Born in 1953 in Sofia. Academic Support to the Project Leader within the Project "Visual Seminar:" responsible for the Resident Fellows Program and for the integrating of the artists in the intellectual community of CAS
educational background
2000 - 2001
Senior fellow of Collegium Budapest, Hungary
1998
Habilitation in History of Modern Culture, University of Sofia.
1997
November - December, Specialization at Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris. France
1990
January - July, post-doctoral specialization at the universities of York and at the Centre for Critical Theory, University of Cardiff (supervisor Prof. Christopher Norris)
1989
PhD. in historical poetics of Bulgarian literature
1974 - 78
Student in Bulgarian philology, Faculty of Slavic Philologies, University of Sofia
professional background
Lecturer for History of Modern Culture, department of Cultural Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sofia
Teaching background:
2003
Director of the MA. Program "Arts and Cutural Intitutions in the XXth and XXIst century," University of Sofia, Faculty of Philosophy
2002 - 2003
Member of the Board of the Ochrid Summer Scool
2000 - 2002
Academic Director of The Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia, tutor of Associate fellows
1998 - 2000
January Regional Director for Eastern Europe of the International Summer School in Theory of Humanities, Santjago de Compostela, Spain
1998 - 1999
Director of the program "Artes Liberales," New Bulgarian University, Sofia
1995 - 1998
Chair of the Department of New Bulgarian Studies, New Bulgarian University
1997
Director of the international Summer University Liminal Europe
Research:
2003 - 2005
Convenor of the collective research project Roles, Identities and Hybrids, sponsored by Volkswagen Foundation, host organisation the Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia
2003 - 2004
Researcher and group leader in the collective project, Nation Building and the Break Up of the Empire: Balkan Literatures in the Era of Nationalism. Host organisation Bilgi University, Istanbul
since 2003
Head of the fellowship program in the framework of the "Visual Seminar" at the CAS
2000 - 2002
Convenor of the collective project NEXUS: How to think about the Balkans: Culture, Region, Identities," sponsored by Volkswagen Foundation host organisations the Institute of Contemporary Art and the Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia
Civic activities:
since 2002
Chair of the board of the Southeast European Academic League (SEAL)
2002
Member of the board of the Ohrid Summer University, Macedonia
2002
Member of the Advisory Board of the Bulgarian Studies electronic network
1998
Curator of the Bulgarian cultural program at the "Leipziger Buchmesse", Germany
1998 - 2001
Member of the Board of the Open Society Foundation, Sofia.
1987 - 1989
Leader of the group Synthesis (interdisciplinary and opposition group of young artist, writers, academics, and students, Sofia)