Meghan Forbes is currently the C-MAP (Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives) Fellow for Central and Eastern Europe at The Museum of Modern Art in New York and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU, USA. Previously, she was Czech Lecturer in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. She holds a PhD from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, USA, where she completed her dissertation, "In the Middle of It All: Prague, Brno, and the Avant-Garde Networks of Interwar Europe." She is the recipient of numerous grants for her research, including an IIE Fulbright award to Berlin in the 2014-2015 academic year.