Dr. Oana Șerban is a Lecturer at the University of Bucharest, a member of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE), and holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Bucharest (2018). Her doctoral dissertation, The Structure of Artistic Revolutions in Modernity: A Political Theory of Aesthetic Validity, explored the intersection of aesthetics and the history of philosophy, focusing on the structural dynamics of artistic revolutions in modernity.

She currently serves as Director of the CCIIF – Center for the Research of the History and Circulation of Philosophical Ideas. She has been awarded the Bologna Professor distinction twice, in 2018 and 2021.

Dr. Șerban is the author of the books After Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Aesthetic Revolutions (Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter, 2022), Cultural Capital and Creative Communication: (Anti-)Modern and (Non-)Eurocentric Perspectives (London & New York: Routledge, 2023), and Capitalismul artistic (2016). She is also the co-editor of several volumes in aesthetics, philosophy of culture, and the history of European modernity. Among the most recent are Rethinking Modernity: Transitions and Challenges (Cambridge: Ethics International Press), Bordering the European Identity (Bucharest University Press, 2018), Octavio Paz: Culture and Modernity (Bucharest University Press, 2017), and Culture and Religion in the Balkans: Philosophical Approaches (Bucharest University Press, 2015).

Through conference participation and research projects conducted in France, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Sweden, Italy, Norway, Germany, Portugal, Bulgaria, Greece, and Romania, as well as through her scholarly publications, she has developed expertise in the following areas: aesthetics, early modern philosophy, biopolitics, and cultural studies.

She is a member of the International Society of Cultural History (ISCH), founder of the International Journal of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Culture (IJAPHC), editor of the Annals of the University of Bucharest – Philosophy Series, and editor of LaPunkt (a Eurocentrica publication and member of Eurozine). She has translated several works from French into Romanian by authors such as Fabienne Brugère, Sylvain Tesson, Gilles Lipovetsky, Jean Serroy, Michel Foucault, and Jean d’Ormesson.

Currently, most of her research projects in the field of biopolitics are dedicated to Holocaust studies, combating antisemitism, and the study of biopolitical art.