Sanela Nikolić, PhD
Sanela Nikolić (1983) graduated from the Department of Musicology at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade (2006) and earned a Ph.D. in interdisciplinary studies at the University of Arts in Belgrade, specializing in Theory of Arts and Media (2011). In 2012, she was appointed as an Assistant Professor of Applied Aesthetics at the Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade. She teaches at all levels of study at the Faculty of Music and also at the Ph.D. level at the University of Arts. Her scholarly research has been published in national and international journals and collections of papers. She is the author of two academic books in Serbian: Avant-garde Art as a Theoretical Practice—Black Mountain College, Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music, and Tel Quel (2015), and Bauhaus—Applied Aesthetics of Music, Theater, and Dance (2016). She has participated in research projects funded by the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science, and Technological Development and served as a team member on the ERASMUS+ project DEMUSIS. Additionally, she participates in the Faculty of Music team within the university alliance IN.TUNE. She is a member of the Musicological Society of Serbia, the Serbian Society for Aesthetics of Architecture and Visual Arts, and the International Association for Aesthetics, where she served as Delegate-at-Large from 2019 to 2022. She is the managing editor of the journal AM – Journal of Art and Media Studies and an editorial board member of “Transcultural Aesthetics: The International Association of Aesthetics Book Series”, published by Brill. She advocates for Applied Aesthetics as a critical metatheory of the humanities, focusing her teaching and research on analyzing terms and concepts in art and music aesthetics, philosophy of art, art sciences, art criticism, art theory, cultural studies, and contemporary humanities. She is particularly interested in exploring paradigms of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in the humanities, as well as the intersection between classical music and digital humanities.