Tomás JirsaTomás Jirsa is Associate Professor of Literary Studies at Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. Interested in relations between literature and the visual arts, affect studies, and music video, he recently co-edited (with Ernst van Alphen How to Do Things with Affects: Affective Triggers in Aesthetic Forms and Cultural Practices (2019) and (with Abraham Geil) Reconfiguring the Portrait (2023). In 2015 and 2017, he was awarded a fellowship from IKKM in Weimar; in 2019, he was Visiting Scholar at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. Read More Read Less