Tomáš Jirsa is Associate Professor of Literary Studies at Palacký University Olomouc, Czechia, where he directs the PhD Program in Film, Television, and Theater Studies. Interested in music video studies, affect theory, and media philosophy, his recent publications include Disformations: Affects, Media, Literature (Bloomsbury, 2021); Traveling Music Videos (Bloomsbury, 2024), co-edited with Mathias Korsgaard; Reconfiguring the Portrait (Edinburgh University Press, 2023), co-edited with Abraham Geil; and How to Do Things with Affects (Brill, 2019), co-edited with Ernst van Alphen. His articles can be found in journals such as Music, Sound, and the Moving Image; Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung; Central Europe; and Iluminace. In 2015 and 2017, he was awarded a junior fellowship from The International Research Institute for Cultural Techniques and Media Philosophy (IKKM) at Bauhaus University, Weimar; in 2019, he was Visiting Scholar at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA).
