Jasna Koteska

Jasna Koteska (born 1970, Skopje) is a Macedonian writer, philosopher and academic.

She holds master degrees in literature (University of Skopje) and in gender studies (Central European University, Budapest). She is a Professor (Tenure) 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 (Toronto & Ljubljana, 2016) 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 (Washington, 2014) made it on to the European Society (Berlin and Paris) 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 (CERI-SK), Ljubljana.

She is coordinator of the Study Circle 8, Futures of Education in the Anthropocene (2021-2023) for the Nordic Summer University.

In December 2022 she became an academician in the field of science of Academia Balkanica Europeana - United Balkans 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.

Selected works

Books Kierkegaard on Consumerism. The Aesthetic, The Ethical and the Religious Reading, Toronto and Ljubljana: Kierkegaard Circle/Collection Aut, 2016. Sanitary Enigma, Skopje: Templum, 2006. (Bulgarian translation Sofia: KX Critique and Humanism, 2012. ) (Reprint, Skopje: Antolog, 2020. ) Intimist, Ljubljana: Apokalipsa, 2008. Macedonian Women's Writings, Skopje: Makedonska kniga, 2003. Postmodern Literary Studies, Skopje: Makedonska kniga, 2002.

As editor The Ethnologist as a Writer: The Writer as an Ethnologist, (co-editor with Ilina Jakimovska), Skopje: Tabahon, 2020. Representation of Gender Minority Groups in Media: Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia, (co-editor with Tatjana Rosic-Ilic and Janko Ljumovic), Belgrade: Faculty of Media and Communication, 2015. Veseliot den ili Maticek se zeni, (editor), Skopje: Faculty of Philology, 2008.