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Mother tongue(s)BulgarianOther language(s)Self-assessment Understanding Speaking W r i t i n gEuropean level (*) Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken productionEnglish C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient userRussian B2 Independent user C1 Proficient user B2 Independent user B2 Independent user B2 Independent user(*) Common European Framework of Reference (CEF) levelAdditional information• Research projects – focusing on the social and historical influences on literary processes inconnection with the reception of foreign literary figures or phenomena, and the construction of theirBulgarian images:2010-2012: on the team working on The Reception of Ancient Greek Drama in Bulgaria.2009-2010: on the team working on The Reception of Oedipus Rex in Bulgaria.2005-2008: on the team working on The Reception of Shelley in Europe with a contribution on thereception of Shelley in Bulgaria.2001 – 2005: on the team working on The Reception of Byron in Europe with a contribution on theimages of Byron in Bulgaria.• Grants and Fellowships:2012 – Chawton House Library Fellowship2005 – Professional development grant by the Academic Fellowship Program of the Open SocietyInstitute.2004 – Teaching fellowship by the Academic Fellowship Program of the Open Society Institute.2001 – Fellowship for full-time studies in the Romanticism and Forms of Modernity MPhil programmeat the University of Glasgow.• Presentations at international conferences: The International Byron Conferences in Missolonghi (2009), St Andrews (2008), Venice (2007), Paris(2006), Dublin (2005), Moncton (2004), Liverpool (2003), Kyoto (2002), and New York (2001). August 2010, Torino (Italy), ESSE-10: “The Author as Hero: the Case of Byron”. August 2006, London (UK), ESSE-8: “Otherness Caught Up Between the Orient and the Occident”. July 2005, Oxford (UK), THE ARTIST UNDER CONSTRUCTION: FROM SELF TO SHELF:“Biographers as Mediators Between Self and Shelf”. April 2005, Belfast (UK), BETWIXT AND BETWEEN: PLACE AND CULTURAL TRANSLATION:“Manfred in Bulgarian Contexts”. June 2004, Aberystwyth (UK), ROMANTICISM, HISTORY, HISTORICISM: “History and SubjectiveTime in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto IV”. October 2001, Grimma (Germany), 9th International Symposium of the Society for EnglishRomanticism ALTERNATIVE ROMANTICISMS: EXPLORING ROMANTIC LOCATIONS ANDGENRES: “Bulgarian Appropriations of the Romantic”.• Memberships: Academic Circle of Comparative Literature, since 2011; British Association forRomantic Studies, since 2006; International Byron Society, since 2001; Bulgarian Society for BritishStudies – the Bulgarian national association which is a member of ESSE, since 2000; The Union ofScholars in Bulgaria, since 1999.• Major publications: “Meaningful Absences: Byron in Bulgaria”. Contexts, Subtexts, and Pretexts: Literary Translation inEastern Europe. Ed. Brian James Baer. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2011, pp.219-232.Page 2 / 3 - Curriculum vitae ofVITANA KOSTADINOVAFor more information on Europass go to http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu© European Union, 2002-2010 24082010

Byron in Bulgarian Context: Footprints on the Sands of Time. Plovdiv: Pygmalion, 2009. [amonograph in Bulgarian] Co-editor of Byron and the Isles of Imagination: A Romantic Chart. Plovdiv: Context, 2009. [acollection of essays] “The East as an Island and Inspiration”. In Byron and the Isles of Imagination, eds. Alistair Heys andVitana Kostadinova. Plovdiv: Context Press, 2009, pp. 176-202. “Myth and Ideology: British Romanticism in Comparative Literature textbooks”. English Studies OnThis Side: Post-2007 Reckonings. Eds. Suman Gupta and Milena Katsarska. Plovdiv: PlovdivUniversity Press, 2009, pp. 283-296. “Shelley’s Heart of Hearts in Bulgaria”. In The Reception of Shelley in Europe, eds. Susanne Schmidand Michael Rossington, 2008, pp. 247-257. “Byron’s Manfred in Bulgarian Context.” In Literaturna missal, 2008, no 1, pp. 161-185. [in Bulgarian] “Byronic Ambivalence in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage IV”. In: The Byron Journal, vol. 35, no 1, 2007,pp. 11-18. “The Rise of the Sublime and the Fall of History.” Selected Proceedings of the 30th InternationalByron Conference “Byron and the Romantic Sublime”. In Revue de l’Université de Moncton, Moncton:University of Moncton Press, 2005, 189-202. “Images of Byron in Bulgaria”. In: Cardwell, Richard (ed.) The Reception of Byron in Europe, vol. II:Northern, Central and Eastern Europe, London and New York: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004, pp.353-364. “Romantic attitudes Towards Evil in Anticipation of Moral relativism.“ In Dialogues: American Studiesin an International Context, Conference proceedings, Plovdiv, 2002, pp. 193-198. “Byron in Bulgaria: The Unrecognised Legacy of Byron’s Name in Literary Criticism.” In: SocieteFrancaise des etudes Byroniennes. Bulletin de liaison, vol viii, No 3, automne 2002, pp. 113-123. “Images of America, or the American Presence in the Bulgarian Revival Period.” In: Danova M. (ed.)Essays in American Studies: Cross - Cultural Perspectives, Polis Publishers, Sofia, 2001, pp. 13-30.Sept. 2012Page 3 / 3 - Curriculum vitae ofVITANA KOSTADINOVAFor more information on Europass go to http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu© European Union, 2002-2010 24082010