Publications
Book Projects
Kotzeva, Elitza, and Koppy, Kate, editors. Teaching Writing in English at the Decolonial Turn in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Under contract with The WAC Clearinghouse and The University Press of Colorado, forthcoming in 2027.
Kotzeva, Elitza, and Shahnazaryan, Nona, editors. Women in Conflict, War, and Revolution in Post-Soviet Space, forthcoming in 2027.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Kotzeva, Elitza. “From Admiring Death Masks to Spray-Painting Communist Monuments, or Citizens Revisiting Collective Memory.” Historical Geography, vol. 52, 2024, pp. 105–135. doi:10.1353/hgo.2024.a990105.
Kotzeva, Elitza. “’Thou Shalt Not Kill,’ or Affect and Ethics in a Spectacle of Distant Suffering: 2020 Nagorno Karabakh War Documentaries.” Eastern European Screen Studies, vol. 16, no. 2, 2025, pp. 1-19. doi.org/10.1080/2040350X.2024.2446050
Kotzeva, Elitza. “Face-Shaping Power of the Postfeminist Gaze, or Digital Rhetorical Lateral Surveillance in Armenia.” Cluster Conversation: Talking Back Through Rhetorical Surveillance Studies: Intersectional Feminist and Queer Approaches. Peitho. vol. 27, no. 1, Fall 2024. doi: 10.37514/PEI-J.2024.27.1.09
Kotzeva, Elitza, and Brent Anders. “Engineering a Dialogue With Klara, or Ethical Invention With Generative AI in the Writing Classroom”. Journal of Academic Writing, vol. 13, no. 2, Dec. 2023, pp. 73-80. doi:10.18552/joaw.v13i2.989.
Kotzeva, Elitza, and Nairy Bzdigian, Sona Gevorgyan, and Lilit Khachatryan. “Rhetorical Resilience and Righteous Discontent in Eurasia: Female Students Leading the Way.” Cluster Conversation: Addressing the Barriers between Us and that Future: Feminist Activist Coalition Building in Writing Studies. Peitho. vol. 26, no. 1. Fall 2023.
Kotzeva, Elitza. "Counter-Mapping for Resistance and Cultivation of Counter-Memory: The Social Life of Some Nagorno Karabakh Maps." Material Culture Review, vol. 94, no. 2, 2023, Special Issue: Social Lives of Maps. doi.org/10.7202/1102339ar.
Kotzeva, Elitza. “Traveling Back with Time: On the Rhetorical Significance of Dureé.” Intraspection: a Journal of Rhetoric, Culture, and Style, vol. 5, 2022.
Book Chapters
Kotzeva, Elitza. “Cross-Stones.” Writing Artifacts, edited by edited by Cydney Alexis and Hannah J. Rule, pp. 61-69, Routledge, 2026.
Kotzeva, Elitza. "Queering Bulgarian Pop-Folk: Hybridity, Gaga Feminism, and Defamiliarization in Chalga." The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans, edited by Catherine Baker, 1st ed., Routledge, 2024. doi: 10.4324/9781003328162-33
Kotzeva, Elitza. “#WeWillWin When We Become Good Citizens, or Hegemonic Masculinity in Armenian War Rhetoric.” Masculinities in the South Caucasus: Forms, Hierarchies and Challenges, edited by Davit Gabunia et al. Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, 2024.
Kotzeva, Elitza. "Down the Rabbit Hole." Our Body of Work: Embodied Teaching and Administration in Writing Studies, edited by Anna Sciari and Melissa Nicolas, University of Colorado Press, 2022. doi:org/10.7330/9781646422340.c005.1
Other Publications
Kotzeva, Elitza, and Garabet Kazanjian, and Lilit Khachatryan. “From Sacred to Sacrilegious: Armenian Human-Water Relations.” In Media Res, special issue: Media Seascape and the Criminal Imaginary, Nov. 2021.
Literary Translations
Poetry by poets of the Bulgarian circle New Social Poetry. Apofenie. Volume 7: Justice. June 2019.
Excerpt from Invisibleby Nataliya Deleva. Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation. Fall 2018 Issue. The University of Iowa.
Concerto for Sentence by Emiliya Dvoryanova. Urbana-Champaign: Dalkey Archive Press, 2016. (Bulgarian to English)
“From Concerto for Sentence by Emiliya Dvoryanova, translated by Elitza Kotzeva.” The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 33 (1): 46-51. Dalkey Archive Press, 2013.
Born under a Lucky Star by Ilona Lacková. Centre de Recherches Tsiganes, Université “René Descartes”, Paris, France. Sofia: Litavra Publishing, 2000. (Czech to Bulgarian)
Work in Progress
“Stuck Between Traditional, Soviet, and post-Soviet Rhetoric: Armenian Left-behind Rural Women Negotiating Gender Roles.” Work in progress.