Comparisons and Interactions Within/Across Cultures

Editors:

Ludmilla Kostova is Professor of British literature and cultural studies at the University of Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria. She has published on eighteenth-century, romantic and modern British literature and as well as on travel writing and representations of intercultural encounters. Her book Tales of the Periphery: the Balkans in Nineteenth-Century British Writing (St. Cyril and St. Methodius University Press, 1997) has been frequently cited by specialists in the field. Kostova’s recent publications include “Getting to Know the Big Bad West? Images of Western Europe in Bulgarian Travel Writing of the Communist Era (1945 – 1985),” Balkan Departures. Travel Writing from South Eastern Europe (Berghahn Books, 2009), “Victimization and Its Cures: Representations of South Eastern Europe in British Fiction and Drama of the 1990s,” Betraying the Event: Constructions of Victimhood in Contemporary Cultures (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), “Claiming a ‘Great Briton’ for Bulgaria: Reflections on Byron’s Bulgarian Reception (1880s-1920s),” Byron: Heritage and Legacy (Palgrave, 2008), and “Degeneration, Regeneration and the Moral Parameters of Greekness in Thomas Hope’s Anastastasius, Or Memoirs of a Greek,” Comparative Critical Studies (4. 2/ 2007).  She is a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Multicultural Discourses, the Internet journal TRANS, Word and Text. A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics and The Annals of Ovidius University Constanta – Philology.

Iona Sarieva works at the University of Sofia, Bulgaria, and Capella University, USA, as an instructor and course developer for distance learning environments. Her research interests are in the areas of intercultural communication, technology enhanced learning and distance education.

Mihaela Irimia is Professor of English at the University of Bucharest, Romania. She is Director of Studies of the British Cultural Studies Centre (BCSC), Director of the Centre of Excellence for the Study of Cultural Identity and member of the Doctoral School of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Irimia has published widely on eighteenth-century and romantic literature and culture, the reception of British authors in Romania and cultural theory.