"Professor Jelena TodoroviÄ++ received her BA in the History of Art from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, before obtaining her MA and PhD degrees from University College London, UK. She is currently a Full Professor and Vice-Dean for International Cooperation at the University of the Arts in Belgrade. For the past ten years, she has been a Keeper of the State Art Collection in Belgrade. Although an art historian by training, her research interests are more directed towards early modern cultural history. Her publications include Catalogue of the State Art Collection of the Royal Compound in Belgrade (Volume One) (2014), Of Mirrors, Roses and Nothingness: The Concept of Time and Transience in the Baroque Culture (2012), An Orthodox Festival Book in the Habsburg Empire - Zaharija Orfelin's Festive Greeting XIX of Mojsije Putnik in 1757 (2006), and "The Borrowed Spaces: Transgression, Possession and Utopia in the Political Spaces of the Archbishopric of Karlovci" in Die Erschilesung des Raumes: Konstruktion, Imagination, und Darstellung von Ráumen im Barokzeitalter (edited by Karin Friedrich, 2014), among others.".
Hidden Legacies of Baroque Thought in Contemporary Literature : The Realms of Eternal Present