Dr. Vitana Kostadinova
Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv
English Department
Email: vitana.kostadinova [at] gmail.com
Research interests:
British Romanticism, Reception, Translation and culture.
Subjects taught:
BA Courses:
- Critical and Creative Methods of Teaching Literature
- British literature of the period of Romanticism
- Translating Cultures
- Cultural reception: creating and appropriating images
- Romanticism and Modernity
- Introduction into Literary Theories
MA Courses:
- British literature
- Translation and Culture
Major publications:
Books:
- Byron in Bulgarian Context: Footprints on the Sands of Time. [a monograph in Bulgarian] Plovdiv: Pygmalion, 2009. ISBN 978-954-9402-28-5
- Byron and the Isles of Imagination: A Romantic Chart. [a collection of essays, eds. Alistair Heys and Vitana Kostadinova] Plovdiv: Context, 2009. ISBN 978 954 8238 12 0
Articles:
- “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. ISBN 978 90 272 2437 8
- “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. ISBN 978-954-423-568-0
- “Shelley’s Heart of Hearts in Bulgaria”. In: The Reception of Shelley in Europe, eds. Susanne Schmid and Michael Rossington, 2008, pp. 247-257. ISBN 9780826495877
- “Byronic Ambivalence in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage IV”. In: The Byron Journal, vol. 35, no 1, 2007, pp. 11-18. ISSN 0301-7257
- “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. ISBN 0-8264-6844-6
Awards/grants:
- 2012 – Chawton House Library Visiting 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.