Associate Professor Željka Metesi Deronjić is employed at the Faculty of Croatian Studies at the University of Zagreb.
In 2004, she graduated in Croatian Studies with a major in Croatology and Philosophy from the University of Zagreb. She completed her postgraduate doctoral studies in Philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb in 2013, defending her dissertation entitled The Poetics of Frane Petrić under the supervision of Associate Professor Ivica Martinović, PhD, and Academician Dunja Fališevac, thereby earning the academic degree of Doctor of Science in the field of Humanities, discipline of Philosophy, specialization in Aesthetics.
From 2006 to 2016, she was employed at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb, and since 2017, she has been working at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies of the Faculty of Croatian Studies.
At the Faculty of Croatian Studies, she leads the Zagreb Aesthetic Laboratory, a scientific and cultural project that promotes philosophical reflection on contemporary art through lectures, workshops, and discussions with artists.
She participated as a researcher in a project funded by the Ministry of Science, Education, and Sports (2007–2010), a Croatian Science Foundation project (2014–2018), and an institutional project (2024).
Her research interests include aesthetics, Croatian aesthetics, the history of Croatian philosophy, and Renaissance philosophy.