Udith Dematagoda is a modernist literary scholar and Assistant Professor at the University of Stuttgart. He took his PhD in English from The University of Glasgow, and was previously Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz, and Assistant Professor at Waseda University in Tokyo based in WIAS. He specialises in the work of Vladimir Nabokov, modernist European fiction of the 1920s and 1930s with a particular focus on fascist modernism, and aesthetic theory.