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 interests include music, sound, and politics in socialist and post-socialist societies, with the specific focus on memory, affect, and activism in the area of former Yugoslavia. She has published numerous articles and book chapters, including the monographs: Staging Socialist Femininity: Gender Politics and Folklore Performances in Serbia (2011) and Music, Affect, Politics: New Lives of Partisan Songs in Slovenia (2015), dealing with contemporary musical recuperation of the World War II Yugoslav antifascist resistance. She served as a co-editor (with Federico Spinetti and Monika E. Schoop) of a 2020 Special Issue of Popular Music and Society, titled “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 just published by Oxford University Press (2025).

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