Suzana Milevska was born in 1961. She is a Lecturer in visual culture and the Director of the Visual and Cultural Research Centre of the "Euro-Balkan" Institute. She holds a Ph.D. from the Visual Cultures Department at Goldsmiths College – University of London. She was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar and P. Getty Curatorial Research Fellow. Her academic interests include visual culture, photography and film theory, gender and psychoanalysis. Her texts about the construction of national identity and gender difference in arts and visual culture of the Balkans have been included in many publications: Primary Documents - A Sourcebook for Eastern and Central European Art since the 1950s (New York: MoMA, 2002); East Art Map, edited by IRWIN (London: Afterall, 2006); Is Art History Global, edited by James Elkins, (New York: Routledge, 2006); Conversations with Gayatri Chakravorti Spivak (London: Seagull Books, 2007).