Galin Tihanov is the George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London. He has held visiting appointments at Yale University, St. Gallen University, the University of Sao Paulo, Peking University, Seoul National University, and the Higher School of Economics (Moscow). He has published widely on German, Russian, and East-European cultural and intellectual history; his current research is on world literature, cosmopolitanism, and exile. His most recent book is The Birth and Death of Literary Theory: Regimes of Relevance in Russia and Beyond (Stanford University Press, 2019); he is currently writing Cosmopolitanism: A Very Short Introduction for Oxford University Press. Tihanov is elected member of Academia Europaea and sits on the advisory board of the Institute of World Literature at Harvard University; he is also honorary scientific advisor to the Institute of Foreign Literatures at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and past president of the ICLA Committee on Literary Theory.