Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tea Sernelj

Téa Sernelj is an associate professor of Sinology. In 2008, she completed her university studies in Sinology and Sociology of culture at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. During her study of Sinology, she furthered her education at Nankai University in Tianjin and Yanshan University in Qinghuangdao. In 2014, she received a MOFA fellowship at the Center for Chinese Studies in National Library in Taipei. She earned her PhD at the University of Ljubljana in 2018. Her primary research interests include classical and modern Chinese aesthetics, as well as Modern New Confucianism. She is teaching courses on Chinese aesthetics, Methodology of Intercultural Studies, Classical Chinese, and Translation. 
In 2023, she became the leader of the national research project ARIS titled " The Confucian Revival and Its Impact on Contemporary East Asian Societies through the lens of the Relation Individual and Society" https://as.ff.uni-lj.si/en/confucian-revival-and-its-impact-contemporary-east-asian-societies-through-lens-relation-between and the Taiwanese Chiang Ching-Kuo Research Foundation Project "The Problem of Freedom, Humanism, and the Human Subject in Intercultural Perspective: Europe and Taiwan" https://as.ff.uni-lj.si/en/problem-freedom-humanism-and-human-subject-intercultural-perspective-europe-and-taiwan