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Phonology; Discourse Phonology; The Linguistic Debate

Department of English and American Studies

 

Prof. Dr. Madeleine Danova

 

m.danova@uni-sofia.bg

 

 

BA:

American Literature: from Romanticism to Realism

American Literature: from Modernism to Postmodernism

  • Australia: Society, Culture and Literature

 

MA Program Communication: Language, Literature and Media and the joint MA Program with Bukhara State University Foreign Language (English), Literature, Mass Media

  • Mass Media in Contemporary Society
  • Literary Movements and Trends in American Literature
  • Intercultural Communication
  • Postmodern Biofictions
  • American Novel into Film
  • Race and Ethnicity in American Literature and Culture
  • Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture

 

MA Program Digital Competencies in FLT

Mobile Technologies in Teaching English Language and Literature

  • PhD courses:
  • Literary Criticism in the Post-theoretical Age

 

 

Prof. Dr. Alexandra Bagasheva

 

a.bagasheva@uni-sofia.bg

 

 

BA:

  • Introduction to General Linguistics
  • Linguistic Analysis and Argumentation
  • Semantics and Term-formation
  • English: Semantics

MA Program Language and Language Sciences:

Linguistic Anthropology

  • Psycholinguistics

MA Program Communication: Language, Literature and Media

Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture

  • Origin and Evolution of Human Language

PhD courses:

  • Language data and linguistic models
  • Language and human cognition

 

 

Prof. Nelly Tincheva, Dr. Sc.

 

tincheva@uni-sofia.bg

 

BA:

Text Linguistics

Political Discourse

MA program Language and Language Sciences:

Discourse Analysis

Text Worlds and Discourse Worlds

Political Discourse

Language gaffes

 

PhD courses:

Linguistic Approaches to Discourse

 

Аssociate Prof. Dr. Alexandra Glavanakova

 

Head of Department

 

glavanak@uni-sofia.bg

 

Webpage: AlexandraGlavanakova

 

BA:

  • Cultural History of the US
  • Transcultural Dialogues: Bulgaria and the USA in the beginning of the 21st Century
  • Digital Humanities
  • Popular Culture of the USA

MA Program Communication: Language, Literature and the Media:

  • Digital Culture
  • Migration and Literature
  • American Popular Culture and Politics
  • Literature in the Information Age

PhD courses:

  • Cultural Studies: Theories, Concepts, Research Methods

Associate Prof. Dr. Maria Pipeva

 

pipeva@uni-sofia.bg

 

 

BA:

  • British Society and Culture
  • Children’s Literature: Criticism and Translation
  • Discourse and Translation

 

MA Program Translation:

  • Research Methods and Academic Writing
  • Translation of Literary Texts – Part 1 and Part 2

 

Associate Prof. Dr. Tzvetomira Venkova

 

cvenkova@uni-sofia.bg

 

BA:

  • Syntax
  • English morphosyntax
  • Language and Computer

 

MA Program Language and Language Sciences:

  • Principles of Linguistic Analysis

 

Associate Prof. Dr. Rositsa Ishpekova,

 

ishpekova@uni-sofia.bg

 

r.ishpekova@uni-sofia.bg

 

BA:

  • Semantics
  • English phraseology

MA program Language and Language Sciences:

Meaning in Language

  • Pragmatics

Metaphor in Language and Thought

 

Associate Prof. Dr. Bozhil Hristov

 

bphristov@uni-sofia.bg

 

BA:

  • Practical English Grammar Part 1
  • Practical English Grammar Part 2
  • Historical Linguistics
  • History of the English Language
  • Analysing Old and Middle English Texts

 

MA Program Language and Language Sciences:

  • Principles of Linguistic Analysis
  • Analysing Grammar
  • Contrastive Linguistics
  • Language Contact
  • Theories and Sciences of Language
  • Language Typology and Universals

 

Associate Prof. Dr. Angel Igov

 

aigov@uni-sofia.bg

 

 

 

 

 

BA:

English Literature: from Modernism to Postmodernism

English-Bulgarian Translation

Transatlantic Poetry

 

MA Program Communication: Language, Literature and the Media:

Literature and Adaptation

 

 

Associate Prof. Dr. Alexander Popov

 

aleksandarnp@uni-sofia.bg

 

 

 

BA:

Genre Reading and Writing

Introduction to General Linguistics

Science Fiction

Utopian Literature

 

MA program Language and Language Sciences:

Corpus Linguistics

Narratology

 

MA Program Communication: Language, Literature and the Media:

Genre Literature: Science Fiction

 

Associate Prof. Dr. Galina Avramova

 

galinana@uni-sofia.bg

 

 

 

BA:

American Literature: from Romanticism to Realism

  • American Literature: from Modernism to
  • Postmodernism
  • Canada: Culture, Society, Policies
  • Multiculturalism in Canadian Literature
  • Popular Literature in North America at the end of the 20th Century and the Beginning of the 21st Century: Historical Metafiction, Fantasy, Horror and Postfeminism
  • MA Program Communication: Language, Literature and Media
  • Canada: Culture and Literature
  • Practical English

 

Senior Assistant Prof. Dr. Nelly Yakimova

 

jakimova@uni-sofia.bg

 

BA:

  • Introduction to Translation Theory and Practice
  • English-Bulgarian Translation
  • Conference Interpreting

 

MA Conference Interpreting:

  • Consecutive Interpreting
  • Simultaneous Interpreting

 

MA Program Language and Language Science:

  • Linguistic and Cultural Aspects of Translation

Media, Society and Translation

 

Senior Assistant Prof. Dr. Vesselin Budakov

 

budakov@uni-sofia.bg

 

BA:

  • English Literature: from Victorianism to Modernism
  • English Literature: The Enlightenment
  • American Literature: from Romanticism to Realism
  • American Literature: from Modernism to Postmodernism

 

MA Program Communication: Language, Literature and Media:

  • Academic Writing
  • Literary Movements and Trends in British Literature

 

Senior Assistant Prof. Dr. Maria Kolarova

 

m.kolarova@uni-sofia.bg

 

BA:

  • Morphology
  • English Morphosyntax
  • Academic and General English Part II
  • Linguistic Creativity: trends in extra-grammatical word-formation in Modern English

 

MA Program Language and Language Sciences:

  • Word-formation in Contemporary English

 

Senior Assistant Prof. Dr. Emilia Slavova

 

ekslavova@uni-sofia.bg

 

BA:

  • Digital Literacy
  • English for Professional Communication
  • English for Social Interaction
  • Intercultural Communication

 

MA Program Language and Language Sciences:

  • Language and Globalization
  • Politeness across Cultures
  • Inclusive Language
  • Academic English I, II

 

Senior Assistant Prof. Dr. Jonathan McCreedy

 

mccreedy@uni-sofia.bg

 

BA:

  • Academic and General English Part 3
  • Academic and General English Part 4
  • Irish Culture
  • An Introduction to James Joyce’s Ulysses
  • English Literature: From Modernism to Post-Modernism

 

MA program Language and Language Sciences:

  • Literary Journalism
  • Irish Literature and Culture

MA Program Communication: Language, Literature and Media:

  • The Modernist Experiment
  • The Irish Revival

 

Senior Assistant Prof. Dr. Irena Dimova

 

ildimova@uni-sofia.bg

 

BA:

  • Academic and General English – Part I
  • Academic and General English – Part II
  • English as an International Language

 

MA Program Language and Language Sciences:

  • Language and Society
  • Writing an MA Thesis
  • Language and Identity

 

Senior Assistant Prof. Dr. Maria Dimitrova

 

maria.dimitrova@fcml.uni-sofia.bg

 

BA:

  • English Literature: from Victorianism to Modernism
  • Stylistics
  • English through Literature
  • T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land in the Context of Anglo-American Modernism

 

MA Program Translation:

  • Creative Writing

 

Senior Assistant Prof. Dr. Irina Kyulanova

 

kjulanova@uni-sofia.bg

 

BA:

  • Bulgarian – English Translation Parts 2 and 3
  • British Society and Culture

 

Senior Assistant Prof. Dr. Rayna Rossenova

 

rrosenova@uni-sofia.bg

 

BA:

  • English Literature: The Enlightenment
  • English Literature: Romanticism

Horror in Popular English Literature

 

Senior Assistant Prof. Dr. Vladimir Phillipov

 

vphillipov1147@gmail.com

 

BA:

  • English Phonetics and Phonology
  • English Intonation

 

Senior Assistant Prof. Dr. Traci Speed

 

speed@uni-sofia.bg

 

BA:

  • Bulgarian-English Translation
  • History of the English Language
  • Practical English Grammar, Part 1

 

Senior Assistant Prof. Dr. Lika Pishtalova

 

pishtalova@uni-sofia.bg

 

BA:

  • Bulgarian-English Translation
  • Introduction to Translation Theory and Practice
  • Workplace Writing

 

Senior Assistant Prof. Dr. Kiril Hadzhikosev

 

 

 

 

BA: English and American studies

American Literature: from Romanticism to Realism

  • American Literature: from Modernism to Postmodernism
  • English Literature: From Modernism to Post-Modernism
  • MA Program Communication: Language, Literature and the Media:
  • Communication and Literature
  • MA Program Foreign Language (English), Literature, Media:
  • Communication and Literature
  • BA: History and foreign language (English / French)
  • Practical English
  • BA: Geography and English
  • Practical English

 

Senior Assistant Prof. Dr. Maria Todorova

 

mivanovat@uni-sofia.bg

 

 

 

BA:

  • English-Bulgarian Translation Part 3
  • English-Bulgarian Translation Part 4

 

MA Program Translation:

  • Software and Translation
  • Machine Translation Post-Editing

 

Senior Assistant Prof. Dr. Plamen Gaptov

 

gaptov@uni-sofia.bg

 

 

 

BA:

English Literature: Medieval to Renaissance

  • English Literature: Renaissance to Baroque

 

Senior Assistant Prof. Dr. Violeta Halacheva

 

vdhalachev@uni-sofia.bg

 

 

 

 

 

Assistant Prof. Georgi Georgiev

 

stilijanog@uni-sofia.bg

 

 

 

BA:

  • Academic and General English: Part 3
  • English – Bulgarian Translation: Part 2
  • Practical English Grammar: Parts 1 and 2

English in the News: Parts 1 and 2

 

Hristina Hristova, Head Librarian

Miroslava Alexieva, Librarian

 

 

 

Honorary lecturers

 

 

Prof. Dr. Snezhina Dimitrova

snezhina@uni-sofia.bg

 

BA:

Remedial Phonetics I

Remedial Phonetics II

Phonetics and Phonology

MA Program Language and Language Sciences:

 

Sounds in language

Speech analysis

Varieties of spoken English

 

Prof. Dr. Kornelia Slavova

 

kornelias@abv.bg

 

 

MA Program Language and Language Sciences:

 

Language in the humanities: the Anglo-American heritage

 

Linguistic and cultural diversity on stage and screen

 

MA Translation:

 

Humanities in translation

 

 

Prof. Evgenia Pancheva, Dr. Habil.

 

jenniepan@abv.bg

 

 

MA Translation:
The Anglophone Cultural Tradition in the Translation of Contemporary Texts

 

 

Associate Prof. Dr. Christo Stamenov

 

chstamenov@abv.bg

 

 

MA Translation:
Contrastive Linguistics

 

MA Language and Language Sciences:
Contrastive Linguistics

 

 

Associate Prof. Dr. Zelma Catalan

 

Zelmacat@gmail.com

 

 

MA Translation:

 

Genre, Style and Translation

 

 

 

 

 

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09/20/2007 03:48 pm


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