Elisha Cohn

Elisha Cohn is associate professor in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University, where she teaches Victorian literature, novel theory, and medical humanities. She is the author of Milieu: A Creaturely Theory of the Contemporary Novel, forthcoming in early 2025, and Still Life: Suspended Development in the Victorian Novel (2016). She is also, recently, adopter of two kittens.


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It’s Not Only Human Stories Worth Telling: Sigrid Nunez’s Animal Novels

Why are animals so central to Sigrid Nunez’s thinking about the status of fiction?