Jasna Koteska: Kierkegaard on consumerism

Dr. Jasna Koteska (Skopje, 1970) is a Macedonian writer, philosopher, and a full professor ofliterature, theoretical psychoanalysis and gender studies at the University Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje. She published over 250 articles on a variety of topics including intimacy, sanitation, trauma, abject, ressentiment, gestures, and repetition, which have been translated into English, German, Slovenian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Turkish, Albanian, Slovakian, Hungarian, Romanian, Greek, etc. She serves as national leader in several international projects in humanities and social sciences initiated by the academic networks in Germany, Switzerland, etc. She works with the 19th century literature and philosophy, and is a member of the Central European Research Institute Søren Kierkegaard in Ljubljana.

She is the author of ten books. Five of her books have been published in Macedonian, The Freud Reader. Early Psychoanalysis (2013), Communist Intimacy (2008), Sanitary Enigma (2006), Macedonian Women’s Writings (2003) and Postmodern Literary Studies (2002). Her book Intimist (2008) has been translated into Slovenian with the publisher Apokalipsa from Ljubljana, her book Sanitary Enigma (2012) into Bulgarian with the Critique and Humanism (KH) Publisher from Sofia and her book Communist Intimacy (2014) has been translated into English and published with the NAP publishing house from Washington DC. She edited two books: a monograph about the 19th century Slovenian playwright Anton Tomaž Linhart (2008) in Macedonian and a volume in English, titled Representation of Gender Minority Groups in Media: Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia (2015), which she co-edited with Tatjana Rosić-Ilić and Janko Ljumović. Koteska is a member of the Independent Writers Society in Macedonia. Since 2011 she works as external consultant on the Project of
Good Practices in Gender Equality for the European Union, Department of Justice. Since 2016 she writes a weekly column on current political issues for the Macedonian edition of the Germany’s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle. She is currently working on the book project tentatively titled Kafka, the Humorist, in which she explores the complexity of Kafka’s humor with regard to several of his repetitive topics: animalism, miniaturization,asceticism, but also children, food,knives and machines. Her book Communist Intimacy (published in English in 2014) made it on to the European Society of Authors’ Finnegans’s List of 30 books for 2015.