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Name: Vitana Vassileva Kostadinova

Address and email:

Department of English and American Studies

Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv

24 Tsar Assen Str.

4000 Plovdiv

Bulgaria

e-mail: vitana@uni-plovdiv.bg; 
vitana_kostadinova@yahoo.co.uk

Филологически факултет, катедра „Английска филология”. Доктор по научната специалност Литература на народите на Европа, Америка, Африка, Азия и Австралия (2008). Главен асистент от 2006 г. Родена през 1970 г. в гр. Пловдив. Завършила Английската гимназия в Пловдив, а след това специалност „Български език и английски език” в ПУ „Паисий Хилендарски” (1994). В Пловдивския университет постъпва през 1996 г. Преподава превод, лексика и писмени упражнения на студенти англицисти. Чете лекции и води упражнения по британска литература от периода на романтизма; предлага избираеми и факултативни курсове по проблемите на романтизма и модерността, литературните теории, културната рецепция и превода на култури. Специализирала в Глазгоуския университет (2001-2002 г.), откъдето получава степен MPhil. Стипендиант на Академичната програма на Отворено общество за преподаване (2004) и професионално развитие (2005). Поканена за участие в проекта „Рецепцията на британски автори в Европа” с изследвания за Байрон (2004) и Шели (2008). Член е на Съюза на учените в България, Българското дружество за британски изследвания, Британската асоциация за изучаване на романтизма и на международното Байроново общество и е представяла доклади на конференции в Ню Йорк, Грима, Киото, Месолонги, Ливърпул, Абъристуид, Монктън, Белфаст, Оксфорд, Дъблин, Париж, Лондон, Венеция, Сейнт Андрюс, Торино. Научните занимания на Витана Костадинова са предимно в областта на рецепционните процеси в литературата и културата.

 

Professional qualification:

• Dates (from – to)	• 1995—now
• Name and address of employer	• Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv, 24 Tsar Assen str, Plovdiv 4000, Bulgaria
• Occupation or position held	• Senior Lecturer
• Main activities and responsibilities	• Teaching at BA and MA level; Research

• Dates (from – to)	• 2000-2007
• Name and address of employer	• Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv, 24 Tsar Assen str, Plovdiv 4000, Bulgaria
• Occupation or position held	• Senior Lecturer
• Main activities and responsibilities	• Teaching at BA and MA level; Research

• Dates (from – to)	• 2001-2002 Romanticism and the Forms of Modernity.
• Name of organisation	• University of Glasgow, UK
• Title of qualification awarded	• M.Phil.

• Dates (from – to)	• 1989—1994 Bulgarian and English Studies
• Name of organisation	• Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv
• Title of qualification awarded	• M.A.

Main Fields of Research:

British Romanticism, Reception, Translation and culture

Teaching experience in academia:

• Teaching English as a foreign language to BA and MA students at upper intermediate to proficiency  level

• Theoretical courses: British literature, and Translation and Culture for MA students; British literature of the period of Romanticism, Translating Cultures, Cultural reception: creating and appropriating images, Romanticism and Modernity, Introduction into Literary Theories for English-major BA students.    

Membership in Academic and Professional Institutions, Bodies and Organizations:

Academic Circle of Comparative Literature, since 2011;

British Association for Romantic Studies, since 2006;

International Byron Society, since 2001;

Bulgarian Society for British Studies – affiliated to ESSE, since 2000;

The Union of Scholars in Bulgaria, since 1999

Professional and Academic Awards and Fellowships:

2012 – Research fellowship at the Chawton House Library, UK.

2005 – Professional development grant by the Academic Fellowship Program of the Open Society Institute.

2004 – Teaching fellowship by the Academic Fellowship Program of the Open Society
Institute.

2001 – Fellowship for full-time studies in the Romanticism and Forms of Modernity MPhil programme at the University of Glasgow.  

Participation in national and international projects :

2010-2012: on the team working on The Reception of Ancient Greek Drama in Bulgaria.

2005-2008: on the team working on The Reception of Shelley in Europe with a contribution on the reception of Shelley in Bulgaria.

2001 – 2005: on the team working on The Reception of Byron in Europe with a contribution on the images of Byron in Bulgaria.  

Presentations at international conferences:

The International Byron Conferences in Missolonghi (2009), St Andrews (2008), Venice (2007), Paris (2006), Dublin (2005), Moncton (2004), Liverpool (2003), Kyoto (2002), and New York (2001);

ESSE in Torino (2010), London (2008);

THE ARTIST UNDER CONSTRUCTION: FROM SELF TO SHELF in Oxford (2005);

BETWIXT AND BETWEEN: PLACE AND CULTURAL TRANSLATION in Belfast (2005);

ROMANTICISM, HISTORY, HISTORICISM  in Aberystwyth (2004);

Ninth International Symposium of the Society for English Romanticism in Grimma (2001).

Major publications:

• “Meaningful Absences: Byron in Bulgaria”. Contexts, Subtexts, and Pretexts: Literary Translation in Eastern Europe. Ed. Brian James Baer. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2011, pp. 219-232.

• Byron in Bulgarian Context: Footprints on the Sands of Time. Plovdiv: Pygmalion, 2009. [a monograph in Bulgarian]

• Co-editor of Byron and the Isles of Imagination: A Romantic Chart. Plovdiv: Context, 2009. [a collection of essays]

• “The East as an Island and Inspiration”. In Byron and the Isles of Imagination, eds. Alistair Heys and Vitana Kostadinova. Plovdiv: Context Press, 2009, pp. 176-202.
  

• “Myth and Ideology: British Romanticism in Comparative Literature textbooks”. English
  Studies On This Side: Post-2007 Reckonings. Eds. Suman Gupta and Milena Katsarska. Plovdiv: Plovdiv University Press, 2009, pp. 283-296.

• “Shelley’s Heart of Hearts in Bulgaria”. In The Reception of Shelley in Europe, eds. Susanne Schmid and Michael Rossington, 2008, pp. 247-257.

• “Byron’s Manfred in Bulgarian Context.” In Literaturna missal, 2008, no 1, pp. 161-185. [in Bulgarian]

• “Byronic Ambivalence in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage IV”. In: The Byron Journal, vol. 35, no 1, 2007, pp. 11-18.

• “The Rise of the Sublime and the Fall of History.” Selected Proceedings of the 30^th International Byron Conference “Byron and the Romantic Sublime”. In Revue de l’Université de Moncton,
  Moncton: University of Moncton Press, 2005, 189-202.

• “Images of Byron in Bulgaria”. In: Cardwell, Richard (ed.) The Reception of Byron in Europe,
  vol. II: Northern, Central and Eastern Europe, London and New York: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004, pp. 353-364.

• “Romantic attitudes Towards Evil in Anticipation of Moral relativism.“ In Dialogues:
  American Studies in an International Context, Conference proceedings, Plovdiv, 2002,
  pp. 193-198.

• “Byron in Bulgaria: The Unrecognised Legacy of Byron’s Name in Literary Criticism.” In: Societe
  Francaise des etudes Byroniennes. Bulletin de liaison, vol viii, No 3, automne 2002, pp. 113-123.

• “Images of America, or the American Presence in the Bulgarian Revival Period.” In: Danova M. (ed.) Essays in American Studies: Cross – Cultural Perspectives, Polis Publishers, Sofia, 2001,pp. 13-30.