Adjunct Professor
Office: Greene Building
Email:
Phone: 518-276-4066

Bio

Selma Cohen is an educator, and an academic copyeditor and translator. She earned her Licentiate in Modern Literature from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. Furthering her academic pursuits, she was awarded a Master of Arts and a Ph.D. in Spanish and Latin American Literature from Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey.

With professional expertise as an academic translator and copyeditor, Cohen has contributed to numerous book-length manuscripts, book chapters, articles, and conference papers.

Throughout her academic career, Cohen has taught a wide array of undergraduate and graduate courses in Spanish language and Latin American literature and culture at Rutgers University and the University of Albany, SUNY. Since joining Rensselaer School of Architecture in 2022, as a faculty member in the school’s Latin America semester-abroad program, she has taught courses in Latin American Studies at the Troy Campus and Travel Narratives while abroad.

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