https://elitzakotzeva.com Elitza Kotzeva Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:36:18 +0000 https://elitzakotzeva.com en http://elitzakotzeva.com/Second-Home-Page Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:36:18 +0000 Elitza Kotzeva 460051 <img width="737" height="1112" width_o="737" height_o="1112" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/08ee047f169807f9f4d11505f32df89d003646c7e053313794b7f434fc5de42f/Picture-Elitza-Website.jpg" data-mid="1443164" border="0" /> Elitza Kotzeva, PhD I am an Associate Professor of English at the American University of Armenia and an interdisciplinary scholar of post-Soviet Eurasia. My research examines language, education, public discourse, and knowledge production in Armenia and the broader region. Drawing on rhetoric, Slavic studies, translation, and regional development, I study how institutions and public narratives shape intellectual authority, political identity, and access to opportunity. My current research investigates the changing roles of Armenian, Russian, and English in education and knowledge production in post-Soviet Armenia. I am particularly interested in how language policy reflects geopolitical change, how English-medium education expands and distributes opportunity, and how societies negotiate Russian and Western systems of institutional and epistemic authority. My other work examines public memory, nationalism, conflict, gender, digital media, and the politics of cultural representation across Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus. I am also an editor and literary translator committed to making locally grounded scholarship and cultural work available to wider publics. Home | Research | Publications | Current Projects | Teaching | Editorial &amp; Public Work | About &nbsp;ORCID: 0000-0002-7188-6270 Email: elitza.kotzeva@aua.am Elitza Kotzeva, PhD I am an Associate Professor of English at the American University of Armenia and an interdisciplinary scholar of post-Soviet Eurasia. My... http://elitzakotzeva.com/About Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:51:24 +0000 Elitza Kotzeva 460050  About I am an Associate Professor of English at the American University of Armenia. My academic background spans rhetoric and composition, Slavic studies, local development, and literary translation, and my professional experience includes teaching, editorial work, international education, and writing-program development in the United States and Armenia. I hold a PhD in English from Washington State University, an MA in English from Appalachian State University, an MA in Local Development from the Universities of Trento and Bolzano, an MA in Slavic Studies from Sofia University, and a Graduate Certificate in Applied Literary Translation from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I work across English, Bulgarian, Italian, Czech, and Russian, with additional knowledge of several South Slavic languages.Affiliation: American University of Armenia Email: elitza.kotzeva@aua.amORCID: 0000-0002-7188-6270Home | Research | Publications | Current Projects | Teaching | Editorial &amp; Public Work | About  About I am an Associate Professor of English at the American University of Armenia. My academic background spans rhetoric and composition, Slavic studies,... http://elitzakotzeva.com/Editorial-and-Public-Work Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:36:41 +0000 Elitza Kotzeva 460049  Editorial &amp; Public Work&nbsp; Editorial Work&nbsp; My editorial work focuses on multilingual and regionally grounded scholarship in writing studies, translation, gender studies, and post-Soviet Eurasia. I work with authors across languages, disciplines, and national contexts to develop book projects, strengthen individual chapters, synthesize peer-review feedback, and make specialized research accessible to broader academic and public audiences. &nbsp;o &nbsp; International Exchanges on the Study of Writing, WAC Clearinghouse Book Series I serve as Associate Editor for International Exchanges on the Study of Writing, an open-access book series published by the WAC Clearinghouse. In this role, I work with authors and volume editors on project development, manuscript review, developmental editing, and responses to external reviewers.&nbsp; o &nbsp; Edited Collections I am co-editor of two forthcoming interdisciplinary collections: Teaching Writing in English at the Decolonial Turn in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, with Kate Koppy, and Women in Conflict, War, and Revolution in Post-Soviet Space, with Nona Shahnazaryan. The first examines English-language writing instruction through questions of Soviet educational legacies, linguistic hierarchy, coloniality, and local knowledge; the second explores women’s experiences, representation, and political agency during conflict, war, and revolution across the post-Soviet region.&nbsp;Public and Policy Scholarship My public and policy-oriented writing connects research on rhetoric, education, gender, conflict, and cultural memory with broader regional and civic conversations. I am particularly interested in forms of scholarship that preserve local complexity while making research usable to readers outside a single academic discipline.&nbsp;Literary Translation and Cross-Cultural Editorial Work My translation and cross-cultural editorial work examines how Eastern European literary and scholarly texts move across linguistic and institutional boundaries. I hold a Graduate Certificate in Applied Literary Translation and have translated Bulgarian literary works into English, taught translation theory, and supervised student translation projects. Translation also informs my editorial practice: working across languages requires attention not only to meaning and style but also to the unequal systems through which scholarship and literature become visible to Anglophone readers. &nbsp; Scholarly Community and Professional Service&nbsp; I contribute to scholarly communities through peer review, writing-program development, editorial mentoring, and professional workshops. My service has focused especially on supporting writers, strengthening publication projects, and building institutional cultures around writing and interdisciplinary exchange. Home | Research | Publications | Current Projects | Teaching | Editorial &amp; Public Work | About  Editorial &amp; Public Work&nbsp; Editorial Work&nbsp; My editorial work focuses on multilingual and regionally grounded scholarship in writing studies,... http://elitzakotzeva.com/Current-Projects Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:05:19 +0000 Elitza Kotzeva 460040 &nbsp; Current Projects Language, Education, and Knowledge Politics in Armenia&nbsp; This project examines how Armenian, Russian, and English shape education, knowledge production, and institutional authority in post-Soviet Armenia. It considers how language structures access to scholarship, professional mobility, and international participation, while asking how locally grounded knowledge becomes credible and visible within English-dominated academic and digital systems. Bringing together research on language policy, English-medium education, translingual writing, and public knowledge platforms, the project investigates language not simply as a medium of communication but as an infrastructure through which intellectual authority and geopolitical orientation are negotiated. Seeing Difference:&nbsp; Race and Visual-Material Culture in the Soviet and Post-Soviet World <img width="1600" height="1200" width_o="1600" height_o="1200" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/048a37ffcba90c1e8b6352be41e1ca7b357b49cf593fb6ee874caa187d4a48c0/____18.06.2011.jpg" data-mid="1443090" border="0" /> This project studies how images, monuments, public art, exhibitions, textbooks, and other material forms have participated in producing and organizing social difference in the Soviet and post-Soviet world. I am particularly interested in how visual-material culture made racial, ethnic, national, gendered, and cultural distinctions perceptible, and how these representations shaped political identity, public memory, and understandings of social hierarchy. The project also traces the afterlives of these representational forms after socialism, asking how inherited objects, images, monuments, and sites of cultural heritage are preserved, contested, appropriated, altered, or defamiliarized as societies renegotiate history, memory, and political belonging. Rather than treating visual and material culture simply as representations of ideology, I examine how such forms organize ways of seeing social worlds and make particular relationships among people, histories, and places imaginable. Home | Research | Publications | Current Projects | Teaching | Editorial &amp; Public Work | About &nbsp; Current Projects Language, Education, and Knowledge Politics in Armenia&nbsp; This project examines how Armenian, Russian, and English shape... http://elitzakotzeva.com/Awards Tue, 13 Aug 2024 12:56:05 +0000 Elitza Kotzeva 453966  Grants and Awards&nbsp; I have been working on a research project related to rural women in Armenia over the last two years. To do the fieldwork, I received a grant by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In 2024, I had the honor to receive my institution’s research accomplishment award for publications promoting globally awareness of Armenian social issues and culture within my field.&nbsp; 2024-2025&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;American University of Armenia Research Accomplishment Award 2022-2023 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Calouste Gulbenkian Short-Term Research Grant 2018&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;John W. Ehrstine Fellowship, Washington State University English &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Department 2018 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Avon J. Murphy Scholarship, Washington State University English &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Department 2016&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Susan H. McLeod Writing Across the Curriculum Travel Award,&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Washington State University 2016&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Washington State University English Department Award for &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Outstanding PhD Seminar Paper 2015&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; National Book Centre of Bulgaria, Translation Grant for the &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Publication of Concerto for Sentence 2014&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; NAFSA Bi-Regional Highlight Selection for the 67th National NAFSA &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; conference for the session “Creating, Implementing and &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Assessing&nbsp;Intercultural Certificate Programs,” November 2014, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Portland, OR&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 2008&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Cratis D. Williams Graduate School Graduate Research &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Assistantship, Appalachian State University 2008&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Office of Student Research, GSAS Travel Grant, Appalachian &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; State University 2006 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Faculty Development Grant, College of Charleston&nbsp; &nbsp; 2006 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; William E. Murray International Travel Scholarship for Faculty and &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Students, College of Charleston&nbsp; &nbsp; 2005 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; National Italian American Foundation, Washington, DC, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; funding to establish an Italian Club at the College of Charleston&nbsp; 2004 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Public Affairs Grant, Missouri State University, funding for a &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; public radio program on interculturalism  Grants and Awards&nbsp; I have been working on a research project related to rural women in Armenia over the last two years. To do the fieldwork, I received a... http://elitzakotzeva.com/Publications Tue, 30 Nov 2021 10:12:33 +0000 Elitza Kotzeva 415668  Publications <img width="2000" height="924" width_o="2000" height_o="924" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/04948e710f821b3e9b12fec0646454c7e0679af977063873ed7fd81e4006236b/629179044_10162855487161549_8018655700307034760_n.jpg" data-mid="1444333" border="0" data-scale="53"/> 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 ArticlesKotzeva, Elitza. “From Admiring Death Masks to Spray-Painting Communist Monuments, or Citizens Revisiting Collective Memory.” Historical Geography, vol. 52, 2026, 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.2024.27.1.09Kotzeva, 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 ChaptersKotzeva, Elitza. “Cross-Stones.”&nbsp; Writing Artifacts, edited by Cydney Alexis and Hannah J. Rule, pp. 61-69, Routledge, 2026.&nbsp; 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&nbsp; Rhetoric.”&nbsp; 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) Home | Research | Publications | Current Projects | Teaching | Editorial &amp; Public Work | About  Publications Book Projects Kotzeva, Elitza, and Koppy, Kate, editors. Teaching Writing in English at the Decolonial Turn in Eastern... http://elitzakotzeva.com/Presentations-and-Older-Scholarshi Tue, 30 Nov 2021 10:12:29 +0000 Elitza Kotzeva 415667 Conference Presentations &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; “Building a Transnational WAC Program: The Case of the American University of Armenia.” International Writing Across the Curriculum (IWAC) 2020/2021 Conference: : Celebrating Successes, Recognizing Challenges, Inviting Critique and Innovation, August 2021, Fort Collins, Colorado. “Social Annotations in the Humanities Classroom: The Use of Hypothes.is in Scaffolding Writing Assignments” (co-presented with Tatevik Zargaryan), AMICAL Consortium Community Idea Exchange, June 2021, online. “Performance Studies in the Writing Classroom: Toward Critical Rhetoric.” Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention, January 2021, Toronto, Canada. “The Translator’s Role in Preserving the Original Sound in the Target Language.” Performing Idiomatic Surgery, Implementing Props of Cultural References, and Securing the Platform of Locale. ALTA41:&nbsp; Performance, Props, and Platforms. November 2018, Bloomington, Indiana. “Compressed Spatiotemporal Perceptions in the Digital Age and Their Influence on Our Understanding of History.” International Conference in English Studies: The Politics of Space and the Humanities. December 2017, Thessaloniki, Greece. “Performance for Transformation in Constructing a Writer’s Identity.” Pacific Rim Conference in English Studies 2017: Moving Bodies, Moving Ideologies. April 2017, Anchorage, Alaska. “Czech Dream, West German Spectacle, and the NYC Balkan Village: East European Forms of Culture Jamming in the Post-Communist Years.” PCA/ACA National Conference. March 2016, Seattle, Washington. “East European Forms of Culture Jamming in the Post-Communist Years: A Cultural Studies Approach to Exploring Equity, Immigration, and Identity in Film.” 12th Annual International Globalization, Diversity, and Education Conference, February 2016, Airway Heights, Washington. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Chair. “Creating, Implementing, and Assessing Intercultural Certificate Programs.” Bi-Regional NAFSA Conference, November 2014, Portland, Oregon. “Contrastive Rhetoric Strategies.” ASSU Writing Center Conference, February 2008, Savannah, Georgia. “’You Can’t Go Home Again. Why? Because You Are Home:’ Identity Construction in the Urban Environment of Iva Pekárková’s&nbsp; Gimme the Money.” Western Social Science Association Annual Conference, April 2008, Denver, Colorado.Writing Workshops and Invited Presentations WSU Professional Development Initiative: Writer’s Block and Writing Strategies, 2019 WSU Professional Development Initiative: Writing Lock-Ins for Graduate Writers, 2019 WSU WAC Presentations on Plagiarism and Paraphrasing, 2018-2019 Workshop on Paragraphs for ESL Writers, WSU Latin American and Iberian Graduate Student Organization, 2018 WSU Professional Development Initiative: Critical Reading Strategies, 2018 WSU Professional Development Initiative: How to Set Your Writing Goals, 2018 WSU Professional Development Initiative: On Methods and Results, 2018 WSU Professional Development Initiative: On Discussion and Conclusion, 2018 WSU Professional Development Initiative: How to Write a Good Abstract, 2017 WSU Professional Development Initiative: How to Write a Good Introduction, 2017 WSU Food Engineering Graduate Club Presentation: On Abstracts, 2016 &nbsp; &nbsp; Older Scholarship “Czech Short Fiction.” Critical Survey of Short Fiction. 4th ed. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2012. “Everything Is Illuminated.” Masterplots. 3rd ed. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2010. “In a Free State.” Masterplots. 3rd ed. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2010. “Identification Assimilation.” Encyclopedia of American Immigration. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2010. “Television and Radio Broadcasting for Immigrant Communities.” Encyclopedia of American Immigration. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2010. “Turkish Immigrants.” Encyclopedia of American Immigration. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2010. Conference Presentations &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ... http://elitzakotzeva.com/Service Mon, 29 Nov 2021 11:29:32 +0000 Elitza Kotzeva 415617 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Service Service has always been an integral part of my work at every university where I have taught. Whenever possible, I connect the content of my classes to real issues in the local community. For example, my students have completed projects that expose rhetorical fallacies in speeches by local politicians or have developed proposals and designed materials for educational supplements used in regional Armenian schools. Over the past four years, I have collaborated on research projects with both students and faculty to strengthen the university’s ties to the wider community. I also serve on the board of AUA’s AGBU Papazian Library and advise two student organizations—TEDxAUA and The World of Culture club. In addition, I am an associate editor for the International Exchanges on the Study of Writing book series at the WAC Clearinghouse.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 2024&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Assistant editor for the 2023 issue of&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and&nbsp;Composition&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 2021-now&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;AUA TEDxAUA Club Advisor&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;2022-2024&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;AUA Shakespeare Fall Fest &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 2021-2022 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Work on Student Multimodal Composition Assessment &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 2019-2022&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;AUA Academic Standards Committee Member &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 2020-2021&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Developed and implemented a Common Read &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Program at AUA&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2020-2021 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; AUA IRB Board Member &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2020-2021 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; AUA Library Advisory Committee Member &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2020-2021 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; AUA Student Book Club Advisor&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2019-2021 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; AUA WAC Initiative Workshop Series&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 2017-2019&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;WSU Professional Development Initiative Writer &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Workshop Series  &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Service Service has always been an integral part of my work at every university where I have taught.... http://elitzakotzeva.com/Political-Communication Mon, 24 Jun 2019 15:46:38 +0000 Elitza Kotzeva 328763 &nbsp; 1 2 3 4 Homework Day 1:&nbsp; July 1 Introductions Course description Expectations Requirements &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Class plan and schedule &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Intro to Rhetoric and Political Communication &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Lecture and Activity Brief history of rhetoric and its importance &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Lecture and discussion Readings: Toye, 7-32 Herrick, Overview of Rhetoric Scholarly definitions of rhetoric &nbsp; &nbsp; Day 2: July 2 Discussion of reading Classical rhetoric overview &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Lecture The three kinds of persuasive discourse &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Lecture and Activity The five canons of rhetoric &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Lecture and Activity&nbsp; The three appeals &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Lecture and Activity Readings: Corbett, 22-28 Corbett, 28-31 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Exercise: &nbsp; Day 3:&nbsp; July 3 Quiz on the five canons of rhetoric&nbsp; The three appeals: intro &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Lecture The three appeals &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Lecture The three appeals &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Writing activity Logic and Arguments &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Writing activity Readings: Corbett, 37-38, 80-84 Toye, 36-42 Ethos, Logos, Pathos The Toulmin Model &nbsp; Exercise: Persuasive Techniques &nbsp; Day 4: July 4 Quiz on the three appeals and the Toulmin model &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; How to Compose a Thesis Statement &nbsp; &nbsp; Lecture and Activity Logical Fallacies &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Lecture and Activity Logical Fallacies &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Lecture and Activity Logical Fallacies &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Activity and Homework Readings: Corbett, 32-37; Larsen and Hodge, 14-23 &nbsp; &nbsp; Exercises: Bluedorn and Bluedorn, 28-73, 188-234 Brief Writing &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Assignment &nbsp; Day 5:&nbsp; July 9 Homework submission and review &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Arrangement &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Lecture and Activity Style &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Lecture and Activity Figures of Speech &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Lecture and Activity Readings: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Exercises: &nbsp; Day 6: July 10 Quiz on arrangement, style, and figures of speech Rhetorical devices: Intro &nbsp; Lecture Rhetorical devices of strategy &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Lecture and Activity Rhetorical devices of organization &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Lecture and Activity Rhetorical devices of style &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Lecture and activity Readings: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Exercises: &nbsp; Day 7:&nbsp; July 11 Quiz and/or Homework Review Rhetorical Devices: Wrap-up Rhetorical Analysis Lecture Rhetorical Analysis Activity Rhetorical Analysis Activity Homework Readings: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Exercises: &nbsp; Day 8: July 12 Homework Review Final Writing Assignment: Requirements and Preparation Final Writing Assignment Preparation Final Writing Assignment Preparation &nbsp; &nbsp; 1 2 3 4 Homework Day 1:&nbsp; July 1 Introductions... http://elitzakotzeva.com/Education Mon, 03 Dec 2018 01:34:20 +0000 Elitza Kotzeva 300881  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:&nbsp;Czech, Slovak, and Bulgarian (2002) Department of Slavic Languages, Sofia University, Bulgaria Thesis: Constructing Identity through the Process of Nicknaming among the&nbsp;Romany Ethnic Community in the Czech Republic Diploma, Italian Language (2001) Italian Cultural Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria  Education PhD in English: Rhetoric and Composition (2019) Department of English, Washington State University Dissertation: Rhetorical Alterations:...