Madina Tlostanova is a decolonial feminist thinker, fiction writer, and professor of gender studies at Linköping University, Sweden. Her research interests include epistemic and aesthetic aspects of decoloniality; the postsocialist human condition, fiction, and art; critical future inquiries and critical interventions into complexity, crisis, and change.

Tlostanova’s most recent books include: A New Political Imagination, Making the Case (co-authored with Tony Fry, Routledge, 2020), Decoloniality of Knowledge, Being and Sensing (Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture, Kazakhstan, 2020), and Narratives of Unsettlement. Being Out-of-Joint as a Generative Human Condition (Routledge, 2023). Currently, she is working on a monograph Not by Leviathan Alone. An Exercise in Post-Nation-State Worlding.