Aljoša Pužar

Aljoša Pužar is a cultural studies scholar, anthropologist and writer born in Rijeka. He studied Croatian Studies in Rijeka and Comparative Literature in Zagreb. He received his doctorate in 2006 in Rijeka with a thesis on anthropological and cultural theory of liminal states, and in 2015 in Cardiff with a thesis on Korean gender studies and youth studies. From 2002, he was a lecturer at the University of Trieste, and from 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 taught cultural theories and cultural anthropology at the Department of Cultural Studies of the Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana. He has published five books and around 90 scholarly and professional papers on literary history, border studies, Korean culture and other topics. He was a columnist for daily newspapers, an editor, a literary translator from Italian, English and Slovenian, and has published essays, short stories and poems. He is Vice-Chair of the Association for Cultural Studies, a member of the Royal Anthropological Institute in London and the Croatian P.E.N. Centre. He lives in Ljubljana.