Jasna Koteska
Jasna Koteska is a Macedonian writer, philosopher and academic.
She holds master degrees in literature and in gender studies. She is a Professor in humanities at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje. Koteska works with 19th-century philosophy, Psychoanalytic Theory, and Gender studies. She has published books on Søren Kierkegaard, Sigmund Freud, and on a variety of topics related to psychoanalytic theory and gender studies. Her books have been published in Washington, D.C., Toronto, Ljubljana, Belgrade, Sofia and Skopje.
Her book Kierkegaard on Consumerism received a 2017 Macedonian State Award for outstanding contribution in the field of science in the interest of the Republic of Macedonia. Her book Communist Intimacy made it on to the European Society Author's Finnegan's List of 30 books for 2015. Her academic articles have been translated in several languages, including English, German, Slovenian, Serbian, Turkish, Bulgarian, Albanian, Hungarian, Greek, Slovakian, and Romanian. Koteska is editor for Kierkegaard Circle/Collection Aut at Trinity College Toronto, Canada and Central European Research Institute Soren Kierkegaard, Ljubljana.
She is coordinator of the Study Circle 8, Futures of Education in the Anthropocene for the Nordic Summer University.
In December 2022 she became an academician in the field of science of Academia Balkanica Europeana - United Balakns in United Europe by the General Electoral Assembly of Academia Balkanica Europeana held on 14 December 2022. It includes distinguished artists and scientific research experts from ten countries in the Balkans, and it was established in Bucharest in October 2017.