Aljoša Pužar

Aljoša Pužar is a cultural scientist, anthropologist and writer born in Rijeka. He studied Croatian studies in Rijeka and comparative literature in Zagreb. He received his PhD in 2006 in Rijeka with a thesis on anthropological and cultural theory of the in-between state, and in 2015 in Cardiff with a thesis on Korean gender and youth studies. Since 2002, he has been a lecturer at the University of Trieste, and since 2003 in Rijeka. From 2006 to 2016, he taught cultural studies, cultural anthropology, cultural geography, women's studies and other subjects at universities in Seoul (South Korea). Since 2017, he has been teaching cultural theories and cultural anthropology at the Department of Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Social Research in Ljubljana. He has published five books and around 90 scientific and professional papers on the history of literature, border studies, Korean culture and other topics. He was a daily newspaper columnist, editor, literary translator from Italian, English and Slovenian, and published essays, short stories and poems. He is the vice-president of the World Cultural Organization, a member of the Royal Anthropological Institute in London and the Croatian P.E.N. center. He lives in Ljubljana.

Photo (c) Book Fair(y) in Istria, taken by Tanja Draškić Savić