Name: Iveta Slavkova

Title: Associate Professor of Art History, AUP (American University of Paris)

Location: Paris, France

Pronouns: She/Her

Email address: islavkova@aup.edu

Languages: English, French, Bulgarian

Areas of research: avant-garde, humanism crisis in the West, world wars, surrealism, abhumanism

Biography: Iveta Slavkova is Associate Professor at AUP (American University of Paris). Her research focuses on the humanism crisis, the avant-garde and the two World Wars. She is the author of Réparer l’homme. La crise de l’humanisme et l’Homme nouveau des avant-garde (Presses du réel, 2020) and co-editor of Crisis. The Avant-Garde and Modernism in Critical Modes (EAM series, De Gryuter, 2022) as well as articles on Wols, Camille Bryen, Jacques Audiberti. She is preparing a monograph on abhumanism, a concept/intellectual movement launched by Audiberti, exploring its role in post-World War II Paris and its relation with Dada and surrealism. She is one of the editors of Surrealism and Ecology (Vernon Press, expected 2025).