Aljoša Pužar

Aljoša Pužar is a culturologist, anthropologist and a writer born in Rijeka. He studied Croatian studies in Rijeka and Comparative Literature in Zagreb. He earned his PhD in 2006 in Rijeka, graduating on the topic from the field of anthropological and culturological theory of in-betweenness, and in 2015 in Cardiff, graduating on a topic from the field of Korean gender studies and youth studies. From 2002 he worked as a lecturer at the University of Trieste, and from 2003 at the University of Rijeka. From 2006 until 2016 he taught culturology, cultural anthropology, cultural geography, gender studies, and other subjects at universities in Seul, South Korea. From 2017 he teaches cultural theories and cultural anthropology at the Department of Culturology, Faculty for Social Research in Ljubljana. He has published five books and around 90 scientific and professional works in the fields of history of literature, border studies, Korean culture, and other topics. He worked as a contributor for daily newspapers, editor, and literary translator from Italian, English, and Slovenian, and published essays, short stories, and poems. He serves as a vice-president of the Cultural Studies Association and he is a member of the Royal Anthropological Institute in London and the Croatian PEN Centre. He lives in Ljubljana.