Emma R. Cohen

is a writer and dancer from Chicago. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Times Literary Supplement, Los Angeles Review of Books, and BOMB, among other outlets. As a performer she has worked with artists including Gillian Walsh, Neal Medlyn, and Ligia Lewis. She is a PhD candidate in English at Northwestern University.

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Recent + Upcoming

Writing

“Ralph Lemon’s Tell it anyway, 2024” in BOMB

“Picturing Disease and Desire” in Momus

“Olga Tokarczuk’s The Empusium” in The Brooklyn Rail

“Solidarity, Not Sameness” (a review of Xi Xi’s Mourning a Breast) in the Times Literary Supplement

Interview with Hannah Levene on Greasepaint in BOMB

“In Chicago, Keeping the Heritage of Black Dance Moving” in the New York Times

“Jenn Shapland’s Thin Skin” in The Brooklyn Rail

“Performing the Patient: On Emily Wells’s ‘A Matter of Appearance’” in LA Review of Books

Performance

Friday Night Lights, Gillian Walsh, Dia, Nov. 16, 2024

Running on Cargo