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. Her research focuses on music, sound, and politics in socialist and post-socialist societies, with an emphasis on memory, affect, and activism. She is the author of numerous books, including Staging Socialist Femininity: Gender Politics and Folklore Performance in Serbia (2011) and The New Lives of Partisan Songs (2016).