Aljoša Pužar

Aljoša Pužar is a cultural theorist, anthropologist, and writer born in Rijeka. He studied Croatian language and literature in Rijeka and comparative literature in Zagreb. He earned his PhD in 2006 in Rijeka with a dissertation on anthropological and cultural theory of liminality, and in 2015 in Cardiff with a dissertation on Korean gender studies 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 theory and cultural anthropology at the Department of Cultural Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana. He has published five books and around 90 academic and professional papers on the history of literature, border studies, Korean culture, and other topics. He has been a newspaper columnist, editor, and literary translator from Italian, English, and Slovenian, and has published essays, short stories, and poems. He is Vice President of the World Cultural Organization, a member of the Royal Anthropological Institute in London, and of the Croatian PEN Center. He lives in Ljubljana.