Tom Cohen is Emeritus Professor of English and co-director of the Institute on Critical Climate Change at the University at Albany. He is the author of Anti-Mimesis From Plato to Hitchcock (Cambridge 1994), Ideology and Inscription: Cultural Studies after Benjamin, De Man, and Bahktin (Cambridge 1998), and Hitchcock's Cryptonymies, vols. 1 & 2 (UMinn 2005). His most recent titles, co-authored with Claire Colebrook and J. Hillis Miller, are Theory and the Disappearing Future (Routledge 2011), and its companion volume, Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols (OHP 2016). He is also the editor of Derrida and the Humanities (Cambridge 2003) and co-editor of Material Events: Paul de Man and the Afterlife of Theory (UMinn 2001).