https://elitzakotzeva.com Elitza Kotzeva Tue, 13 Aug 2024 12:56:05 +0000 https://elitzakotzeva.com en http://elitzakotzeva.com/Awards Tue, 13 Aug 2024 12:56:05 +0000 Elitza Kotzeva 453966  Grants and Awards  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.  2024-2025       American University of Armenia Research Accomplishment Award 2022-2023       Calouste Gulbenkian Short-Term Research Grant 2018                   John W. Ehrstine Fellowship, Washington State University English                                    Department 2018                  Avon J. Murphy Scholarship, Washington State University English                                       Department 2016                   Susan H. McLeod Writing Across the Curriculum Travel Award,                                 Washington State University 2016                   Washington State University English Department Award for                                 Outstanding PhD Seminar Paper 2015                    National Book Centre of Bulgaria, Translation Grant for the                                 Publication of Concerto for Sentence 2014                    NAFSA Bi-Regional Highlight Selection for the 67th National NAFSA                                 conference for the session “Creating, Implementing and                                 Assessing Intercultural Certificate Programs,” November 2014,                                 Portland, OR             2008                   Cratis D. Williams Graduate School Graduate Research                                 Assistantship, Appalachian State University 2008                   Office of Student Research, GSAS Travel Grant, Appalachian                                 State University 2006                  Faculty Development Grant, College of Charleston    2006                  William E. Murray International Travel Scholarship for Faculty and                                 Students, College of Charleston    2005                  National Italian American Foundation, Washington, DC,                                 funding to establish an Italian Club at the College of Charleston  2004                  Public Affairs Grant, Missouri State University, funding for a                                   public radio program on interculturalism  Grants and Awards  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/Untitled-page-1 Tue, 30 Nov 2021 10:12:33 +0000 Elitza Kotzeva 415668 http://elitzakotzeva.com/Presentations-and-Older-Scholarshi Tue, 30 Nov 2021 10:12:29 +0000 Elitza Kotzeva 415667 Conference Presentations                           “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:  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.                  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  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     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                           ... http://elitzakotzeva.com/Service Mon, 29 Nov 2021 11:29:32 +0000 Elitza Kotzeva 415617                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.              2024                            Assistant editor for the 2023 issue of                                                              Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition                             2021-now                 AUA TEDxAUA Club Advisor             2022-2024                 AUA Shakespeare Fall Fest               2021-2022                 Work on Student Multimodal Composition Assessment                2019-2022                 AUA Academic Standards Committee Member                 2020-2021                Developed and implemented a Common Read                                                           Program at AUA                   2020-2021                AUA IRB Board Member                 2020-2021                AUA Library Advisory Committee Member                 2020-2021                AUA Student Book Club Advisor                  2019-2021                AUA WAC Initiative Workshop Series                                                       2017-2019                 WSU Professional Development Initiative Writer                                                       Workshop Series                 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   1 2 3 4 Homework Day 1:  July 1 Introductions Course description Expectations Requirements         Class plan and schedule           Intro to Rhetoric and Political Communication           Lecture and Activity Brief history of rhetoric and its importance         Lecture and discussion Readings: Toye, 7-32 Herrick, Overview of Rhetoric Scholarly definitions of rhetoric     Day 2: July 2 Discussion of reading Classical rhetoric overview               Lecture The three kinds of persuasive discourse                 Lecture and Activity The five canons of rhetoric                 Lecture and Activity  The three appeals                   Lecture and Activity Readings: Corbett, 22-28 Corbett, 28-31             Exercise:   Day 3:  July 3 Quiz on the five canons of rhetoric  The three appeals: intro               Lecture The three appeals                   Lecture The three appeals                   Writing activity Logic and Arguments                 Writing activity Readings: Corbett, 37-38, 80-84 Toye, 36-42 Ethos, Logos, Pathos The Toulmin Model   Exercise: Persuasive Techniques   Day 4: July 4 Quiz on the three appeals and the Toulmin model       How to Compose a Thesis Statement     Lecture and Activity Logical Fallacies                   Lecture and Activity Logical Fallacies                     Lecture and Activity Logical Fallacies                   Activity and Homework Readings: Corbett, 32-37; Larsen and Hodge, 14-23     Exercises: Bluedorn and Bluedorn, 28-73, 188-234 Brief Writing     Assignment   Day 5:  July 9 Homework submission and review         Arrangement         Lecture and Activity Style           Lecture and Activity Figures of Speech         Lecture and Activity Readings:       Exercises:   Day 6: July 10 Quiz on arrangement, style, and figures of speech Rhetorical devices: Intro   Lecture Rhetorical devices of strategy         Lecture and Activity Rhetorical devices of organization       Lecture and Activity Rhetorical devices of style       Lecture and activity Readings:       Exercises:   Day 7:  July 11 Quiz and/or Homework Review Rhetorical Devices: Wrap-up Rhetorical Analysis Lecture Rhetorical Analysis Activity Rhetorical Analysis Activity Homework Readings:       Exercises:   Day 8: July 12 Homework Review Final Writing Assignment: Requirements and Preparation Final Writing Assignment Preparation Final Writing Assignment Preparation     1 2 3 4 Homework Day 1:  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: 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  Education PhD in English: Rhetoric and Composition (2019) Department of English, Washington State University Dissertation: Rhetorical Alterations:... http://elitzakotzeva.com/Teaching Mon, 03 Dec 2018 01:34:09 +0000 Elitza Kotzeva 300880  TeachingAmerican University of Armenia (AUA)o   EC 270 Rhetoric, Power, and Persuasion  This course examines the complex relations between media and political systems, exploring the role of the media in politics and its links with political institutions, processes and actors. Students will apply theoretical understandings in the critical analysis of political communication, journalism, and new media, as they study both global trends and local realities. Instructor-led lectures and discussions, with coursework including theoretical analysis, case studies, and practical application. o  EC 290 Research MethodsThis course introduces students to research methods in the fields of English language and literature, linguistics, writing and translation, and communications and media studies and prepares them for their capstone project in the subsequent term. Students will refine their skills of library research as they identify and formulate research questions. o  EC 299 Capstone Research This last-year BA course guides students through the process of writing their capstone paper. Students get a chance to investigate an area of academic and professional interest while building upon the knowledge and skills they have acquired through their English & Communication coursework.  As the culminating experience for the BA in English & Communications degree, the capstone course is designed to be highly individualized. o   EC 141 Persuasive Writing This course is designed to develop students’ persuasive writing skills for use in a wide array of academic and professional contexts. Students will become familiar with the structural and rhetorical features of formulating and communicating arguments in a persuasive manner, taking into consideration such factors as audience, reasoning, evidence, and style. They will be encouraged to view writing as a process, involving planning, drafting, and revision for clarity and precision. Students are required to complete short readings and weekly writing assignments, which may include but are not limited to persuasive essays, letters, reviews, and proposals. o  EC 213 Digital Literacy and Multimodal Composition This course offers students the opportunity to explore digital reading and writing practices by accounting for the rhetorical, social, cultural, political, educational, and ethical dimensions of the digital texts. Students both get acquainted with the theoretical foundations of multimodal composition and develop highly transferable digital composition and rhetorical skills, which they can use to compose across different curricular, academic, professional, and personal contexts. o   EC 233 Local and Global Shakespeares This course offers an in-depth exploration of Shakespearean poetry and drama, including his tragedies, comedies, histories, and romances. The class will focus on cultural and formal features within Shakespeare’s writings as well as cultural trends that Shakespeare responded to and helped shape. Students will learn to apply literary theory in their analysis of the texts, to compare and contrast adaptations of Shakespeare’s works produced in different periods and cultures, and to embed these interpretations within the cultural history of the Shakespearean corpus. Assignments will include a mix of class discussions, presentations, and papers that involve both research and close reading of Shakespeare's texts. o  EC 121 English Literature Survey This course introduces students to English literature from the earliest texts written in Anglo-Saxon through the twentieth century and focuses on the development of various literary genres as well as on the works of the most significant literary figures. o  EC 120 American Literature Survey  This survey course introduces students to American literature from the beginning of European contact to the present, focusing on major authors and different literary genres. It examines the historical influences on the evolution of this body of literature and the construction of a distinct and complex American identity. o  CTRA 381 History and Theories of Translation (graduate) This graduate course aims to investigate the history of translation and the theories that have accompanied the changing roles of translation in the societies where they have been put into practice. Translation is viewed here as a factor that has contributed to shifts in intellectual, literary and cultural trends. This course also examines the main theoretical concepts currently discussed in translation studies and demonstrates how they influence translation in practice.   China University of Political Science and Law o   Political Communication: Classical Rhetorical Concepts and Modern Practice Washington State University o   WRIT 405: Writing Tutorial for Syntactic Structures in Professional and Academic Contexts (Spring 2019) Writing 405 is designed for graduate and upper-division undergraduate students to support their practice of the stylistic rules in English academic writing. It provides individualized and small group instruction to improve writing skills for professional and academic purposes. o   ENGL 101: College Composition (Spring 2016) Focus: Writing as Performance Introduction to the conventions of academic and research-based writing. Because the course is organized around the idea of writing as performance, students get the opportunity to work toward a broader definition of literacy while they study cultural artifacts and performances as texts. The class aims at developing students’ academic writing, critical thinking, rhetorical strategies, reading and library skills.  University of Idaho o   INTR 498/ HON498: Intercultural Mentoring (Spring 2015) This one-credit service-learning course is developed for students in the Honors Program serve as mentors for one semester to international students enrolled in the American Language and Culture Program (ALCP). o   ISEM 101 (Honors Section): Integrated Seminar (Fall 2013) Focus: Dissident Souls: Dream and Reality in Communist Eastern Europe Introduction to dissident thought in Eastern Europe during Communism. Students explore the state of the individual, her dreams and passions mostly by reading fiction and political writing. Students gain basic understanding of the historical, political, and social aspects of the period. The class puts an emphasis on writing projects.                                            o   ISEM 101: Integrated Seminar (Fall 2013) Focus: International Culture of the Cold War This course introduces students to the cultural transformations during the Cold War period at the international level. By applying integrated methodology in both  the  humanities and  social  sciences to  the  study of  the  Cold War culture,  we examine how  political  and economic  developments  reflected anxiety  of  society, emotion  of  individual citizens,  cultural  expression of  art,  literature and  cinema, and  psychology  of  the  international communities.   Appalachian State University                                                       o   WGC 1104: Investigations Global (Spring 2013) Focus: Devouring Eyes: Representations of Food in Italian Film, Literature, and Culture This six-credit course introduces students to the consumption of food as a rhetorical cultural practice. The class explores diverse representations of food in Italian film, literature, and culture in general. Students watch films and read Italian literature in translation from different historical periods; for example, they read a portion of The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio together with contemporary essays like the writings of  Carlo Petrini, the founder of the Slow Food Movement. The course counts as both English 102 and World History. o   WGC 1104: Investigations Global (Spring 2012) Focus: Czechoslovakia: A Brief Intellectual History of Nation-Building in Eastern Europe This six-credit course provides an overview of the ideas of Czechoslovak intellectuals that led to the Prague Spring of 1968 and the Velvet Revolution of 1989. Students learn how to critically read texts that relate to a specific region and its culture, investigate an issue that emerges from the reading, work collaboratively in research projects, and write a research paper. The course counts as both English 102 and World History. o    IDS 2202/ WGC 2202: Interdisciplinary Tangent (Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013) Focus: Modern Italian Culture and Language This introductory course is designed to acquaint students with major aspects of Italian culture. The class offers a larger overview of Italy--its history, geography, and language.  Along with substantive knowledge, students are expected to develop basic communicative competency in Italian. o   WGC 3351: Pedagogy of Investigations (Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013) This course is designed for teaching assistants of WGC 1103/ IDS 1103 and WGC 1104/ IDS 1104. The class helps students to develop skills as peer writing consultants, facilitators of in-class discussions, and mentors of small research groups.  o   WGC 3202: Junior Seminar (Fall 2010) Focus: Italian Masterpieces: Cultural History of Italian Regional Cuisine Introduction to the history of Italian food and its variations in different geographic regions.  Students learn how to make connections between social practices of food preparation, food consumption and a specific geographic area.  The readings include both scholarly articles and literary works. o   IDS 1103/ WGC 1103: Investigations Local (Fall 2009, Fall 2010) Focus: Immigration and Multiculturalism in Watauga County. This six-credit course helps students understand the history of immigration and the development of a multicultural society in the United States. In the service-learning component of the class, students have a chance to apply their knowledge to a particular local case in Watauga County, North Carolina.  The course counts as First Year Seminar and First Year Writing. o   IDS 3150: Interdisciplinary Studies Praxis (Fall 2009, Spring 2010) This course guides students in investigating the concepts of interdisciplinarity and provides them with an opportunity to focus on their individual concentrations. The course assists students in planning and selecting their interdisciplinary courses of study as well as draw connections between disciplinary course work and interdisciplinary fields.  o   IDS 4550: Interdisciplinary Studies Senior Seminar (Fall 2008, Spring 2009) This course offers IDS students in their senior year an opportunity to draw together the divers strands of their interdisciplinary studies, reflect on the connections between them, and produce an in-depth senior project focusing on the student concentration within the major. As part of the process, students reflect on their methodology—how to bring together data, methods, and practices from diverse disciplines. o   IDS 1104/ WGC 1103: Investigations Local (Spring 2009) Focus: The Balkans: Narratives of the Powerless This six-credit course introduces students to the culture and societies in the Balkan region—Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, Albania, Bulgaria, and Macedonia. First, it provides a larger overview of the region (geography, politics, religion, language, and culture); then, it allows students to investigate a specific issue within a selected geographic area of the Balkans. The course counts as First Year Seminar and First Year Writing. o   IDS 1104/ WGC 1104: Investigations Global (Spring 2008) Focus: Ethnicity and Transition in Eastern Europe This six-credit course introduces students to the culture and societies in Eastern Europe. First, it provides a larger overview of the region (geography, politics, religion, language, and culture) and then allows students to investigate a specific issue within a selected geographic area of the Balkans. The course counts for English 102 and World History. College of Charleston o   ITAL 101: Italian Language (Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007) o   ITAL 102: Italian Language (Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007)  Missouri State University o   ITAL 101: Italian Language (Fall 2004, Spring 2005)   TeachingAmerican University of Armenia (AUA)o   EC 270 Rhetoric, Power, and Persuasion  This course examines the complex relations between media and... http://elitzakotzeva.com/Literary-Translation Mon, 03 Dec 2018 01:33:46 +0000 Elitza Kotzeva 300879 Literary Translation I translate literary works in the following language pairs: Bulgarian-English, Czech-English,  Italian-English, and Czech-Bulgarian. I am  a member of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA).  Published Poems and Novel Excerpts An excerpt from the novella Welcome, Nathan!—An Act of Literary Genesis by Irina Papancheva. Apofenie: Literary Journal for Underrepresented Voices. Summer 2020. Poetry by poets of the Bulgarian circle New Social Poetry. Apofenie. Volume 7: Justice. June 2019. Excerpt from Invisible by Nataliya Deleva. Exhanges: Journal of Literary Translation. Fall 2018 Issue. The University of Iowa. “From Concerto for Sentence by Emiliya Dvoryanova, translated by Elitza Kotzeva.”Review of Contemporary Fiction, 33 (1): 46-51. Dalkey Archive Press, 2013.Published Full-Length Novels Concerto for Sentence by Emiliya Dvoryanova. Urbana- Champaign: Dalkey Archive Press, 2016. (Bulgarian to English)Born under a Lucky Star by Ilona Lacková. Centre de Recherches Tsiganes, Université “René Descartes”, Paris, France. Sofia: Litavra Publishing, 2000. (Czech to Bulgarian)  Literary Translation I translate literary works in the following language pairs: Bulgarian-English, Czech-English,  Italian-English, and Czech-Bulgarian. I... http://elitzakotzeva.com/Scholarship Mon, 03 Dec 2018 01:14:45 +0000 Elitza Kotzeva 300878  Research Research StatementI write about material culture,  rhetorical ethics, and gender. In general theoretical terms, I am interested in the relationship between the rhetorical, the ideological, and the material and how it changes over time. More specifically, I study cultural rhetorics related to women, war, and violence.  Peer-Reviewed Articles Kotzeva, Elitza. “From Admiring Death Masks to Spray-Painting Communist Monuments, or Citizens Revisiting Collective Memory.” Journal of Historical Geography. Forthcoming in 2026. 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. "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. Presentations and Older Scholarship   Research Research StatementI write about material culture,  rhetorical ethics, and gender. In general theoretical terms, I am interested in the... http://elitzakotzeva.com/Home-Page Mon, 17 Aug 2015 23:34:03 +0000 Elitza Kotzeva 300876 Elitza Kotzeva Kotzeva, PhDI am an associate professor of English at the American University of Armenia.  I teach research methods and senior writing classes, survey literature courses, and theory of translation.  I position myself as a feminist rhetorical scholar.  My research explores the intersections of material rhetorics, gender studies, and rhetorical ethnography. Research  Teaching Service Awards Education Translation ORCID: 0000-0002-7188-6270 Email: elitza.kotzeva@aua.am Elitza Kotzeva Kotzeva, PhDI am an associate professor of English at the American University of Armenia.  I teach research methods and senior writing classes,...