Igor Štiks is a professor at the Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade and a senior research fellow at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. He previously worked and taught at the universities in Edinburgh, Ljubljana, Sarajevo and Graz. Earning his PhD at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris and Northwestern University, Štiks later published a monograph, Nations and Citizens in Yugoslavia and the Post-Yugoslav States: One Hundred Years of Citizenship (Bloomsbury). Together with Jo Shaw he edited the collections Citizenship after Yugoslavia (Routledge) and Citizenship Rights (Ashgate), and, with Srećko Horvat, Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism: Radical Politics after Yugoslavia (Verso). Recently he published studies Activist aesthetics (Aktivistička estetika) and The New Balkan Left: Struggles, Successes, Failures (co-authored with K. Stojaković). His novels, A Castle in Romagna, The Judgment of Richard Richter (originally published as Elijah’s Chair) and W have been translated into 15 languages. He was honoured with the French distinction Chevalier des arts et des lettres.