Apostolos Lampropoulos is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University Bordeaux Montaigne. In 2022 he was Visiting Fellow at the Cluster Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective of the Free University of Berlin. He has published the monograph Le Pari de la description (2002), while another one, entitled Gastrotopies: Athens 1990–2010 (in Greek), is forthcoming. He has co-edited the special issues “Configurations of Cultural Amnesia” (Synthesis, 2010) and “Learning from documenta” (FIELD, 2021), and the volumes States of Theory (2010; in Greek), AutoBioPhagies (2011), and Textual Layering (2017). He has translated J. Derrida’s Circumfession (2019) and co-curated the exhibition Intimacy: New Queer Art from Berlin and Beyond (2020–2021) at the Schwules Museum of Berlin.