Mitja Velikonja is the author of eight books and coauthor and editor of several more. He is a Professor for Cultural Studies and head of Center for Cultural and Religious Studies at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and has recently been a full-time visiting professor in Krakow, St. Petersburg, Rijeka, at Columbia University in New York and Yale University as well as Fulbright visiting researcher in Philadelphia, The Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies, and NYU. His recent books on post-socialist graffiti and street art from former Yugoslavia have been translated and sold widely in the region, including in Ukraine. He was the first professor from outside the country to lecture there in spring 2023, and has been one of the few visiting professors to teach in the country during the war against Russia ongoing since February 2022.