Career
He has published numerous important books on Alfred Hitchcock. Cohen has also written on other aspects of film studies, comparative literature, theory, cultural studies and on Paul de Manitoba He is the editor (with Claire Colebrook) of the Critical Climate Change Book Series at Open Humanities Press and has lectured and taught internationally, including in China and Fulbright sponsored work in Thailand.
He has been awarded a Distinguished Visiting Professorship by Shanghai Municipality in Shanghai.
Cohen"s education consists of a Master of Arts from the University of Chicago in Comparative Literature and a Doctor of Philosophy from Yale University in Comparative Literature. Thus Cohen’s work began in literary theory and cultural politics but he has then explored as a philosopher areas of critical theory, cinema studies, digital media and climate change.