GSOE Female Students Library 01

Judith Beth Cohen

Dr. Cohen teaches in the Adult Learning PhD Program and is a prolific writer

Faculty Judith Cohen Judith Beth Cohen
Professional Title:  Professor
Areas of Academic Focus and Expertise:  
Women in post-colonial fiction; body-based pedagogies; adult learning; the teaching of writing
Area of Work and Concentration at Lesley:  
Adult learning, research
Representative List of Recent Courses Taught:  
Current courses delivered through a competency based model include: Interdisciplinary Seminar, Adult Learning and Development, Narrative Research methods. She has developed courses in professional writing, literature and film, and place-based travel study experiences.
Education:  Ph.D., Union Institute; M.A., University of Michigan; B.A., University of Michigan
Representative List of Recent Publications / Exhibitions:  

  • "Representations of Women in Selected Post-Colonial Fiction," Lesley University Research Day, March, 2009.
  • "Yoga and Higher Education" (One hour workshop) Association for Integrative Studies 29th Annual Conference, Tempe, Arizona, September 27-30, 2007.
  • Included in Voices of Bi-Polar Disorder, La Chance Publishing: New York, 2010, p.99-102.
  • "The Missing Body: Yoga and Higher Education," JAEPL The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning, Volume 12. Winter 2006-07, p.14-24.
  • "Late for School: Stories of Transformation in an Adult Education Program," Journal of Transformative Education, Vol.1, No.x, 2003, Sage Publications, 1-11.

Dr. Cohen has been designing and teaching in innovative programs for adults since 1970. These include low residency programs at the bachelor's, master's and doctoral levels. A writer of fiction and creative non-fiction, she has published a novel and many short stories. Dr. Cohen has also taught at Harvard University, the Bard College Institute on Writing and Thinking, and Goddard College in Vermont. She believes in infusing active, body-based learning strategies into her teaching and has most recently been working in hybrid environments that combine face to face intensives and online learning. She is the author of Seasons, a novel, available from The Permanent Press.

jcohen@lesley.edu