Matt Cohen

Matt Cohen writes about literary history and the history of communication. His book The Networked Wilderness: Communicating in Early New England (University of Minnesota Press, 2010) won the Susan M. Glasscock Interdisciplinary Humanities Book Prize. He is a co-director of the online Walt Whitman Archive, and a co-editor of the Charles W. Chesnutt Archive. He teaches in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and previously taught at the University of Texas at Austin, Duke University, the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, and Virginia Commonwealth University. Cohen's research has been supported by the Huntington Library, the American Council for Learned Societies, the Newberry Library, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He was a history major at Oberlin College and holds a doctorate in American Studies from the College of William & Mary.