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Madina Tlostanova is a decolonial feminist thinker and fiction writer, professor of postcolonial feminisms at the Department of Thematic Studies (Gender Studies Unit) at Linköping University, Sweden. Tlostanova has had numerous visiting scholarships and visiting teaching assignments at the University of Bremen (Germany), at Duke University (USA), at Södertorn University and Linköping University (Sweden), she has taught at various international summer schools and has delivered many keynote lectures at international conferences. Tlostanova has authored twelve monographs and over 280 journal articles and book chapters translated into several languages,. In 2006 she has co-edited with Walter Mignolo a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly ''Double Critique: Knowledges and Scholars at Risk in Post-Soviet Societies'. In 2021 she has co-edited with Redi Koobak and Suruchi Thapar-Björkert a collection ''Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues. Intersections, Opacities, Challenges in Feminist Theorizing and Practice'' (Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality). From her first book Multiculturalism and the US Fiction of the Late 20th Century (Moscow, Nasledije, 2000) to her most recent monograph co-authored with Tony Fry ''A New Political Imagination. Making the Case'' (London, New York, Routledge, 2020) lies 20 years worth of contributions to decolonial thinking and research, particularly in relation to knowledge production, aesthetics and feminism. Tlostanova has addressed transcultural subjectivities and aesthetic models in The Sublime of Globalization (Moscow, URSS, 2005), focused on decolonial agendas in the post-Soviet feminist epistemic practices in Gender Epistemologies and Eurasian Borderlands (London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), tackled together with Walter Mignolo the venues of decolonizing teaching, learning and the university in Learning to Unlearn: Decolonial Reflection from Eurasia and the Americas(Columbus, Ohio State University Press, 2012) , focused on the intersections of the postcolonial and postsocialist human conditions seen through activist art in Postcolonialism and Postsocialism in Fiction and Art: Resistance and Re-existence (London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) , addressed the futureless ontologies of the post-Soviet space and the artivist ways to their re-existence in ''What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet? Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire(Durham, Duke University Press, 2018) and together with Tony Fry, presented the case for the making of A new political imagination' by offering a critique of existing political institutions, philosophy and practices that are unable to provide the thinking, means and leadership to deal with the complexity and crises of the world at large. Additionally she has authored two novels and several short stories published in literary journals.