Deborah Cohn (Indiana University, Bloomington) was our Roosevelt Visiting Professor from 6 May to 4 June 2024.
Deborah Cohn, Provost Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University Bloomington, is the author of “The Latin American Literary Boom and U.S. Nationalism during the Cold War” (Vanderbilt University Press) and “History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction” (Vanderbilt University Press), as well as coeditor, with Hilary Kahn, of “International Education at the Crossroads” (Indiana University Press), and, with Jon Smith, of “Look Away! The U.S. South in New World Studies” (Duke University Press). Cohn has published numerous articles and book chapters and received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Archive Center, and the American Philosophical Society, among others.
At the RIAS, she continued working on her current research project on “Cold War Humanities: American Studies, Foreign Language Study, and the U.S. National Interest.”
On 24 May 2024, Deborah also held a hybrid roundtable with Joseph Heathcott, organized in collaboration with the Netherlands American Studies Association (NASA).