” –Asa Simon Mittman, Studies in the Age of Chaucer
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is Professor of English at the George Washington University in Washington, DC. His work has long explored identity, postcoloniality and monstrosity in medieval literature. He is the author of Medieval Identity Machines and Of Giants, and the editor of The Postcolonial Middle Ages, Thinking the Limits of the Body, Becoming Male in the Middle Ages, and Monster Theory. His essays have appeared in numerous journals, including Speculum, New Literary History, Exemplaria, and the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
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