Curriculum Vitae

Albena Bakratcheva

Professor Albena Bakratcheva, D.Litt.
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
New Bulgarian University
21 Montevideo Str., Building 2, Room 221
1618 Sofia, Bulgaria
Phone/Fax: (+359-2) 81 10 371
E-mail: abakratcheva@nbu.bg
Website: http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba
LiterNet: http://liternet.bg/publish/alba
Program Website: http://nbu.bg/amb

EDUCATION

2007: D.Litt. in American Studies, New Bulgarian University.
    Major field: Literature and Philosophy.

1995: Ph.D. in English, St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia.
    Major field: Comparative Literature.

1991: Diploma for fluency in German. Academic Level. Goethe Institute,
    Berlin, Germany.

1984: M.A. in Bulgarian and English, St. Kliment Ohridski University of
    Sofia.
    Thesis: Character Drawing in Henry Fielding's Novels.

HABILITATION THESIS
    Visibility Beyond the Visible. The Artistic Discourse of American
    Transcendentalism.
          - The habilitation thesis deals with the poetics of American
        Transcendentalism. It takes it for granted that the major New England
        transcendentalists were of utmost literary significance and focuses on their
        extremely rich and many-sided artistic discourse. The dissertation's
        inevitable European perspective only enhances its preoccupation with the
        Americanness of the movement, thus making it emphasize, in all aspects of
        its concern, the uniqueness of the interrelation between place sense and
        artistry that the transcendentalists' writings offer.

DISSERTATION
    Similarities in Divergences. Realistic Narrative Characteristics in
    the Eighteenth-Century British Novel and Late Nineteenth-Century
    Bulgarian Fiction.
          - The dissertation studies the narrative correspondences
        between the 18^th-Century British Novel and late 19^th-Century
        Bulgarian Fiction, such as point of view (the first-person
        narrative, the omniscient author, the self-conscious narrator),
        character drawing, the implied reader.

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION

•  American Studies
•  American Literature (19^th-Century)
•  British Literature (18^th-Century)
•  West-European Literatures
•  Ancient Literatures
•  Balkan Literatures
•  Bulgarian Literature
•  Postmodern Literature and Culture
•  Comparative Literature
•  History and Theory of Narrative
•  Cultural Studies
•  Interdisciplinary Studies (Literatures and Philosophy,
       Literatures and Anthropology)
•  Composition

2009 -  -      Professor of American Literature. Chair of the
    Ph.D. Program American Studies. Department of Foreign
    Languages and Literatures. New Bulgarian University, Sofia.

2008 -  -      Erasmus-Professor of American Literature. Cattedra di
    Lingue e Letterature Angloamericane. Dipartimento di Lingue
    e letterature moderne. Facultà di Lettere e Filosofia. Università
    degli studi di Macerata, Italia.

2007-2009:  Associate Professor of American Literature. Chair of
    the Ph.D. Program American Studies. Department of Foreign
    Languages and Literatures. New Bulgarian University, Sofia.

2003-2007:  Associate Professor of American Literature. Chair of
    the M.A. Program American and British Studies. Comparative
    Approaches. Chair of the B.A. Program Anglistic. Department of
    Foreign Languages and Literatures. New Bulgarian University,
    Sofia.

2002-2003:  Associate Professor of American Literature. Director of
    the B.A. Program American and British Studies. Department
    of Applied Linguistics. New Bulgarian University, Sofia.

1999-2002:  Associate Professor of American Studies and Cultural
    Anthropology. Department of Anthropology. New Bulgarian
    University, Sofia.

1999-2002:  Associate Professor of American Literature, Ancient and
    West-European Literatures. Department of Literature. Neofit Rilski
    South-West University, Blagoevgrad.

1997-1999:  Assistant Professor of American Studies and Cultural
    Anthropology. Department of Anthropology. New Bulgarian
    University, Sofia.

1997-1999:  Assistant Professor of American Literature, Ancient and
    West-European Literatures. Department of Literature. Neofit Rilski
    South-West University, Blagoevgrad.

1995-1997:  Assistant Professor of American Literature, Ancient
    and West-European Literatures. Department of Literary Theory.
    St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia.

1995-1996:  Assistant Professor of English. Department of English.
    American University in Bulgaria (AUBG), Blagoevgrad.

1989-1992:  Doctoral candidate, Department of English. St. Kliment
    Ohridski University of Sofia.

COURSES TAUGHT

Università degli studi di Macerata, Italia (2008-):

American Literature

New Bulgarian University, Sofia (1997-):

American Literature
American Studies
American Culture
Genius Loci in American Literature
The American Dream as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenon (graduate)
British Literature
The Great Names of American Literature
The Metaphor: Thought and Expression (graduate)

Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv (2002):

The American Dream: Its Foundations and Transformations
    (graduate)

Neofit Rilski South-West University, Blagoevgrad (1997/99):

British Literature: From the 18^th-Century to Nowadays (graduate)
American Literature (graduate)
Ancient Literatures
West-European Literatures
West-European / American Literary Parallels (graduate)
The Novel: From Classical to Modern Times (graduate)

St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia (1995/97):

Seminar on Ancient Literatures: Greek and Latin
Seminar on West-European Literatures
Major American Writers (graduate)

American University in Bulgaria (AUBG), Blagoevgrad (1995/96):

Balkan Literatures: Existential Problems in the Vision of 20^th-
    Century Balkan Authors, co-taught with Prof. Jonathan
    Fairbanks
Composition: Essay Writing

PUBLICATIONS

books

The Call of the Green. Thoreau and Place-Sense in American
    Writing - Veliko Tarnovo: Faber Publishers, 2009. 212 pp.

Visibility Beyond the Visible. The Artistic Discourse of American
    Transcendentalism - Sofia: New Bulgarian University Press, 2007.
    352 pp.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/visible/visible.pdf

The Sun Is but a Morning Star. Anthology of American Literature
    by Albena Bakratcheva: Volume I, New Bulgarian University Press,
    Sofia, 2005. 416 pp.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/sun/1contents.htm

A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever. Online Anthology of British
    Literature: Volumes I-VI - The American and British Studies
    Program at the New Bulgarian University, Sofia, 2003.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/british/authors.htm

The Sun Is but a Morning Star. Online Anthology of American
    Literature: Volumes I-VI - The American and British Studies
    Program at the New Bulgarian University, Sofia, 2002.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/american/authors.htm

Life Without Principle. Selected Works of Henry David Thoreau -
    Sofia: LIK Publishing House, 2001. 567 pp.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/life/life.htm
    Second (electronic) edition - Varna: EP LiterNet, November 20,
    2002.
    http://liternet.bg/publish6/dtoro/life/index.html

Potentialities of Discourse. Bulgarian/British-American Cross-
    cultural Dialogues - Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski University Press,
    1997. 202 pp.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/potenti/potenti.htm
    Second (electronic) edition - Varna: EP LiterNet, July 15, 2000.
    http://liternet.bg/publish/alba/zalozhbi/index.html

Similarities in Divergences. Realistic Narrative Characteristics in the
    Eighteenth-Century British Novel and Late Nineteenth-Century
    Bulgarian Fiction - Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski University Press,
    1995. 130 pp.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/similar/similar.htm
    Second (electronic) edition - Varna: EP LiterNet, July 15, 2000.
    http://liternet.bg/publish/alba/blizost/index.html

essays and articles - in miscellanea

The Stranger and the Inhabitant Viewing the Shore in Thoreau's
    "Cape Cod" - In: Annual of New Bulgarian University. Department
    of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Sofia, 2009. (Issued on CD:
    New Bulgarian University, June 2009)

The Transatlantic Identity of the Transcendentalist: New England
    Horizons of Postkantianism - In: Trans/American, Trans/Oceanic,
    Trans/lation. Selected Proceedings of the Third World Congress of
    the International American Studies Association (IASA): University
    of Lisbon, Portugal, September 20-23, 2007. (Issued on CD:
    CafePress, San Mateo, CA, June 2009)

Between Nonconformity and Belonging: The New England "Club
    of the Like-Minded" - In: Conformism, Non-Conformism and
    Anti-Conformism in the Culture of the United States. Edited by
    Antonis Balasopoulos, Gesa Mackenthun, Theodora Tsimpouki.
    Series: European Views of the United States. Edited by the
    Officers of the European Association for American Studies,
    Volume 1. Universitätsverlag WINTER, Heidelberg, Germany,
    2008, 81-90.

Thoreau's Way from Emerson to Thoreau: The Gesture of Self-
    Naming - In: The Thoreau Reader, EServer Web Publishing Project,
    at Iowa State University, in Ames, Iowa. Ed. by Richard Lenat, 2007.
    http://thoreau.eserver.org/naming.html • Cached

In the Quiet Correspondences of Inner and Outer Landscapes:
    H. D. Thoreau and "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"
    - In: Annual of New Bulgarian University. Department of Foreign
    Languages and Literatures. Issue: Language, Literature, Culture,
    Volume 7, Sofia, 2007. (Issued on CD: New Bulgarian University,
    June 2007)
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/bulgar/week.htm

Thoreau's "Homeric Experiment" - In: The Word - Ancient and
    Modern. Jubilee Conference of the Faculty of Classical and Modern
    Philology. Volume 1/2005, Edited by Svetlana Arnaudova - Sofia:
    St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2007. 148-152.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/bulgar/homer.htm

Resounding New England Culture Today: Poetic Voices and Visions
    - In: Culture, Education and Leadership Today and Tomorrow.
    Proceedings of the 7^th International Fulbright Conference, Sofia,
    May 12-13, 2006. (Issued on CD: Bulgarian-American Commission
    for Educational Exchange, Sofia, December 2006)

Revelations of the Place: Transatlantic Romantic Globalizations
    - In: Spaces, Gaps, Borders. Proceedings of the 8^th International
    Conference of the Bulgarian Society for British Studies held in
    Sofia, 24-26 October, 2003. Volume I, Literature and Cultural
    Studies, Edited by Dr. Svetlin Stratiev and Assoc. Prof. Vesela
    Katsarova, Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2006,
    273-278.

With or Without Principle: Transcending Transcendentalism.
    Aesthetic Controversies, Receptional Modes - In: Annual of New
    Bulgarian University. Department of Foreign Languages and
    Literatures. Issue: Language, Literature, Culture, Volume 6, Sofia,
    2005, 227-231.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/english/principl.htm

Locating the American Voice: Space Relation as Self-Identification in
    Henry David Thoreau's Vision - In: How Far is America from Here?.
    Selected Proceedings of the First World Congress of the
    International American Studies Association 22-24 May 2003. Edited
    by Theo D'haen, Paul Giles, Djelal Kadir, and Lois Parkinson
    Zamora, Series: TextxeT. Studies in Comparative Literature 47,
    Rodopi, Amsterdam-New York, NY, 2005, 383-391.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/english/leiden.htm
    http://www.rodopi.nl/functions/search.asp?BookId=TEXTXET+47
    • Cached
    How Far is America from Here?: Google Book Search

The Strange Liberty of Walking 'Walden' - In: The Concord Saunterer.
    Special 'Walden' Sesquicentennial Issue: Walden the Place and
    'Walden' the Book, Published Annually by The Thoreau Society,
    Concord, Massachusetts, U.S.A., Volume 12/13, 2004/2005, 18-20.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/english/liberty.htm

Frontier Transcendences: The Need for Local Memories - In: America
    in the 21^st-Century. Proceedings of the International Conference
    of the Bulgarian-American Fulbright Commission and the Bulgarian
    American Studies Association (BASA), Sofia, November 21-22,
    2003. (Issued on CD: Bulgarian-American Commission for
    Educational Exchange, Sofia, November 2004)
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/english/frontier.htm

Transatlantic Metamorphoses of Postkantianism: Ralph Waldo
    Emerson - In: Kant and the Dialogue of Traditions. Volume
    Dedicated to the 280^th Anniversary of Immanuel Kant's Birth and
    the 200^th Anniversary of his Death, Blagoevgrad: Neofit Rilski
    University Press, 2004, 383-403.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/bulgar/kantian.htm

In the Hour of Eve's Narrowing: Georgi Rupchev - In: The End of
    Modernity? Culture and Criticism, Part III, Varna: LiterNet
    Publishing House, 2003, 492-496.
    http://liternet.bg/publish/alba/zalozhbi/grupchev.htm

The Wild, The West, The World: The Wild West World or the World
    Wild West - In: Annual of New Bulgarian University. Department of
    Applied Linguistics. Issue: Applied Linguistics and Methodics
    of Foreign Language Teaching, Part IV, Sofia, 2003, 122-125.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/english/helsinki.htm

Visibility Beyond the Visible: American Transcendentalism and/in
    Bulgarian Culture - In: ZENAF Conference Proceedings, Cultural
    Exchanges between Central/Eastern Europe and America -
    East-West American Studies Conference, 29 May - 2 June, 2002
    at the Zentrum für Nordamerika-Forschung, Johann Wolfgang
    Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Volume 3/2003, 40-59.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/english/frankfrt.htm

A Fate That Never Turns Aside: Globalization and Convergence - In:
    FULBRIGHT, Knowledge, Power and Freedom in a Changing World.
    Proceedings of the Fifth International Fulbright Conference, Sofia,
    May 16-18, 2003. Sofia: Bulgarian-American Commission for
    Educational Exchange, 2003, 288-294.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/english/fb-5.htm

In the Hour of Eve's Narrowing: Georgi Rupchev - In: Culture and
    Criticism, Part III: The End of Modernity?, Varna: EP LiterNet,
    February 19, 2003.
    http://liternet.bg/publish/alba/zalozhbi/grupchev.htm

Visibility Beyond the Visible. Preface. - In: Life Without Principle.
    Selected Works of Henry David Thoreau. Sofia: LIK Publishing
    House, 2001.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/life/life-int.htm

From Interculturality to Multiculturality in Liberal Education - In:
    FULBRIGHT, Globalization and Cultural Differences. Proceedings
    of the Fourth International Fulbright Conference, Sofia, May 19-21,
    2000. Sofia: Bulgarian-American Commission for Educational
    Exchange, 2001, 169-171.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/english/fb-4.htm

American Transcendentalism - In: Kant and the Kantian Tradition in
    Bulgaria. Volume in Honor of the 100^th Anniversary of Prof. Tzeko
    Torbov, Sofia: LIK Publishing House, 2001, 336-341.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/bulgar/kant.htm

Late 19^th-Century Bulgarian Fiction in the Light of the European
    Novelistic Tradition - In: Balgarskata myara v literaturata, Sofia:
    Balgarski pisatel, 3, 1999, 250-287.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/bulgar/bgfic.htm

Life as Vocation. Preface. - In: H.D.Thoreau, Walden. Civil
    Disobedience. Narodna Kultura, Sofia, 1993.

essays and articles - in periodicals

The Glamorous Burst of American Critical Thought: Margaret Fuller
    - In: Ezik i Literatura, Sofia, 3-4, 2007, 46-54.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/bulgar/fuller.htm

In the Harmony of a Sanctuary Preserved: Walden, Thoreau and
    "Walden" - In: Filosofia, Sofia, 4, 2006, 10-17.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/bulgar/corresp.htm

"Walden": Thoreau's Artistic Harmony - In: Sledva, Sofia, Issue 14,
    May 2006, 66-73.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/bulgar/harmony.htm

The Ecopoetic Thoreau - In: Ezik i Literatura, Sofia, 1-2, 2006,
    225-240.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/bulgar/ecoc.htm

Metamorphoses of the Frontier: Realities and Haunting Ghosts of
    Americanization - In: eRUNSMAGAZINE.COM, Issue 42,
    February 2006.
    http://www.erunsmagazine.com/?rq=page&artid=57 • Cached

Mentorship as Vocation: Thoreau through the Eyes of Emerson
    - In: Filosofia, Sofia, 4, 2005, 38-45.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/bulgar/mentor.htm

Visibility Beyond the Visible: American Transcendentalism and/in
    Bulgarian Culture - In: Media Times Review, Issue April 2005. http://mediatimesreview.com/april05/AmericanTranscendentalism.php
    • Cached

Traditions and Individual Talent: Emerson and Thoreau - In: Ezik i
    Literatura, Sofia, 1-2, 2005, 206-221.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/bulgar/talent.htm

Letters to a Spiritual Seeker - In: Literaturen vestnik, Sofia,
    7, 23.2-1.3.2005.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/bulgar/seek.htm

The American 'Defense of Poetry' - Apotheosis of the American Poet
    - In: Foreign Language Teaching, Sofia, 4, 2004, 64-73.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/bulgar/apotheos.htm

American Transcendentalism: Artistic/Religious Practice and Way
    of Life - In: Filosofia, Sofia, 2, 2004, 42-52.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/bulgar/artistic.htm

The Poet-Priest: the Aesthetic Model for the American
    Transcendentalists - In: Ezik i Literatura, Sofia, 1-2, 2004, 192-202.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/bulgar/poet.htm

The Foundations of American Transcendentalism: Puritanism and
    18^th-Century Rationalism - In: Media Times Review, Issue May
    2004.
    http://www.mediatimesreview.com/May04/Transcendentalism.php
    • Cached

The Transatlantic Identity of the Transcendentalist - In: Literaturen
    vestnik, Sofia, 15, 14-20.4.2004.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/bulgar/dial.htm

American Transcendentalism - In: Media Times Review, Issue
    April 2004.
    http://www.mediatimesreview.com/april04/Americantrans.php
    • Cached

Transcendentalism and Romanticism: Transatlantic Parallels
    - In: Sledva, Sofia, Issue 6, August 2003, 68-77.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/bulgar/atlan.htm

Interculturality in the Garden: Americanization and Otherness
    - In: eRUNSMAGAZINE.COM, Issue 6, February 2003.
    http://erunsmagazine.com/0203/?rq=bakratcheva

The Foundations of American Transcendentalism: Puritanism and
    18^th-Century Rationalism - In: Filosofski forum, Sofia, III, Vol. 9,
    No. 1, 2001, 211-222.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/bulgar/foundat.htm

Prof. Thomas Leonard, The Cold War and Beyond: Perspectives on
    United States Foreign Policy (Introduction) - In: Literaturen vestnik,
    Sofia, 16, 25.4-1.5.2001.
    http://www.slovo.bg/old/litvestnik/116/lv0116007.htm • Cached

Inspiration in the Aesthetical Vision of the American
    Transcendentalists - In: Filosofia, Sofia, 1, 2001, 30-36.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/bulgar/inspirat.htm

Unitarianism in the Spiritual Tradition of American
    Transcendentalism - In: Filosofia, Sofia, 1, 2000, 8-15.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/bulgar/unitar.htm

Thoreau in Bulgaria - In: Demokraticheski pregled, Sofia, 32,
    Summer '97, 137-147.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/bulgar/tinb.htm

The Impossible Coming True: Richard Adams - In: Vek 21, Sofia,
    18, 13-19.6.1997.

The Dark Side of the Ego: Margaret Drabble - In: Vek 21, Sofia,
    12, 2-8.5.1997.

The Unity of the Whole: Joyce Carol Oates - In: Vek 21, Sofia,
    5, 14-20.2.1997.

Amidst the Eternal Cycle: Gloria Naylor - In: Vek 21, Sofia,
    1, 17-23.1.1997.

The Word as Motion: Bruce Chatwin - In: Vek 21, Sofia, 30,
    6-12.12.1996.

The Psychological Mystery of Crime: Patricia Highsmith - In: Vek 21,
    Sofia, 22, 13-20.10.1996.

Visibility Beyond the Visible. American Literary Transcendentalism
    - In: Ezik i Literatura, Sofia, 3, 1995, 13-26.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/bulgar/visible.htm

"Thus the Novel Beginneth..." Narrative Features in the Eighteenth-
    Century British Novel and Late Nineteenth-Century Bulgarian
    Fiction. - In: Literaturna Misal, Sofia, 1, 1993, 48-78.

Life as Vocation. - In: Vek 21, Sofia, 44, 4-10.10.1992.

Similarities in Divergences. Narrative Parallels in the Works of Oliver
    Goldsmith and Mihalaki Georgiev - In: Ezik i Literatura, Sofia,
    2, 1992, 49-62.

The Achilles' Heel of the Character - In: Septemvri, Sofia, 6, 1989,
    240-246. - On the novels of Dimitar Dimov.

Need or Possibility? - In: Septemvri, Sofia, 6, 1988, 218-228.
    - On the book series of 1986/87 Writer and Society.

The Split Identity of Asen Raztzvetnikov - In: Ezik i Literatura,
    Sofia, 1, 1988, 112-117. - On the Poetry of Asen Raztzvetnikov.

The Heart and the Mind... - In: Septemvri, Sofia, 9, 1986, 213-224.
    - A literary portrait of the poet Valeri Petrov.

"Hell" - PRESTO Towards "September" - In: Literaturna Misal,
    Sofia, 8, 1986, 103-109. - On the poetics of Geo Milev.

book reviews

Politics as Novel and Novel as Politics - In: Panorama, Sofia, 6, 1990,
    240-243. - On the Bulgarian translation (1989) of Norman Mailer's
    Armies of the Night.

Not To Be Afraid of Virginia Woolf - In: Panorama, Sofia, 3, 1990,
    220-222. - On the Bulgarian translation (1989) of Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf.

The Saga of Arthur and His Knights - In: Puls, Sofia, 6, 6.2.1990.
    - On the epic Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory, Bulgarian
    translation (1989).

The Freed Centaur - In: Puls, Sofia, 32, 9.8.1988. - On the book of
    short stories Talking Horse by Bernard Malamud, Bulgarian
    translation (1988).

The Moment When Everything Is Clear - In: Literaturen Front, Sofia,
    22, 26.5.1988. - On the book Tender Profiles (1988) by Petar
    Karaangov.

The "Verblyud" Lives Everywhere - In: Plamak, Sofia, 3, 1988,
    176-178. - On the critic book Jordan Radichkov (1986) by Encho
    Mutafov and Dimitar Staykov.

With Theophrastus While Asleep and Awake - In: Septemvri, Sofia,
    3, 1988, 249-251. - On the satiric book Theophrastus, the Official
    (1987) by Radoy Ralin.

Life in Emptiness - In: ABV, Sofia, 3, 23.2.1988. - On the Bulgarian
    translation (1987) of the novel Drifting Along by Ann Beattie.

In the Hour of Eve's Narrowing - In: Septemvri, Sofia, 4, 1987,
    245-247. - On the lyric book Changing the Night Guard (1986) by
    Georgi Rupchev.

Methodology and Meaning - In: Ezik i Literatura, Sofia, 3, 1987,
    126-128. - On the book Bases of Literary Comparativistics (1986)
    by Boyan Nichev.

The Limits and Possibilities of the Literary Theory (1986), miscellany
    - In: ABV, Sofia, 1, 6.1.1987.

Again on "The Little Dishonesty of Life" - In: Septemvri, Sofia, 7,
    1986, 251-254. - On the book of short stories Innocent Monsters
    (1985) by Zlatomir Zlatanov.

A Chronicle of Another Troubled Epoch - In: Septemvri, Sofia, 5,
    1986, 244-247. - On the novel Union is Strength (1985) by Vera
    Mutafchieva.

CONFERENCES

The Delegated Intellect of Transcendental New England: Then
    and Now. Thoreau Society Annual Gathering: "Thoreau &
    Transcendentalism, Then and Now", Concord, Massachusetts,
    U.S.A., July 8-11, 2010.

The Glamorous Burst of American Literary Criticism: Margaret Fuller
    - Academic Reading in Honor of Prof. Milena Tsaneva, Public
    Library "Saints Cyril and Methodius", Sofia, June 24-25, 2010.

A Portrait of the Intellectual as a "Young Man of Fairest Promise":
    Emerson's "The American Scholar" - Biennial Conference of the
    European Association for American Studies (EAAS): "For Ever
    Young"? The Changing Images of America", Trinity College,
    University College, The Irish Association for American Studies,
    Dublin, Ireland, March 26-29, 2010.

Art and Artlessness in 19^th Century America: Poe and His
    Aesthetical Context - An International Conference of
    the Academic Circle of Comparative Literature (ACCL) and
    the Bulgarian American Studies Association (BASA): Edgar
    Alan Poe - marginal and universal, St. Kliment Ohridski
    University of Sofia, October 30-31, 2009.

Encoding and Decoding an American Cultural Hallmark: Emerson's
    "American Scholar" Revisited - 4th World Congress of
    the International American Studies Association (IASA):
    Decoding American Culture in the Global Context, Beijing Foreign
    Studies University, Beijing, China, September 18-20, 2009.

Thoreau Society Annual Gathering: Book Signing. Albena
    Bakratcheva, The Call of the Green. Thoreau and Place-Sense
    in American Writing. Trinitarian Congregational Church,
    54 Walden Street, Concord, MA, U.S.A., Saturday, July 11, 2009.

Wisdom Applied to Life: Thoreau's Life With(out) Principle.
    Thoreau Society Annual Gathering: Social Awareness: Thoreau
    and the Reform Movement, Concord, Massachusetts, U.S.A.,
    July 9-12, 2009.

War and American Identity Conference - Department of History UCC,
    The Clinton Institute for American Studies UCD, University College,
    Dublin, Ireland, March 20-21, 2009.

The Meanings of "Civil Disobedience". Workshop Session Chair -
    Thoreau Society Annual Gathering: "The Individual and the
    State: The Politics of Thoreau in Our Time", Concord,
    Massachusetts, U.S.A., July 10-13, 2008.

"You May Name It America, but It is Not America": Place Sense in
    Transcendental New England - Biennial Conference of the
    European Association for American Studies (EAAS): "E pluribus
    unum" or "E pluribus plura"?, University of Oslo, Norway, May 9-12,
    2008.

Roundtable Discussion: Student Involvement in Academic Life
    - Eight International Fulbright Conference: Education and
    Society: Problems, Prospects, Prognoses, Bulgarian-American
    Commission for Educational Exchange, Sofia, April 11-12, 2008.

Environmentalism and the Phenomenon of Inhabitation in Thoreau's
    Cape Cod - Annual Conference of the Bulgarian American Studies
    Association (BASA): The Study of America and American Studies
    in the 21^st Century, St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia,
    December 1-2, 2007.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/english/capecod.htm

The Transatlantic Identity of the Transcendentalist: New England
    Horizons of Postkantianism - Third World Congress of the
    International American Studies Association (IASA):
    Trans/American, Trans/Oceanic, Trans/lation, Lisbon,
    Portugal, September 20-23, 2007.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/english/iasa07.htm

Visibility Beyond the Visible. The Artistic Discourse of American
    Transcendentalism. Workshop Session Chair - Thoreau Society
    Annual Gathering: "Simplify, simplify: Thoreau's Timeless
    Message", Concord, Massachusetts, U.S.A., July 12-15, 2007.

The Stranger and the Inhabitant Viewing the Shore in Thoreau's
    Cape Cod, Panel on Wildness in Thoreau's Cape Cod - Thoreau
    Society Annual Gathering: Mountains, Seashores and Moonlight:
    Thoreau's Exploration of Wildness, Concord, Massachusetts,
    U.S.A., July 6-9, 2006.

Resounding New England Culture Today: Poetic Voices and Visions
    - Seventh International Fulbright Conference: Culture, Education
    and Leadership Today and Tomorrow, Bulgarian-American
    Commission for Educational Exchange, Sofia, May 12-13, 2006.

The New England "Club of the Likeminded": Discord and/in Concord
    - Biennial Conference of the European Association for American
    Studies (EAAS): Conformism, Non-conformism, and Anti-
    conformism in the Culture of the United States, University of
    Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, April 7-10, 2006.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/english/cyprus.htm

Thoreau's "Homeric Experiment" - National conference: The Word -
    Ancient and Modern, St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia,
    Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology, December 5-6, 2005.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/bulgar/homer.htm

Thoreau's Way from Emerson to Thoreau: Thoreau's Self-Naming,
    Panel on Trancendentalism: Emerson to Thoreau - Thoreau
    Society Annual Gathering: Thoreau: Nature, Science, and Higher
    Laws, Concord, Massachusetts, U.S.A., July 7-10, 2005.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/english/naming.htm

Place Voices: Susan Howe and the References of New England
    Culture - The 29^th International Conference of The American
    Studies Association of Norway (ASANOR): The U.S. Today,
    University of Oslo, Norway, September 24-26, 2004.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/english/howe.htm

Thoreau's Existential Drama - Thoreau Society Annual Gathering,
    Concord, Massachusetts, U.S.A., July 8-11, 2004.

Meeting the Morning Star of Walden: Beyond the Visibilities of
    Ex-Communism, Panel on Thoreau's 'Walden' in the Global
    Community - Thoreau Society Annual Gathering: 'Walden':
    Of Its Time, For Our Time; A Sesquicentennial Celebration,
    Concord, Massachusetts, U.S.A., July 8-11, 2004.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/english/walden.htm

Frontier Transcendences: The Need for Local Memories
    - An International Conference of the Bulgarian-American Fulbright
    Commission and the Bulgarian American Studies Association
    (BASA): America in the 21^st-Century, St. Kliment Ohridski
    University of Sofia, November 21-22, 2003.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/english/frontier.htm

Frontier Metamorphoses: Americanization and Otherness
    - An International Conference of the Research Institute for
    Austrian and International Literature and Cultural Studies (INST):
    The Unifying Aspects of Cultures. Chair of the section
    Frontier Metamorphoses: Americanization and Otherness,
    Austria Center, Vienna, Austria, November 7-9, 2003.
    http://www.inst.at/trans/15Nr/05_07/bakratcheva_report15.htm
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Revelations of the Place: Transatlantic Romantic Globalizations -
    Eighth International Conference of the Bulgarian Society for British
    Studies (BSBS): Spaces, Gaps, Borders. Chair of the session
    Literature in English: Straddling Gaps and Borders II, Park-Hotel
    Moscow, Sofia, October 24-26, 2003.

Revelations of the Place: Transatlantic Romantic Globalizations -
    An Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) Conference:
    Nineteenth-Century Worlds: Local/Global, University of Notre
    Dame, London, UK, July 10-12, 2003.

Locating the American Voice: Space Relation as Self-Identification in
    Henry David Thoreau's Vision - First World Congress of the
    International American Studies Association (IASA): How Far is
    America from Here?, Leiden, The Netherlands, May 22-24, 2003.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/english/leiden.htm

Metamorphoses of the Frontier: Realities and Haunting Ghosts of
    Americanization - An International Conference: Crossing Cultures:
    Travel and the Frontiers of North-American Identity, Institute for
    North-American Studies (INAS). University of Groningen,
    The Netherlands, May 19-21, 2003.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/english/gron.htm

Americanness Redefined: Figuring Globalized America As Home -
    The 27^th International ASANOR/SAAS Conference: America at
    Home and Abroad, Ostfold University College, Fredrikstad, Norway,
    September 20-22, 2002.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/english/halden.htm

The Wild, The West, The World: The Wild West World or the World
    Wild West - The 9^th Biennial Maple Leaf and Eagle Conference on
    North American Studies: Reconfigurations of Native North
    America, University of Helsinki, Finland, September 3-6, 2002.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/english/helsinki.htm

Visibility Beyond the Visible: American Transcendentalism and/in
    Bulgarian Culture - East-West American Studies Conference:
    Cultural Exchanges between Central/Eastern Europe and America,
    Center for North American Studies and Research. Johann
    Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany,
    May 30-June 02, 2002.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/english/frankfrt.htm

A Fate That Never Turns Aside: Globalization and Convergence -
    Fifth International Fulbright Conference: Knowledge, Power and
    Freedom in a Changing World, Bulgarian-American Commission
    for Educational Exchange, Sofia, May 16-18, 2002.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/english/fb-5.htm

Interculturality in the Garden: Americanization and Otherness -
    The First ASPS Seminar: Globalization and Business Cultures,
    American Studies Project at Skeria, Skelleftea, Sweden, February
    15-16, 2002.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/english/skeria.htm

Carlyle's London and London's Carlyle: An American
    Transcendentalist Vision - The Literature Meta-conference:
    Infinite Londons, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania,
    October 18-21, 2001.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/english/sibiu.htm

From Interculturality to Multiculturality in Liberal Education - Fourth
    International Fulbright Conference: Globalization and Cultural
    Differences, Bulgarian-American Commission for Educational
    Exchange, Sofia, May 19-21, 2000.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/english/fb-4.htm

American Transcendentalism - Theoretical Conference: Kant and
    the Kantian Tradition in Bulgaria, Bulgarian Kant Society, Sofia,
    April 15-16, 1999.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/bulgar/kant.htm

From Civil Disobedience to Civil Society - Third International
    Fulbright Conference: Education and Civil Society in the Post-
    totalitarian World, Bulgarian-American Commission for Educational
    Exchange, Sofia, May 14-17, 1998.
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/english/fb-3.htm

Henry David Thoreau and the Spiritual Emancipation in Bulgaria -
    Annual Thoreau Society Meeting, Concord, Massachusetts, U.S.A.,
    July 8-11, 1993. (Fulbright Study)
    http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/alba/public/english/fb-study.htm

Two Early Interpretations of a Literary Model. Narrative Parallels in
    the Works of Oliver Goldsmith and Mihalaki Georgiev - National
    Conference of Young Scholars of Literature and Language,
    Varna, May 14-17, 1988.

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