Kohn, Robert E.

Robert E. Kohn, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, changed his field of study to literary and art criticism after his retirement in 1990. He has published more than twenty-five journal articles in the new field, plus a book on Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and a book applying Prudentius's fifth century Latin classic, Psychomachia, to present day American politics. Professor Kohn passed away on April 5, 2014.