Albena Bakratcheva

Albena Bakratcheva ( _bg. Албена Бакрачева) (born 3 July 1961) is a Bulgarian
Americanist [ [http://thoreau.eserver.org/naming.html The Thoreau Reader] ] [ [http://www.erunsmagazine.com/?rq=page&artid=57 eRUNSMAGAZINE.COM, Issue 62, October, 2007] ] , best known for her work on American Transcendentalism [ [http://www.thoreausociety.org/_activities_past_ags07.htm The Thoreau Society Annual Gathering 2007] ] [ [http://mediatimesreview.com/april05/AmericanTranscendentalism.php Media Times Review, Issue April 2005] ] .
Albena Bakratcheva, D.Litt., is Associate Professor of American Studies at the [http://www.nbu.bg/index.php?l=437&lang=1 Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures] , New Bulgarian University, Sofia.

Biography

Degrees

Albena Bakratcheva received her master's degree in Bulgarian Literature and English Studies from the St Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia in 1984. She defended her PhD thesis on Eighteenth-Century British Novel and Late Nineteenth-Century Bulgarian Fiction in 1995, and in 2007 was awarded a higher doctorate (D.Litt.) for her dissertation on The Artistic Discourse of American Transcendentalism.

Academic career

Albena Bakratcheva has taught on the Department of English, [http://www.aubg.bg/ American University in Bulgaria (AUBG)] , Blagoevgrad (1995-1996), on the [http://www.uni-sofia.bg/faculties/slavstud/index.html Faculty of Slavic Studies] at the [http://www.slav.uni-sofia.bg/Departments/theoryEngl.htm Department of Theory of Literature] , University of Sofia (1995-1996), on the [http://www.swu.bg/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=49 Faculty of Philology] at the Department of Foreign Languages, [http://www.swu.bg/en/ South-West University "Neofit Rilski"] , Blagoevgrad (1997-2002), and at the [http://www.nbu.bg/index.php?l=437&lang=1 Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures] , New Bulgarian University, Sofia (2002-current).
Albena Bakratcheva specialized in John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies. Freie Universitat Berlin (1992), the State University of New York Geneseo (1993-94) as a Fulbright fellow, and in the 1999 Summer Institute on Contemporary American Literature. University of Louisville, Kentucky.

Administrative career

Since 2002, Albena Bakratcheva is Chair of the American and British Studies Program, [http://www.nbu.bg/index.php?l=437&lang=1 Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures] , New Bulgarian University [ [http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/mab/mab05-short-en.rtf M.A. Program American and British Studies. Comparative Approaches] ] [ [http://www.inst.at/bio/bakratcheva_albena.htm INST: Research Institute for Austrian and International Literature and Cultural Studies] ] .

Bibliography

In English

* Bakratcheva, A. (2001). 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.
* Bakratcheva, A. (2002). "The Sun Is but a Morning Star." Online Anthology of American Literature: Volumes I-VI [ [http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/american/authors.htm "The Sun Is but a Morning Star." Online Anthology of American Literature: Volumes I-VI] ]
* Bakratcheva, A. (2003). "A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever." Online Anthology of British Literature: Volumes I-VI [ [http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/british/authors.htm "A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever." Online Anthology of British Literature: Volumes I-VI] ]
* Bakratcheva, A. (2003). Interculturality in the Garden: Americanization and Otherness - In: "eRUNSMAGAZINE.COM", Issue 6, February.
* Bakratcheva, A. (2003). 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, 2002". Sofia: Bulgarian-American Commission for Educational Exchange.
* Bakratcheva, A. (2003). 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.
* Bakratcheva, A. (2003). 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". Sofia: New Bulgarian University Press.
* Bakratcheva, A. (2004). Frontier Transcendences: The Need for Local Memories - In: "America in the 21st-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). Sofia: Bulgarian-American Commission for Educational Exchange.
* Bakratcheva, A. (2005). 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.
* Bakratcheva, A. (2005). 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. Amsterdam-New York, NY: Rodopi. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ts35bX0aq3oC&pg=RA1-PA627&dq=%22Bakratcheva%22&lr=&hl=en&sig=bE-orCKKEl1J6enxwClR8Bk5vA0#PRA1-PA627,M1 How Far is America from Here?: Google Book Search] ]
* Bakratcheva, A. (2005). 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: New Bulgarian University Press.
* Bakratcheva, A. (2005). "The Sun Is but a Morning Star." Anthology of American Literature: Volume I. Sofia: New Bulgarian University Press. [ [http://www.pe-bg.com/?cid=9&pid=14683 "The Sun Is but a Morning Star." Anthology of American Literature: Volume I Книжарница Пингвините] ]
* Bakratcheva, A. (2006). Metamorphoses of the Frontier: Realities and Haunting Ghosts of Americanization - In: "eRUNSMAGAZINE.COM", Issue 42, February.
* Bakratcheva, A. (2006). Revelations of the Place: Transatlantic Romantic Globalizations - In: "Spaces, Gaps, Borders. Proceedings of the 8th 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.
* Bakratcheva, A. (2006). Resounding New England Culture Today: Poetic Voices and Visions - In: "Culture, Education and Leadership Today and Tomorrow. Proceedings of the 7th International Fulbright Conference, Sofia, May 12-13, 2006" (Issued on CD). Sofia: Bulgarian-American Commission for Educational Exchange.
* Bakratcheva, A. (2007). Thoreau's Way from Emerson to Thoreau: The Gesture of Self-Naming - In: "The Thoreau Reader", EServer Web Publishing Project, at Iowa State University. Ed. by Richard Lenat. Iowa: Ames.

In Bulgarian

* Bakratcheva, A. (1987). The Limits and Possibilities of the Literary Theory (1986) ("Граници и възможности на литературознанието" (1986)) - In: "ABV, Sofia, 1, 6.1".
* Bakratcheva, A. (1988). Need or Possibility? (Потребност или възможност) - On the book series of 1986/87 "Writer and Society" - In: "Septemvri, Sofia, 6".
* Bakratcheva, A. (1989). The Saga of Arthur and His Knights (Сказание за Артур и неговите рицари") - On the epic "Le Morte d'Arthur" by Sir Thomas Malory, Bulgarian translation (1989) - In: "Puls, Sofia, 6, 6.2".
* Bakratcheva, A. (1990). Not To Be Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Без страх от Вирджиния Улф) - On the Bulgarian translation (1989) of "Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf - In: "Panorama, Sofia, 3".
* Bakratcheva, A. (1990). Politics as Novel and Novel as Politics (Политиката като роман и романът като политика) - On the Bulgarian translation (1989) of Norman Mailer's "Armies of the Night" - In: "Panorama, Sofia, 6",
* Bakratcheva, A. (1992). Similarities in Divergences. Narrative Parallels in the Works of Oliver Goldsmith and Mihalaki Georgiev (Близост в отличията. Особености на повествованието у Михалаки Георгиев и Оливър Голдсмит) - In: "Ezik i Literatura, Sofia, 2".
* Bakratcheva, A. (1993). Life as Vocation. Preface. (Животът като призвание, предговор) - In: "H. D. Thoreau, Walden. Civil Disobedience". Sofia: Narodna Kultura.
* Bakratcheva, A. (1993). 'Thus the Novel Beginneth...' Narrative Features in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel and Late Nineteenth-Century Bulgarian Fiction ('Тъй се почнуват романите...' Особености на реалистичното повествование в английския просвещенски роман и българската следосвобожденска белетристика) - In: "Literaturna Misal, Sofia, 1"
* Bakratcheva, A. (1995). "Similarities in Divergences. Realistic Narrative Characteristics in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel and Late Nineteenth-Century Bulgarian Fiction" (Близост в различията. Особености на реалистичното повествование в английския просвещенски роман и българската следосвобожденска белетристика). Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski University Press.
* Bakratcheva, A. (1995). Visibility Beyond the Visible. American Literary Transcendentalism (Видимост отвъд видимото: Американският трансцендентализъм) - In: "Ezik i Literatura, Sofia, 3".
* Bakratcheva, A. (1996). The Psychological Mystery of Crime: Patricia Highsmith (Психологическата мъглявина на престъплението: Патриша Хайсмит) - In: "Vek 21, Sofia, 22, 13-20.10".
* Bakratcheva, A. (1997). "Potentialities of Discourse. Bulgarian/British-American Cross-cultural Dialogues" (Заложби на отвореността). Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski University Press. [ [http://www.amazon.com/dp/9540711177 Zalozhbi na otvorenostta, Amazon.com] ]
* Bakratcheva, A. (1997). Amidst the Eternal Cycle: Gloria Naylor (Сред вечния кръговрат: Глория Нейлър) - In: "Vek 21, Sofia, 1, 17-23.1".
* Bakratcheva, A. (1997). The Unity of the Whole: Joyce Carol Oates (Единството на цялото: Джойс Каръл Оутс) - In: "Vek 21, Sofia, 5, 14-20.2".
* Bakratcheva, A. (1997). The Dark Side of the Ego: Margaret Drabble (Тъмната страна на собственото Аз: Маргарет Драбъл) - In: "Vek 21, Sofia, 12, 2-8.5".
* Bakratcheva, A. (1997). Thoreau in Bulgaria (Торо в България) - In: "Demokraticheski pregled, Sofia, 32, Summer".
* Bakratcheva, A. (1999). Late 19th-Century Bulgarian Fiction in the Light of the European Novelistic Tradition (Българската следосвобожденска белетристика в светлината на европейската романова традиция) - In: "Balgarskata myara v literaturata". Sofia: Balgarski pisatel, 3.
* Bakratcheva, A. (2000). Unitarianism in the Spiritual Tradition of American Transcendentalism (Унитариатството в духовната традиция на американския трансцендентализъм) - In: "Filosofia, Sofia, 1".
* Bakratcheva, A. (2001). "Life Without Principle. Selected Works of Henry David Thoreau" (Живот без принцип. Избрани произведения от Хенри Дейвид Торо). Sofia: LIK Publishing House.
* Bakratcheva, A. (2001). Visibility Beyond the Visible. Preface. (Видимост отвъд видимото, предговор) - In: "Life Without Principle. Selected Works of Henry David Thoreau". Sofia: LIK Publishing House.
* Bakratcheva, A. (2001). American Transcendentalism (Американският трансцендентализъм) - In: "Kant and the Kantian Tradition in Bulgaria. Volume in Honor of the 100th Anniversary of Prof. Tzeko Torbov". Sofia: LIK Publishing House.
* Bakratcheva, A. (2001). Inspiration in the Aesthetical Vision of the American Transcendentalists (Вдъхновението във философско-естетическата система на американските трансценденталисти) - In: "Filosofia, Sofia, 1".
* Bakratcheva, A. (2001). The Foundations of American Transcendentalism: Puritanism and 18th-Century Rationalism (Първоосновите на американския трансцендентализъм - пуританство и просвещенски рационализъм) - In: "Filosofski forum, Sofia, III, Vol. 9, No. 1".
* Bakratcheva, A. (2003). Transcendentalism and Romanticism: Transatlantic Parallels (Трансцендентализъм и Романтизъм: трансатлантически ракурси) - In: "Sledva, Sofia, Issue 6, August".
* Bakratcheva, A. (2004). Transatlantic Metamorphoses of Postkantianism: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Трансатлантическите преображения на посткантианската мисъл: Ралф Уолдо Емерсън) - In: "Kant and the Dialogue of Traditions. Volume Dedicated to the 280th Anniversary of Immanuel Kant's Birth and the 200th Anniversary of his Death". Blagoevgrad: Neofit Rilski University Press.
* Bakratcheva, A. (2004). American Transcendentalism (Американският трансцендентализъм) - In: "Media Times Review, Issue April".
* Bakratcheva, A. (2004). The Transatlantic Identity of the Transcendentalist (Трансатлантическата идентичност на трансценденталиста) - In: "Literaturen vestnik, Sofia, 15, 14-20.4".
* Bakratcheva, A. (2004). The Poet-Priest: the Aesthetic Model for the American Transcendentalists (Поетът-проповедник: естетическият модел на американските трансценденталисти) - In: "Ezik i Literatura, Sofia, 1-2".
* Bakratcheva, A. (2004). American Transcendentalism: Artistic/Religious Practice and Way of Life (Американският трансцендентализъм - художествено-религиозна практика и начин на живот) - In: "Filosofia, Sofia, 2".
* Bakratcheva, A. (2004). The American 'Defense of Poetry' - Apotheosis of the American Poet (Американската 'Защита на поезията' - апотеоз на американския поет) - In: "Foreign Language Teaching, Sofia, 4".
* Bakratcheva, A. (2005). Traditions and Individual Talent: Emerson and Thoreau (Традиции и индивидуален талант: Емерсън и Торо) - In: "Ezik i Literatura, Sofia, 1-2".
* Bakratcheva, A. (2005). Mentorship as Vocation: Thoreau through the Eyes of Emerson (Менторството като призвание: Торо през погледа на Емерсън) - In: "Filosofia, Sofia, 4".
* Bakratcheva, A. (2006). The Ecopoetic Thoreau (Екопоетичният Торо) - In: "Ezik i Literatura, Sofia, 1-2".
* Bakratcheva, A. (2006). 'Walden': Thoreau's Artistic Harmony ('Уолдън': Художествената хармония на Хенри Дейвид Торо) - In: "Sledva, Sofia, Issue 14, May".
* Bakratcheva, A. (2006). In the Harmony of a Sanctuary Preserved: Walden, Thoreau and 'Walden' (Сред хармониите на опазената святост: Уолдън, Торо и 'Уолдън') - In: "Filosofia, Sofia, 4".
* Bakratcheva, A. (2007). Thoreau's 'Homeric Experiment' ('Омировският експеримент' на Хенри Дейвид Торо) - 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.
* Bakratcheva, A. (2007). The Glamorous Burst of American Critical Thought: Margaret Fuller (Яркото зарево на американската критическа мисъл: Маргарет Фулър) - In: "Ezik i Literatura, Sofia, 3-4".
* Bakratcheva, A. (2007). "Visibility Beyond the Visible. The Artistic Discourse of American Transcendentalism" (Видимост отвъд видимото. Художественият дискурс на американския трансцендентализъм). Sofia: New Bulgarian University Press.

Editorials and Translations

* Patricia Highsmith: "Deep Water". Novel. 1988
* Wole Soyinka: "Nobel Lecture 1986"; "The Lion and the Jewel", "The Swamp Dwellers", "Death and the King's Horseman". Plays. - In: Wole Soyinka: "Eternal Cycle". 1989
* Henry David Thoreau: "Walden". "Civil Disobedience". 1993
* "The Unifying Aspects of Cultures. Frontier Metamorphoses: Americanization and Otherness" - In: Trans Internet-Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften 15.Nr, Mai 2004. Research Institute for Austrian and International Literature and Cultural Studies (INST) Vienna, Austria.

Citations

* Albena Bakratcheva - "Bulgarian Literature: Crossroad and Crucifix", Publisher LiterNet, 30.11.2002 - In: "THE BULGARIAN-TURKISH INTERETHNIC PROBLEMS IN MODERN BULGARIA AND ITS EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM", By Orlina Boteva, A Thesis for the Degree of Master of Arts, The Graduate School, The University of Maine, May, 2004 [ [http://66.102.1.104/scholar?num=100&hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&q=cache:ee7QrXYMlwIJ:www2.univ-reunion.fr/~duban/Master2/EU_et_le_monde_evlm/euetlemonde_files/leseuetlemonde_1.doc+%22Bakratcheva%22 A Thesis for the Degree of Master of Arts, The Graduate School, The University of Maine, May, 2004] ]
* Albena Bakratcheva - "Interculturality in the Garden: Americanization and Otherness", Publisher LiterNet, 25.12.2002 - In: "M2 - Les USA et le monde : perspectives environnementalistes" [ [http://66.102.1.104/scholar?num=100&hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&q=cache:ee7QrXYMlwIJ:www2.univ-reunion.fr/~duban/Master2/EU_et_le_monde_evlm/euetlemonde_files/leseuetlemonde_1.doc+%22Bakratcheva%22 Les USA et le monde : perspectives environnementalistes] ]
* Албена Бакрачева - "Американският трансцендентализъм", Издателство LiterNet, 15.07.2000 - В: "А. А. Градинарова, БОЛГАРСКИЙ СУБЪЕКТНЫЙ ИМПЕРСОНАЛ И ЕГО РУССКИЕ ФУНКЦИОНАЛЬНЫЕ СООТВЕТСТВИЯ (ACTA LINGUISTICA)" [ [http://journals.slavica.org/index.php/als/article/download/101/89/101-309-1-PB.pdf БОЛГАРСКИЙ СУБЪЕКТНЫЙ ИМПЕРСОНАЛ И ЕГО РУССКИЕ ФУНКЦИОНАЛЬНЫЕ СООТВЕТСТВИЯ] ]

External links

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