Brian Willems, Ph.D. is associate professor of literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split at of film theory at the Arts Academy in Split. He is the author of Speculative Realism and Science Fiction (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), Shooting the Moon (Zero Books, 2015), Facticity, Poverty and Clones (Atropos Press, 2010), Hopkins and Heidegger (Continuum, 2009) and the novella Henry, Henry (Zero Books, 2017). His essays have appeared in Textual Practice, Science Fiction Studies, Film-Philosophy, Umjetnost riječi, Science Fiction Film and Television, Los Angeles Review of Books, Economic Science Fictions (Goldsmiths Press, 2017), New Perpectives on Community and the Modernist Subject (Routledge, 2017), Security and Hospitality in Literature and Culture (Routledge, 2016), From A to <A> (University of Minnesota Press, 2010) and elsewhere. He has been a guest professor in the USA, UK and continental Europe and has curated new media exhibitions in Croatia and Slovenia.
He has been a Copy Editor of the Journal of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences since 2020.