A researcher and educator working at the intersection of philosophy, anthropology, ethnography, semiotics, psychoanalysis, media theory, artistic practice, and contemporary cultural analysis, she has served as Head of the Center for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe since 2014. From 2016 to 2025, she held a full-time teaching position at the Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka. Her international academic experience includes appointments as a visiting professor and invited researcher at Paris 8 University, Università del Piemonte Orientale in Alessandria, the College of Arts in Pretoria, East China Normal University, and Waseda University in Tokyo. Across these roles, she has combined research and teaching with public engagement, academic leadership, and the development of international and collaborative scholarly initiatives. Since 2024, she has served on the selection jury for the European Capital of Democracy, and since 2025, she has been a member of the evaluation panel for ERC Consolidator Grant proposals.

Education

She received her PhD from Paris 8 Vincennes–Saint-Denis University in 2009 with the dissertation Histoires de trahison. At the same university, she earned an MA in Feminist Studies in 2000, completed graduate studies in Information and Documentation Sciences in 2002, and earned an MA in Hypermedia/Multimedia Production and Electronic Publishing in 2004. She also completed the Foundation Programme in Transactional Analysis at The Berne Institute in Derby (UK) from 2020 to 2022.

Areas of expertise

• philosophy of culture
• anthropology and ethnography
• gender and feminist studies
• psychoanalysis
• media and visual culture
• semiotics
• translation and meaning
• institutional analysis
• art, design, and intermediality

Courses

• Gender Studies and Psychoanalysis
• Film and Psychoanalysis
• Cinematography of Unease
• Culture of Catharsis
• Introduction to Media
• Radio, Television, and the Internet
• Image Semiotics
• Text Across Media
• Economy of Attention
• Intermedia
• Theories and Practices of New Media
• Science, Culture, and Art (YUFE Minor Urban Ecology)
• Semiotics
• Interaction Design and Sustainability (YUFE Minor Urban Ecology)
• Discourses: Work and Wellbeing (CAS SEE Work and Wellbeing Micro-credentials)

Completed and forthcoming projects

• Science x Society: Training the Next Generation of Science-Society Communicators – Erasmus Mundus Design Measures
• URGE – Universities Revitalizing Growth and Empowerment in the Danube Region (INTERREG, 2024–2025)
• SPEAR – Horizon 2020 project supporting gender equality planning in academia and research
• Cultures of Rejection – Volkswagen Foundation project in collaboration with Leuphana, Linköping, Vienna, and Belgrade
• Rijeka in Flux – project with the University of British Columbia, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
• Diversity Mixer – EU Rights, Equality and Citizenship programme, Rijeka Capital of Culture 2020
• Rights at Work, Work on Rights – Erasmus+ regional cooperation project

Publications

Books and edited volumes

• Under the Influence: Apparatus, Agent and the Attribution of the Act (Mimesis International 2026)
• Fragmentation and the Future of Work in Digital Capitalism (University of Rijeka, 2026)
• Against the Neutral Image: Essays on the Exhibition Choreography of Violence by Jelena Jureša (University of Rijeka, 2025)
• Introduction to Gender Studies 2 – Gender and the Power of Context (co-edited with Brigita Miloš, Faculty for Humanities in Rijeka, 2025)
• On Women’s Question or Sexual Capital (Akademska Knjiga, 2025)
• Contours of Change: A Decade of Transformative Inquiry at CAS SEE (co-edited with Valeria Graziano, University of Rijeka, 2023)
• Genealogy of Betrayal (University of Rijeka, 2019)

Selection of Recent Articles and Book Chapters

• (forthcoming) Collapse of jus civitatis and hostes humani generis (Faculty of Political Sciences, Sarajevo, 2026)
• L’avenir and the future at the crossroads of politics (Filozofska istraživanja, 2026)
• “Seismograph of Shock, Fracture and Attunement” (2026)
• “Gender and Technology” (with Anamari Nakić, 2025)
• “Meaning-changing as a form of translation” (2025)
• “Endings and Continuities: Avant-Garde and Meaning-Making” (2025)
• “Triangle of Care: Artistic Practices of Nadije Mustapić, Darije Žmak Kunić and Petre Mrša” (2024)
• “Harmony in Creativity: The Interplay of Art and Design in Shaping Perspectives” (2024)
• “White enclosures: racial capitalism and coloniality along the Balkan route” (2023)
• “Challenging cultures of rejection” (2022)
• “Feminist responses to populist politics” (2021)
• “Cultures of rejection in the Covid-19 crisis” (2021)
• Earlier representative works
• “Plurality is a conditio per quam of all political life” (2020)
• “On the Eternal Present” (2019)
• “The Trajectories of the Concept of Life in Judith Butler’s Thought” (2017)
• “The ‘Humanities’ in the Anthropocene” (2017)
• “Use and misuse of Cathartic Impulse: Dysfunctional Democracy” (2015)
• “Documenting Sex And/Or Gender” (2014)