Erzsébet Strausz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at Central European University. She holds a PhD from Aberystwyth University and her research focuses on post-structuralist theory, critical security studies, critical pedagogy, as well as creative, experimental, and narrative research methods. She was awarded the British International Studies Association’s Excellence in Teaching International Studies Prize in 2017 while she was teaching at the University of Warwick and more recently was one of the recipients of the CEU Distinguished Teaching Award. Her research monograph Writing the Self and Transforming Knowledge in International Relations: Towards a Politics of Liminality was nominated by Routledge for the Sussex International Theory Prize in 2019. With Shine Choi and Anna Selmeczi, she is co-editor of the edited volume Critical Methods for the Study of World Politics: Creativity and Transformation.