by Jenae Cohn | Jun 20, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
Yesterday, I sat at the desk, hunched over a piece of wax thread, and a stack of papers. I was supposed to be making a coptic book, a medieval style of book where the papers are woven together to create an organically coiled binding. The process is strenuous,...
by Jenae Cohn | Dec 16, 2013 | Literature, Pedagogy, Personal
I’m a little self-conscious about the title of this post, mostly because I don’t intend to talk Ezra Pound or Modernism here and in fact, I find both the poet and the movement a little tiresome. This is for a number of reasons, primary of which is the...
by Jenae Cohn | Sep 11, 2012 | Personal, Uncategorized
In elementary school, I used to create binders for each class I took. I slipped hand-drawn covers into the plastic pockets at the front of each: “MATH!!” swirled in purple glitter or “HISTORY!!” emblazoned with heart stickers and rainbows. The...
by Jenae Cohn | Jun 18, 2012 | Personal, Web Culture Musings
I’m not used to waiting for things. I would wager to say that most of us who grew up in the digital age are not used to waiting for things either. Information is rapid, instant, and instantly gratifying. Given this fact, it is easy to forget how much labor goes...
by Jenae Cohn | Apr 4, 2012 | Literature, Pedagogy, Personal, Web Culture Musings
I had the enormous pleasure of spending the past week (i.e. my spring break) in San Diego and Los Angeles, taking plenty of time away from the computer and gazing at beaches (and even seals!) Alas, a new quarter has begun and I’m back to reality and gazing...
