Viktoras Bachmetjevas is the chair of the Department of Philosophy at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. He specializes in continental ethics, especially the thought of Soren Kierkegaard and Emmanuel Levinas, as well as the 20th century and contemporary French philosophy. Key publications include edited volume Philosophy of Humour: New Perspectives (Brill, 2023, with Daniel O'Shiel), and the articles ‘Between the Two Ethics: Why Assessor Wilhelm is Not a Judge’ (Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook, 2020), ‘Imaginary Construction and Lessons in Living Forward’ (History of European Ideas, 2020), and ‘Philosophy in Lithuania after 1989’ (Ideology and Politics Journal, 2021). He translated Emmanuel Levinas's Time and the Other, Harry Frankfurt's On  Bullshit, Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny, and prepared the critical apparatus (introduction, commentaries and indexes) for the Lithuanian editions of Soren Kierkegaard's Repetition and Fear and Trembling. He has held visiting positions at Yale University, Institute for Human Sciences in Wien, and elsewhere.