Petar Odak is a Visiting Professor at Central European University and a Visiting Fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He holds a Joint Doctorate in Philosophy and Humanities from the Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Utrecht University, and the Department of Gender Studies, Central European University. His research and teaching posts include Freie Universität Berlin, New York University, and Al-Quds Bard College. Research interests: psychoanalysis, queer theory, and affect; literary theory and trauma studies; post/socialist timespace.