INSTITUTE OF BULGARIAN STUDIES

Editorial Board

of the journal "Bulgarian Studies"

The editorial board of the publication includes Bulgarian and foreign scholars with proven national and international authority in the field of Bulgarian studies, Slavic studies and Balkan studies.

Editor-in-Chief

Valentina Bondzholova (Prof. PhD 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; the Bulgarian language as a foreign language.

https://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0009-0001-6703-5748

e-mail: v.bondjolova@ts.uni-vt.bg

Deputy Chief Editor

Nadezhda Hristova (Assoc. Prof. PhD at St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria) – State – church relations in Europe during the Middle Ages; the status of women in medieval Europe; marriage and matrimonial relations in Christian Europe in the Middle Ages; the everyday life of the medieval European.

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0101-4802

e-mail: n.hristova@ts.uni-vt.bg

Executive Editor

Alexander Hristov (Senior Lecturer Professor 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 of the international editorial board

Karim Abdelghani Mahmoud Abdelati (Assoc. Prof. PhD  at Mansoura University in Egypt) – Medieval History and Religion; Intercultural dialogue; Cyril and Methodius studies; Bulgarian Bogomilism, Balkan History and Culture.

https://artsfac.mans.edu.eg/en/

email: karim_1095@yahoo.com

Diana Blagoeva (PhD, Prof. at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Republic of 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; Prof. Dr. Habil. 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

Nevena Gavazova (Assoc. Prof. PhD  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

Todor Galunov (Prof. Dr. Habil. at St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Republic of 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 19-21 century; the evolution of European integration.

e-mail: t.galounov@ts.uni-vt.bg

Tsenka Ivanova (Prof. Ph.D. at St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Republic of 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

Svetla Koeva (PhD, Prof. at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Republic of Bulgaria) – Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing; 

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5947-8736

е-mail: svetla@dcl.bas.bg

Kiril MARINOW (Assoc. Prof. PhD, 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, Great Preslav, Veliko Tarnovo); The Bible in the literature and culture of the medieval Balkans.

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5947-8736

e-mail: svetla@dcl.bas.bg

Nikolay Kanev (PhD, Prof. at St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria) – Political, cultural and socio-economic history of Byzantium and of the Balkans; history of medieval Europe; Byzantine rank hierarchy; sigillography; prosopography; state ideology; historical demography; historical geography.

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0570-8078

е-mail: kanev_nikolay@hotmail.com

Kiril Marinow (Assoc. Prof. Ph.D., University of Lodz, Poland) – medieval Bulgarian history (7th–14th centuries); Byzantine-Bulgarian relations in 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 (PhD, Prof., University of Lodz, Poland) – Folklore Studies; Old Bulgarian Literature and Language; Palaeoslavistics.

e-mail:

Velin Petrov (Assoc. Prof. PhD 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 (Assoc. Prof. PhD  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

Nia Radeva Assoc. Prof. PhD  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

Fotini Toludi (EDIP at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) – The dynamics of teaching practice in the History lesson; 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.

Email: ftoloudi@edlit.auth.gr

Stanimir Trifonov (PhD, Prof. at South-West University "Neofit Rilski") – Culture, literature and art; Film and television directing; Theater and film art.

Email: tristanfilm@abv.bg

Pavlin Chaushev (Assoc. Prof. Dr. at the VTU "St. St. Cyril and Methodius", Republic of 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

Editorial Board Address:

Prof. Dr. Valentina Bondjolova

Institute of Bulgarian Studies, Room 519 (Rectorate)

2 Teodosii Tarnovski St., 5003 Veliko Tarnovo

Tel.: 062/ 618 383

v.bondjolova@ts.uni-vt.bg

balgaristichni_prouchvania@ts.uni-vt.bg

University Publishing House "St. St. Cyril and Methodius"

2 Teodosii Tarnovski St., 5003 Veliko Tarnovo

(Tel. 062 618 295)