Jelena Todorović is professor of early modern European culture at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of the Arts in Belgrade and the Vice-Dean for International Cooperation. Since 2006 she runs the project of the State Art Collection in Belgrade, the work for which she received European Union Award for cultural heritage in 2018. Although an art historian by training, her interests have always been more directed towards early modern cultural history, as well as the curatorial work and the history of collecting in the first half of the 20th century. Her important publications include: Jelena Todorović, Spazi d’illusione, lugoghi di confine e di frontier nella arte moderna,  Kappabit, Roma, 2020, Jelena Todorovic, The Realms of Eternal Present – the Hidden Legacy of Baroque Culture in Modern Literature, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2017, etc.