Ana Hofman
Ana Hofman is a senior research associate at the Institute of Culture and Memory Studies at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana. Her research interests include music, sound, and politics in socialist and post-socialist societies, emphasizing memory, affect, and activism in the present-day conjuncture of neoliberalism and post-socialism in the area of former Yugoslavia. She has published numerous articles and book chapters, including two monographs, Staging Socialist Femininity: Gender Politics and Folklore Performances in Serbia (2011) and Music, Affect, Politics: New Lives of Partisan Songs in Slovenia (2015). She served as a co-editor of a Special Issue “Music and the Politics of Memory: Resounding Antifascism across Borders.” She recently edited the volume (with Tanja Petrović) Affect’s Social Lives: Post-Yugoslav Reflections (2023). Her latest book, Socialism Now: Singing Activism after Yugoslavia on strategic amateurism, politics of leisure and musical afterlives of socialism after Yugoslavia is published by Oxford University Press (2025).