James Cohn
Associate Professor
Department of Arts and Humanities
Quest University
Canada
Biography
Jim Cohn is one of Quest’s founding faculty members. He is the former Coordinator of the Arts and Humanities, and served five years as Quest’s Chief Academic Officer. Adept in the Socratic method of questioning students, and an adamant proponent of the interdisciplinary liberal arts, Jim has led courses in math, lab science, music, visual art, languages, and especially literature and philosophy. For his PhD Jim attended the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, where he worked under the direction of Nobel laureate Saul Bellow and wrote his dissertation on Proust and Saint-Simon.
Research Interest
Arts and Humanities
