Viktoras Bachmetjevas chairs the Department of Philosophy at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. He is a Lithuanian philosopher specializing in continental ethics, particularly the thought of Søren Kierkegaard and Emmanuel Levinas, as well as twentieth-century and contemporary French philosophy.
His key publications include the edited volume Philosophy of Humor: New Perspectives (Brill, 2023, with Daniel O'Shiel) and the chapters "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 is also a translator and public intellectual engaged in academic initiatives across Central and Eastern Europe. He is a founding member of the Dilemma Mobile Academy, serves on the Advisory Council of the Ukrainian History Global Initiative, and is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies. He has held visiting positions at Yale University and the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, and has given guest lectures at the École normale supérieure, the École des Ponts, West Virginia University, Sofia University, and elsewhere.
