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Centre Head
Jonathan McCreedy is Senior Assistant Professor in English literature in the Department of English and American Studies at St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia. He received his PhD from the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, based upon his study of Finnegans Wake and its compositional “sigla.” His scholarly interests include James Joyce, genetic criticism, “Irish English,” and the interdisciplinary study of twentieth century classical music together with modernist literature. He has publications in Genetic Joyce Studies, Joyce Studies in Italy, the James Joyce Literary Supplement, Literaturen Vestnik, and he is a co-editor of New Paradigms in English Studies (St. Kliment Ohridski UP, 2017), Ireland-Europe: Cultural and Literary Encounters (St. Kliment Ohridski UP, 2017), and Swiftian Inspirations: the Legacy of Jonathan Swift from the Enlightenment to the Age of Post-Truth (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020).
Emai: jonathanmccreedy84@gmail.com
Centre Members
Vesselin M. Budakov is Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of English and American Studies at St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia. He holds a PhD in eighteenth-century epistolary fiction. He teaches British Literature of the Enlightenment period and conducts seminars on American literature. His publications include “Dystopia: an Earlier Eighteenth-Century Use,” Notes and Queries 57.1 (2010), “Cacotopia: An Eighteenth-Century Appearance in News from the Dead (1715),” Notes and Queries 58.3 (2011), chapters in Globalization in English Studies (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), Ireland-Europe: Cultural and Literary Encounters (St. Kliment Ohridski UP, 2017), and in the journal VTU Review: Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences. He is also a co-editor of Swiftian Inspirations: the Legacy of Jonathan Swift from the Enlightenment to the Age of Post-Truth (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020).
Alexandra K. Glavanakova, Associate Professor Dr., is a tenured lecturer in the Department of English and American Studies at St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia. Her monographs include Posthuman Transformations: Bodies and Texts in Cyberspace (St. Kliment Ohridski UP, 2014) and Transcultural Imaginings. Translating the Other, Translating the Self in Narratives about Migration and Terrorism (Critique and Humanism, 2016). Her research fields are immigration, race and ethnicity in the U.S.A. and Canada, the study of the Bulgarian diaspora in the U.S. and Canada; the major cultural shifts in literacy, education, literary studies, the creation and reception of texts under the impact of digital technology. She has been involved in a number of projects on distance education, and teaches courses in American literature and culture, digital culture, multimodal writing, and literature in the age of the Internet. She is also a co-editor of Swiftian Inspirations: the Legacy of Jonathan Swift from the Enlightenment to the Age of Post-Truth (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020).
Evgenia Pancheva is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature in the Department of English and American Studies at St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia. She has authored Dispersing Semblances. An Essay on Renaissance Culture (St. Kliment Ohridski UP, 2001), co-authored Literary Theory: from Plato to Postmodernism (with Amelia Licheva and Miriana Yanakieva, Colibri, 2005), both in Bulgarian, and co-edited Seventy Years of English Studies in Bulgaria (with Zelma Catalan and Christo Stamenov, St. Kliment Ohridski UP, 2000), Renaissance Refractions (with Boika Sokolova, St. Kliment Ohridski UP, 2001), and Peregrinations of the Text (with Christo Stamenov et al., St. Kliment Ohridski UP, 2013). She has also published articles on Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, and literary theory. Her major translations include Bulgarian verse renditions of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, narrative poems, and shorter poems, Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great, Edward II, The Jew of Malta, Dido, Queen of Carthage, and Hero and Leander, Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock, and a recently published volume of Swift’s poetry.
Angel Igov, Assistant Prof. PhD, has graduated with a Bachelor degree in English Philology and a Masters in Literary Studies from Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski. In 2012 he defended at the same university his dissertation on Fictional Models of the City in Contemporary British Novel: Ian McEwan and Martin Amis. He has specialized at the University of California Berkeley, on a Fulbright scholarship. He teaches Romantic Literature, 20th-century Literature, and Translation at the Department of English and American Studies of Sofia University. His academic interests include poetics, intertextuality, and comparative literature. He is the author of three novels, two collections of short stories, and a number of articles in periodicals. He is also a translator of fiction and poetry from English, including John Banville’s novel The Book of Evidence, as well as individual poems by W. B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, and Derek Mahon. He has been awarded several national prizes for fiction and translation.
Tatyana Stoicheva is Prof. Dr. Habil. of English Literature and British Cultural Studies at the Dept. of English and American Studies, Sofia University. She has published on 18th c. English literature, comparative literature, translation and reception studies and cultural studies. She is the author of two books: Bulgarian Identities and Their European Horizons. Sofia: Iztok-zapad, 2007 (in Bulgarian) as well as Trajectories of Satire: a comparative study of Henry Fielding’s Jonathan Wild and Luben Karavelov’s Hadji Nicho. Sofia: Polis, 1999 (in Bulgarian).
Dr. Zelma Catalan is Associate Professor Emeritus of English Literature and Stylistics at the Department of English and American Studies, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. She has taught courses on British Literature, Translation, Discourse and Literary Stylistics and Popular Fiction on Page and Screen. She is the author of a monograph The Politics of Irony in Thackeray’s Mature Fiction (St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2009). She has published extensively on British literature, narrative and fictionality, style and discourse in literary and non-literary texts and film adaptation. Her publications in the field of Irish Studies include “Distancing the Stereotype in Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon and Its Literary Source” (Ireland and Europe: Cultural and Literary Encounters. St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2017) and “Poetics of the Human Situation: The Short Stories of John McGahern” (in Bulgarian, Literaturen Vestnik, No 10, 2019). In May 2017 Dr. Zelma Catalan was the moderator of a discussion of John McGahern’s Amongst Women and in 2019 she was on the panel at the Irish Literature Evening. She has lectured at the Universities of Lille, Bamberg, and Roehampton. She has presented papers at a number of national and international conferences and has contributed to published volumes. She was a visiting lecturer at the University of Leeds, UK, and a visiting professor at SUNY, Albany.
Amelia Licheva is a poet and literary critic. She is a professor of literature theory at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski. She is the author of the theoretical books Stories of Voice (2002), Theory of Literature (co-authored, 2005), Voices and Identities in Bulgarian Poetry (2007), Policies of Today (2010), and A Short Dictionary of Literary and Linguistic Terms (co-authored, 2012), Literature. Binoculars. Microscope (2013), Is the Nobel World? (2019), the Collected Poems, The Eye Gazing Into Ear (1992), The Second Library of Babylon (1997), The Alphabets (2002), My Europe (2007) Must See (2013), and Beastly Meek (2017). Her poems have been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Slovak, Croatian, Hungarian, Arabic. Editor-in-chief of the Literary Journal, editor of the Literature Magazine. She is a member of the editorial board of Foreign Language Training Magazine, a winner of the Golden Lion Award for a publishing project for the volume Theory of Literature: From Plato to Postmodernism, Honorary Badge of Sofia Municipality, 2007, and Knight of the Book of the Bulgarian Book Association in the category “Print Media - Newspapers and Magazines” for 2016. She is also the winner of the Hristo G. Danov Award for 2018 in the section “For Presentation of the Bulgarian Book”. As a poet, she is the recipient of the National Literary Award “Binyo Ivanov” for her contribution to the development of the Bulgarian poetic syntax for Beastly Meek (2017).