Professor Boris Groys is a philosopher, essayist, art critic, media theorist, and expert on Soviet-era art and literature, who specialises in the Russian avant-garde. He is a Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University, a Senior Research Fellow at the Staatliche Hochschule fü̈r Gestaltung Karlsruhe, and a professor of philosophy at The European Graduate School. His work engages with traditions from French poststructuralism to modern Russian philosophy, but is situated at the juncture of aesthetics and politics. It is influenced by modern and postmodern philosophers and theoreticians including Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, and Walter Benjamin.