Old Bulgarian Literature in the Context of Byzantine and Мedieval Slavic Literature

Old Bulgarian Literature in the Context of Byzantine and Мedieval Slavic Literature

Project Status: ongoing

Research team:  Prof. Anisava Miltenova, Prof. Ana Stoykova, Prof. Dorotey Getov, Assoc. Prof. Maya Petrova-Taneva, Assoc. Prof. Nina Gagova, Assoc. Prof. Radoslava Stankova, Senior Asst. Prof. Irina Kuzidova-Karadzhinova, Senior. Asst. Prof. Dilyana Radoslavova, Senior Asst. Prof. Ekaterina Todorova, Senior Asst. Prof. Elisaveta Nencheva, Senior Asst. Prof. Amber Ivanov

External Participants: Prof. Marina Čistiakova from the Centre for the Study of Written Heritage at the Institute of the Lithuanian Language (Vilnius, Lithuania); Senior Asst. Prof. Ivan P. Petrov from the Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Vienna (Austria).

The project brings together the individual research of scholars from the Department for Old Bulgarian Literature and external participants with the aim of providing a multifaceted presentation of the connections and interactions between Old Bulgarian literature and other medieval literatures and cultures.

The project includes the annual Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Old Bulgarian Literature and Culture in Memory of Prof. Petar Dinekov and a regular seminar series that provides a forum for section members to present their research and for visiting international scholars to deliver invited lectures.