Bio
Courses I am teaching
ENGL 2010, 2260, 3890, and 3020
Degrees
- 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 Literature
Recent 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.”