https://jacohen.net Joshua A. Cohen Mon, 09 Jan 2023 05:41:16 +0000 https://jacohen.net en https://jacohen.net/About Mon, 09 Jan 2023 05:41:16 +0000 Joshua A. Cohen https://jacohen.net/About <img width="300" height="168" width_o="300" height_o="168" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7de2f36d9069ae2cb585e85e97b572d65eb0565bb841352e92c6b0f276d55a4e/download.jpeg" data-mid="214407862" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/7de2f36d9069ae2cb585e85e97b572d65eb0565bb841352e92c6b0f276d55a4e/download.jpeg" />&nbsp; I’m a writer, translator, and religion scholar. I teach classes on religion, mysticism, monks, blood, and Freud at a small liberal arts college, and I’ve published essays and reviews in magazines like Salvage, Jewish Currents, Boston Review, Lapham’s Quarterly, and The Point.&nbsp;I live in Brooklyn with two pitbulls (one human, one canine).&nbsp; Recent and semi-recent writing includes an essay (written with a friend) on&nbsp;dirty work; a review of two books arguing for&nbsp;diasporism; a conversation about international law and the Nakba; a review of a book arguing for&nbsp;diasporic nationalism; and a history of German linguists who&nbsp;love their mothertongue. I’m currently finishing my first academic book on scenes of unwilling conversion in medieval and early modern writing. I’m also currently finishing a translation of Jean-Luc Lagarce’s play&nbsp;Juste la fin du monde; meanwhile here’s a short recent translation I did. To commission me, or say hi (or worse): jccohen1@gmail.com. (Photo credit: John Speirs.)