Dr. Phil Cohen,University of Texas, Arlington

Dr. Philip Cohen is the Dean of the Graduate School, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, and a Professor of English at the University of Texas at Arlington. He holds degrees from American University, the University of Southern California, and the University of Delaware. Before becoming Dean, he served as Associate Dean of the Graduate School and Chair of the English Department. Cohen is a member of the executive committee member of the Council of Southern Graduate Schools, past Vice President and current President of the Association of Texas Graduate Schools, a member of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s Graduate Education Advisory Committee and has served on the Council of Graduate School’s Dissertation Awards Committee. Cohen has published widely on American literature, William Faulkner, and on the relationship between literary studies and textual scholarship and editorial theory. His scholarly work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.