Biography
Alena Kulinich is Associate Professor of West Asian Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations at Seoul National University. She received her PhD in History from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, where she also taught as Senior Teaching Fellow. She later held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellowship at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford. Her academic interests focus on Islamic intellectual history and Qur’anic hermeneutics. Her current research project explores the discourses on wealth, poverty, and morality in pre-modern Muslim societies.
Research Interests
Islamic intellectual history, Qur’anic studies, West Asian cultural history