Robert Cohen

Position
Associate Professor
Affiliated Departments

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Career Highlights
  • Published feature articles and original photographs about adventure sports, travel, and music for various national and regional publications, including Rolling Stone, the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, Boston Magazine, and Backpacker Magazine
  • Founder and host of Ouroboros Story Hour: True Tales of Healing and Altered States, an international, unscripted storytelling platform that features monthly livestreams and edited content of people sharing stories about their experiences with healing/visionary plants, psychedelics, and consciousness-hacking practices.
  • Poet, fiction, and memoir writer
  • Board member of the Society for the Preservation and Advancement of the Harmonica (SPAH)
  • Chair of the Wrentham Board of Selectmen
Education
  • M.A., Stony Brook University
  • B.A., Binghamton University
In Their Own Words

"My goal is for my students to leave my care with a renewed confidence in their curiosity, the courage to write a really bad first draft, and the tools to transform that draft into a finished piece of writing."