Sara Vukotić (1996) obtained her bachelor’s degree at the Department of Serbian Literature with South Slavic Literatures, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, where she also completed the master’s programme in Serbian Literature. She continued her studies at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Primorska, in the programme Cultural Studies and Anthropology, where she earned her master’s degree with the thesis (Re)shaping of (Trans)migrant Identities through the Practice of Ritual: Do Serbs in Nova Gorica Celebrate Slava? under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Katja Hrobat Virloget. For her research work, she received the Srečko Kosovel Award for Students of the University of Primorska (2024).

As part of a student exchange in 2019, she attended the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, where she studied at the Department of Croatian Language and Literature and the Department of Cultural Studies. In the academic years 2021/22 and 2022/23, she was awarded a Young Talents Fund Scholarship for study abroad, which enabled her to further pursue her academic training at the University of Primorska.

From October 2024 to September 2025, she was employed at the Research Centre for the Humanities, University of Nova Gorica, where she worked as a research assistant on the project Sexual desire in Slovenian Women's Writing from a Transnational Perspective (N6-0322). Within the project, her research focused primarily on the representation of female bodies and sexual desire in literature from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Since October 2025, she has been employed at the Institute of Slovenian Ethnology, ZRC SAZU, as a young researcher under the mentorship of Saša Babič, where she is preparing her doctoral dissertation in the field of folklore studies and humor studies. She is enrolled in the first year of the doctoral programme Comparative Study of Ideas and Cultures at the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU, within the module Slovenian Studies – Tradition and Modernity.