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VITANA KOSTADINOVA
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24 Tsar Assen Street, English Department, Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv, 4000 PLOVDIV
(Bulgaria)
E-mail(s)
[email protected]; [email protected]
Nationality
Date of birth
Gender
Bulgarian
21 November 1970
Female
Desired employment / College / university teaching professional
Occupational field
Work experience
Dates
Occupation or position held
Main activities and responsibilities
Name and address of employer
Type of business or sector
October 1995 →
Lecturer
Teaching English to students of English;
Teaching British literature [with a focus on Romanticism] to students of English;
Curricula and time-tables;
Research.
Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv
24 Tsar Assen Street, 4000 Plovdiv (Bulgaria)
University Education
Education and training
Dates
Title of qualification awarded
06/2000 - 11/2007
PhD
Name and type of organisation
providing education and training
Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv
Plovdiv (Bulgaria)
Level in national or international
classification
Conferred at a national level
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Title of qualification awarded
Name and type of organisation
providing education and training
Dates
Title of qualification awarded
Name and type of organisation
providing education and training
October 2000 - October 2001
MPhil
University of Glasgow
Glasgow (United Kingdom)
October 1989 - October 1994
MA
Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv
Plovdiv (Bulgaria)
Personal skills and
competences
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Mother tongue(s)
Bulgarian
Other language(s)
Understanding
Self-assessment
Listening
European level (*)
English
Russian
C2
Proficient user
Speaking
Reading
C2
Proficient user
Spoken interaction
C2
Proficient user
Writing
Spoken production
C2
Proficient user
C2
Proficient user
B2 Independent user C1 Proficient user B2 Independent user B2 Independent user B2 Independent user
(*) Common European Framework of Reference (CEF) level
Additional information • Research projects – focusing on the social and historical influences on literary processes in
connection with the reception of foreign literary figures or phenomena, and the construction of their
Bulgarian images:
2010-2012: on the team working on The Reception of Ancient Greek Drama in Bulgaria.
2009-2010: on the team working on The Reception of Oedipus Rex 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.
• Grants and Fellowships:
2012 – Chawton House Library Fellowship
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.
• 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).
 August 2010, Torino (Italy), ESSE-10: “The Author as Hero: the Case of Byron”.
 August 2006, London (UK), ESSE-8: “Otherness Caught Up Between the Orient and the Occident”.
 July 2005, Oxford (UK), THE ARTIST UNDER CONSTRUCTION: FROM SELF TO SHELF:
“Biographers as Mediators Between Self and Shelf”.
 April 2005, Belfast (UK), BETWIXT AND BETWEEN: PLACE AND CULTURAL TRANSLATION:
“Manfred in Bulgarian Contexts”.
 June 2004, Aberystwyth (UK), ROMANTICISM, HISTORY, HISTORICISM: “History and Subjective
Time in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto IV”.
 October 2001, Grimma (Germany), 9th International Symposium of the Society for English
Romanticism ALTERNATIVE ROMANTICISMS: EXPLORING ROMANTIC LOCATIONS AND
GENRES: “Bulgarian Appropriations of the Romantic”.
• Memberships: Academic Circle of Comparative Literature, since 2011; British Association for
Romantic Studies, since 2006; International Byron Society, since 2001; Bulgarian Society for British
Studies – the Bulgarian national association which is a member of ESSE, since 2000; The Union of
Scholars in Bulgaria, since 1999.
• 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.
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 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 30th 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.
Sept. 2012
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