The journal’s editorial board includes Bulgarian and foreign scholars with established national and international standing in the fields of Bulgarian studies, Slavic studies, and Balkan studies.
Editor-in-Chief
Valentina Bondzholova (PhD, Profеssor at St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria) – modern Bulgarian language; lexicology, lexicography, neology; language culture; the language game in the media and advertising; media linguistics; Bulgarian language as a foreign language.
https://orcid.org/0009-0001-6703-5748
e-mail: v.bondjolova@ts.uni-vt.bg
Deputy Chief Editor
Nadezhda Hristova (PhD, Assoc. Profеssor at St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria) – relations between Church and State in medieval Europe; the status of women in medieval Europe; marriage and matrimonial relations in Christian Europe in the Middle Ages; the daily round of medieval Europeans.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0101-4802
e-mail: n.hristova@ts.uni-vt.bg
Executive Editor
Aleksandar Hristov (PhD, Senior Lecturer at St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria) – Bulgarian literature, history of Bulgarian literature; Bulgarian literature after the Liberation; Bulgarian modernism; Bulgarian literature of the 20th century; comparative literary studies; operational literary criticism; contemporary Bulgarian literature; literary theory.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2358-8682
e-mail: a.h.hristov@ts.uni-vt.bg
Members
Karim Abdelghani Mahmoud Abdelati (PhD, Assoc. Professor at Mansoura University in Egypt) – medieval history and religion; intercultural dialogue; Cyril and Methodius studies; Bulgarian Bogomilism; cross-cultural dialogue; Balkan studies.
https://artsfac.mans.edu.eg/en/
e-mail: karim_1095@yahoo.com
Diana Blagoeva (PhD, Professor at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) – modern Bulgarian; contrastive linguistics; corpus linguistics;
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2616-2652;
е-mail: d.blagoeva@ibl.bas.bg
Stoyan Burov (Dr. Habil and Corresponding Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; Dr. Habil, Professor at St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria) – Bulgarian language, linguistics; functional morphology; Bulgarian linguistic heritage; Bulgarian language as a foreign language.
Office e-mail: s.burov@ts.uni-vt.bg
Personal e-mail: stobur@abv.bg
Pavlin Chaushev (PhD, Assoc. Professor at St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria) – traditional material culture; mythology; Slavic, Balkan and non-European ethnology, ethnology of socialism, ethnology of the city; Bulgarian folk psychology; historical demography; Bulgarian folk culture.
e-mail: p.chaushev@ts.uni-vt.bg
Tsenka Ivanova (PhD, Professor at St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria) – theory and history of the South Slavic languages, history of the Bulgarian language, comparative Slavic linguistic studies (with an emphasis on South Slavic and Balkan Slavic), languages and intercultural communications (sociolinguistics, lingucultural studies, Bulgarian studies abroad); applied linguistics: teaching closely related languages, incl. teaching Bulgarian as a second/foreign language; applied linguistics – lexicography.
e-mail: c.ivanova@ts.uni-vt.bg
Todor Galounov (Dr. Habil, Professor at St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria) – theory and history of electoral systems in parliamentary elections; constitutional-criminal liability of ministers in Bulgarian political practice; the political system of Bulgaria in the period between the 19th and 21st centuries; the evolution of European integration.
e-mail: t.galounov@ts.uni-vt.bg
Nevena Gavazova (PhD, Assoc. Professor at St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria) – interdisciplinary medieval studies (Old Bulgarian literature, palaeoslavistics, Byzantinism); agiology, hermeneutics, history of medieval arts, history of Bulgarian literature /Middle Ages and Early Renaissance/ and Bulgarian folk art.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2109-1066
e-mail: n.gavazova@ts.uni-vt.bg
Nikolay Kanev (PhD, Professor at St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria) – political, cultural and socio-economic history of Byzantium and the Balkans; history of medieval Europe; Byzantine rank hierarchy; sigillography; prosopography; state ideology; historical demography; historical geography.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0570-8078
e-mail: kanev_nikolay@hotmail.com
Svetla Koeva (PhD, Professor at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) – computational linguistics and natural language processing.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5947-8736
е-mail: svetla@dcl.bas.bg
Kiril Marinow (PhD, Assoc. Professor, University of Lodz, Poland) – medieval Bulgarian history (7th–14th centuries); Byzantine-Bulgarian relations during the Middle Ages, especially military struggles and mutual perceptions between Byzantines and Bulgarians; historical geography and geopolitics of the Balkan Peninsula in the Middle Ages; Byzantine militarism; Byzantine literature: historiography, epistolography, rhetoric and military manuals; history of the mountains and their inhabitants in the Middle Ages; medieval capitals (Constantinople, Veliki Preslav, Veliko Tarnovo); the Bible in the literature and culture of the medieval Balkans.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0224-3965
e-mail: kiril.marinow@uni.lodz.pl
Georgi Minchev (Dr. Habil, Professor at University of Lodz, Poland) – folklore studies; Old Bulgarian literature and language; palaeoslavistics.
е-mail:
Velin Petrov (PhD, Assoc. Professor at St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria) – modern Bulgarian linguistics, Balkan linguistics.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1580-0177
e-mail: v.d.petrov@ts.uni-vt.bg
Teodora Rabovyanova (PhD, Assoc. Professor at St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria) – modern Bulgarian language; morphology, stylistics, syntax, semantics; speech culture; Bulgarian language as a foreign language.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2879-6752
e-mail: t.kurteva@ts.uni-vt.bg
Niya Radeva (PhD, Assoc. Professor at St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria) – onomastics, anthroponymy; history of the Bulgarian language.
e-mail: n.radeva@ts.uni-vt.bg
Kamen Rikev (Dr. Habil, Professor at UMCS: Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin) – Polish-Bulgarian literary and cultural ties; the Christian worldview in modern Bulgarian culture; historiography of Slavic and Balkan literatures.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6606-4731
e-mail: rikev@umcs.pl
Fotini Toloudi (EDIP at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) – the dynamics of teaching practice in History lessons; identity issues in the Balkans and in particular the ideological-political dimensions of school; history and the role of the teacher; public history and historical consciousness; Bulgarian history and culture.
e-mail: ftoloudi@edlit.auth.gr
Stanimir Trifonov (PhD, Professor at South-West University “Neofit Rilski”) – culture, literature, and art; film and television directing; theater and film art.
e-mail: tristanfilm@abv.bg
English Language Editor
Iliyana Dimitrova (PhD, Senior Lecturer at St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria) – Bulgarian as a second language – acquisition and pedagogy; phraseology; lexical semantics; linguistic anthropology; linguoculturology; ethnolinguistics; psycholinguistics; cognitive linguistics; and intercultural communication.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9099-1925
E-mail: iliyana.dimitrova@ts.uni-vt.bg
Editor’s Address
Prof. Valentina Bondzholova, PhD
Room 519 (Rectorate), tel. +359 62 618 383
St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo,
2 Teodosiy Tarnovski St., 5003 Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
St. Cyril and St. Methodius University Press
2 Teodosiy Tarnovski St., 5003 Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
(00359.62 / 618 295)