Contact
Dept: | English |
Email: | svtchap@iastate.edu |
Office: | 243 Ross 527 Farm House Ln. Ames IA 50011-1054 |
Phone: | 515-294-2180 |
Bio
Courses I am Teaching
ENGL 201, 226, 389, and 302Degrees
- PhD, English Literature, University of Minnesota
- MA, English Literature, Emporia State University
- BA, Journalism and Mass Communication, American University in Bulgaria
Research Areas
19th-century British Literature and Culture, Balkan LiteratureRecent Publications
“Where the Bridge Crumbles: The Othering of the “Gypsies” in Ivo Andrić’s The Bridge on the Drina.” SEEJ, 65.2, (2021): 354-368.“Imagining Europe: Two Nineteenth-Century Bulgarian Perspectives.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal 40.3 (2018): 281-293.
“The Slovaks and Gypsies of Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Vampires in Human Flesh.” English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 (ELT) 58.4 (2015): 522-535.
Current Research
“On Translating Bernard Shaw’s Arms and The Man,” Invited, SHAW Studies, Summer 2022.“Voices from the Road: George Borrow’s “Gypsies” in Lavengro and The Romany Rye.”