Noah Cohan's research and teaching are oriented to the intersection of American fan cultures, sports, and narratives, particularly as they pertain to race and gender.
Cohan’s recent course offerings include “American Mixtape: Narrative, Memory, and Culture,” “Sports & Society: Histories and Cultures of American Sports,” “The Black Athlete in American Literature: From Frederick Douglass to LeBron James,” and “Methods and Visions: Audiences, Spectators, & Fans.” Cohan’s book, We Average Unbeautiful Watchers: Fan Narratives and the Reading of American Sports, was published in July 2019 by the University of Nebraska Press. He is the co-editor of Sport in the University, a special issue of the journal American Studies (Fall 2016), the founding coordinator of the Sports Studies Caucus of the American Studies Association, and co-convener of the AMCS program initiative in Sports and Society: Culture, Power, and Identity. He is the founding coordinator of the Sports Studies Caucus of the American Studies Association.
