Deborah Cohn

I am an interdisciplinary scholar whose main areas of study are American studies (with transnational and hemispheric orientations), Latin American studies, cold war studies, and cultural diplomacy, among others. I am the author of The Latin American Literary Boom and U.S. Nationalism during the Cold War (Vanderbilt UP) and History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction (Vanderbilt UP), as well as coeditor, with Hilary Kahn, of International Education at the Crossroads (Indiana UP), and, with Jon Smith, of Look Away! The U.S. South in New World Studies (Duke UP). I have received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Archive Center, the American Philosophical Society, and the Harry Ransom Center, among other sources. My current research project is “American Studies, Modern Language Study, and the National Defense during the Cold War.”