Sanja Bahun is Professor in the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, University of Essex. She is the author of Modernism and Melancholia: Writing as Countermourning (2014), and co-editor of numerous volumes, including The Avant-garde and the Margin (2006) and Cinema, State Socialism and Society in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1917-1989 (2014). She has published widely on subjects ranging from international modernism, through psychoanalysis, intellectual history, theory of the comparative arts, to world literature and transitional justice. Her current research on the concept of home in modernism is funded by the Leverhulme Trust UK.