Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is Professor of English and Director of the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute at the George Washington University. His most recent book is Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman (2015). The reflections offered in this essay owe much to the conversations he has been having with Julian Yates, with whom he is currently collaborating on a project entitled “Noah’s Arkive: Groundless Reading from the Beginning to the End of Time.”