Sara Vukotić
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Sara Vukotić (1996) was born in Kragujevac, Serbia, where she completed her primary and secondary education. In 2020, she graduated from the Department of Serbian Literature with South Slavic Literatures at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, with a thesis on comparative research and interpretation of cosmogonical and metaphysical elements in poetry within the South Slavic context. In 2021, she completed her master's degree at the same department with a thesis in the field of comparative studies of old Serbian literature. In 2024, she obtained a master's degree from the Department of Cultural Studies and Anthropology at the University of Primorska in Koper, with a thesis focused on migration, identity construction, identity politics, and ritual studies. For her research work, she received the Srečko Kosovel Award for Students of the University of Primorska (2024). During her studies, she participated in international exchanges (2019, Faculty of Philosophy in Rijeka, Department of Croatian Studies and Department of Cultural Studies) and research projects and workshops (the international project Walk the Line in 2022 and the international workshop Pasts and Futures of Public Spaces: Workshop on Ethnographic Methods and Historic Urban Space in 2022). From October 2024 to September 2025, she was employed at the Research Centre for the Humanities, University of Nova Gorica, where she worked as a research assistant on the project Sexual desire in Slovenian Women's Writing from a Transnational Perspective (N6-0322). Within the project, her research focused primarily on the representation of female bodies and sexual desire in literature from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Since October 2025, she has been employed at the Institute of Slovenian Ethnology, ZRC SAZU, as a young researcher under the mentorship of Saša Babič, where she is preparing her doctoral dissertation in the field of folklore studies and humor studies. She is enrolled in the first year of the doctoral programme Comparative Study of Ideas and Cultures at the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU, within the module Slovenian Studies – Tradition and Modernity.