Education

PhD in English: Rhetoric and Composition (2019)
Department of English, Washington State University
Dissertation: Rhetorical Alterations: Critical Cultural Performance
Committee: Dr. Victor Villanueva (Chair), Dr. Carol Siegel, Dr. Ashley Boyd

Certificate in Applied Literary Translation (2015)
Center for Translation Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Book Translation Project: Concerto for Sentence by Emiliya Dvoryanova

MA in English (Literary Concentration) (2012)
Department of English, Appalachian State University
Thesis: From Theory to Practice in the Translation of Emiliya Dvoryanova’s Concerto for Sentence

MA in Local Development (2004)
University of Trento and University of Bolzano, Italy
Thesis: Improving the Portrayal of Ethnic Minorities in Bulgarian Broadcasting

MA in Slavic Studies: Czech, Slovak, and Bulgarian (2002)
Department of Slavic Languages, Sofia University, Bulgaria
Thesis: Constructing Identity through the Process of Nicknaming among the Romany Ethnic Community in the Czech Republic

Diploma, Italian Language (2001)
Italian Cultural Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria