Monica Cohen

Monica Feinberg Cohen is a Term Lecturer in English at Barnard College, specializing in fiction of the long nineteenth century. Her academic affiliations include the Departments of Comparative Literature and English, as well as the First Year Foundation.

• Education: B.A. from Yale, Ph.D. from Columbia

Her research focuses on Victorian culture, gender studies, book history, media studies, the nineteenth-century stage, and adaptation theory. She has authored two influential books: Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel (Cambridge UP, 1998) and Pirating Fictions (University of Virginia Press, 2018), the latter being translated into Russian by Academic Studies Press.

Cohen's scholarly contributions include articles in

• Dickens Studies Annual
• Journal of Victorian Culture
• Novel: A Forum on Fiction
• Victorian Studies

and entries in reference works like the Oxford Bibliographies On-line and MLA Guides to Teaching Austen’s novels. She is currently preparing the introduction and notes for Oxford UP’s updated reissue of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and guest-edited a 2022 special issue of the Victorian Popular Fictions Journal on inclusive literary markets.

Awards & Roles

• 2009 Tony Hilfer Prize
• MLA Special Delegate (2013–2016) representing Women in the Profession