Dr. Tomás Jirsa

Tomás Jirsa is Associate Professor of Literary Studies at Palacký University Olomouc, Czechia. Interested in relations between literature and the visual arts, affect theory, and music video studies, his recent publications include Disformations: Affects, Media, Literature (Bloomsbury, 2021); Reconfiguring the Portrait (2023, co-edited with Abraham Geil), and How to Do Things with Affects: Affective Triggers in Aesthetic Forms and Cultural Practices (2019, co-edited with Ernst van Alphen). In...See more

Tomás Jirsa is Associate Professor of Literary Studies at Palacký University Olomouc, Czechia. Interested in relations between literature and the visual arts, affect theory, and music video studies, his recent publications include Disformations: Affects, Media, Literature (Bloomsbury, 2021); Reconfiguring the Portrait (2023, co-edited with Abraham Geil), and How to Do Things with Affects: Affective Triggers in Aesthetic Forms and Cultural Practices (2019, co-edited with Ernst van Alphen). 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. See less