Isak Winkel Holm is Professor of Comparative Literature at University of Copenhagen. Author of Tanken i billedet. Søren Kierkegaards poetik (Thinking in Images: The Poetics of Søren Kierkegaard, Gyldendal 1998), Stormløb mod grænsen: det politiske hos Franz Kafka (Assault on the Border: the Political in Franz Kafka, Gyldendal 2015), and Kafka's Stereoscopes: the Political Function of a Literary Style (Bloomsbury 2020). He has published scholarly articles on Rousseau, Schlegel, Kleist, Hegel, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Musil, Proust, Kundera, DeLillo, Sebald, McCarthy, and zombie movies, and has translated works by Franz Kafka and Friedrich Nietzsche into Danish.