Professor Dima can discuss issues with African cinema, French Cinema with a focus on New Wave, film theory, the films of Alfred Hitchcock, American auteur cinema such as Tarantino films, television studies, theater of the absurd, and zombies.Ìý He also teaches a course about soccer in Africa.

Cohan is a highly regarded writer, having written many books includingÌýbooks include Ìý(1988, co-authored with Linda M. Shires),ÌýÌý(1993, co-edited with Ina Rae Hark),ÌýÌý(1997, co-edited with Ina Rae Hark),Ìý(1997),ÌýÌý(2001),ÌýÌý(2005),ÌýÌý(2008)ÌýÌý(2010),ÌýHollywood by HollywoodÌý(2018), andÌýRoutledge Film Guidebooks: Hollywood MusicalsÌý(2019).

His essays have appeared inÌýCamera Obscura, Screen, andÌýCinema JournalÌýas well as many anthologies. Since retiring he has written essays onÌýDanny Kaye’s queer persona,ÌýThe Boys in the Band, Billy Wilder’s apartment plots, Marilyn Monroe biopics, the cold war cycle of musicals set in Paris, Bob Hope’s comedian musicals, Judy Garland as a cult star, Esther Williams’s Latin lovers, Queer Hollywood Musicals of the 1940s, the 1937ÌýA Star Is Born, andÌýFosse/Verdon. At present he is starting a new book that examines the connections between film noir and the woman’s film of the 1940s and 1950s. His work has been translated into French, Spanish, Chinese, and Korean.

He was awarded the Chancellor’s Citation for Exceptional Academic Achievement in 2006 and the Graduate School’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Education in 2014. He was President of the Society of Cinema Studies from 2015-2017.