Artūras Tereškinas is a sociologist, cultural critic and writer. He is the author of two poetry collections, a novel and nine research monographs, including Men in the Economies of Disappointment: Between Good Life and Social Exclusion (2016), Pop Culture: Emotions, Bodies, Texts (2013), It’s a Man’s World: Men and Wounded Masculinities in Lithuania (2011), and Culture, Gender, Sexuality: Essays on Different Bodies (2007). In 2016, he received the National Science Prize, the highest scientific award in Lithuania. Tereškinas is a pioneer of LGBTQ+ and queer studies in Lithuania in both scholarship and literary work.