Michael Cobb
Visiting Associate Professor
- Degrees
- Cornell University,
Ph.D. - Cornell University,
M.A. - University of Chicago,
A.M. - Colby College,
B.A.
Bio
Michael Cobb joins the Cornell English Department as a Visiting Associate Professor of English. He is also Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto, where he teaches courses in American literature, queer literature, queer theory, literary theory, and critical race theory. He was awarded the University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and Science Outstanding Teaching Award in 2009. Michael has published in journals such as: Boundary 2, Social Text, GLQ, Criticism, Callaloo, Western Humanities Review, and South Atlantic Quarterly. He is the author of God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence, New York: New York University Press, 2007, which was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title, and Racial Blasphemies: Race and Religious Irreverance in American Literature, New York: Routledge, 2005.
Research and Teaching Interests
- Queer Theory
- American Literature
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- African American Literature
- Critical Race Theory
- Literary Theory
- Cultural Studies
- Religious Studies
- Law and Literature
Current Projects
- Single: Lonely, Impossible, Empty, and Alone (book)
- Pioneer Sex, a book on sexuality, American religious sects, and the logics and poetics of the frontier