Sande Cohen has taught at Brown University, UCLA and California Institute of the Arts. He has published numerous articles in historical and cultural theory, and is the author of Historical Culture (UC Press, 1986); Academia and the Luster of Capital (Minnesota, 1993); Passive Nihilism (St. Martins, 1998); and History Out of Joint (Johns Hopkins Press, 2007). He is also the co-editor of French Theory in America with Sylvere Lotringer (Routledge, 2001) and Consumption in an Age of Information with R. Rutsky (Berg, 2005). A special issue of Rethinking History, (12, no4, 2008) was devoted to Cohen’s work.