Prof. Dra. Rita Šerpytytė has recently joined the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic) as a research fellow. Professor Šerpytytė holds a PhD in Philosophy from Vilnius University (Lithuania). She has been a full professor of philosophy and Chair of the Department of Continental Philosophy and Religious Studies at the same university. Her research focuses on the philosophy of Heidegger and Hegel, postmodern philosophy, contemporary Italian philosophy (Gianni Vattimo, Giorgio Agamben, among others) and the problem of nihilism and negativity in Western philosophy.