Jasna Koteska

Jasna Koteska (born 1970, Skopje) is a Macedonian writer,^[1] philosopher and academic.

She is a Professor (Tenure) in humanities at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje.^[2] Koteska works with 19th-century philosophy, Psychoanalytic Theory, and Gender studies. She has published books on Søren Kierkegaard,^[3] Sigmund Freud,^[4] 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.^[5] 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.^[6][7] Her academic articles have been translated in several languages, including English, German, Slovenian, Serbian, Turkish, Bulgarian, Albanian, Hungarian, Greek, Slovakian, and Romanian.^[8] Koteska is editor for Kierkegaard Circle/Collection Aut at Trinity College Toronto, Canada and Central European Research Institute Soren Kierkegaard (CERI-SK), Ljubljana.^[9][10]

She is coordinator of the Study Circle 8, Futures of Education in the Anthropocene (2021-2023) for the Nordic Summer University.^[11]

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.^[12] It includes distinguished artists and scientific research experts from ten countries in the Balkans, and it was established in Bucharest in October 2017.^[13]