Bio
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Education
Ph.D. 1996
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Slavic Languages
Thesis: "Authoritarian State, Good Governance, and the Emergence of Intelligentsia in Imperial Russia."
Ph.D. 1987
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Art Studies, Sofia
Thesis: "The Concept of Tragedy in Western Thought"
M. A. 1982
Theater and Film Academy, History and Theory Department, Sofia
Thesis: "Sukhovo-Kobylin's Carnival Poetics."
Scholarly Books
The Adam Complex: Essays in Politics and Culture. Varna: LiterNet, 2006 (second extended electronic edition)
www.liternet.bg/publish19/vl_todorov/adamov_kompleks/index.html
Chaotic Pendulum: Inquiries in Terrorism and Governmentality. Sofia:
Espace Culture, 2005, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Bulgaria and Open Society Institute, Sofia.
http://www.helikon.bg/book.php?book_id=115675
Premiere and book signing
The Red House: Center for Culture and Debate, Sofia, 15 June, 2005.
http://www.redhouse-sofia.org/bg/projects/a_live_events/vladislav_todorov_bg.html
Book Reviews
Sotirov, B. “The Pendulum of Terrorism.” Policies, July 2005
Lazarov, A. “The Pendulum of Meaning.” Kapital Light, 25 June, 2005
Short Paradox for the Theater and Other Figures of Life. Sofia: Sofia University Press, 1997
Book Reviews
Decheva, V. “Book-Event.” Kultura, 10 April, 1998
Red Square, Black Square: Organon for Revolutionary Imagination. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995
Book reviews
Eliot Borenstein, The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 40, No. 2 (Summer, 1996), pp. 387-389
Alla Efimova, “To Touch on the Raw: The Aesthetic Affections of Socialist Realism” Art Journal, Vol. 56, No. 1, Aesthetics and the Body Politic. (Spring, 1997), pp. 72-80
The Adam Complex: Essays in Politics and Culture. Sofia: Ivan Vazov, 1991
Novel
Zift: A Noir Novel. Plovdiv: Janet-45, 2006
Premiere and book signing
Winter Book Fair, National Palace of Culture, Sofia, 13 December, 2006.
Award Nominations
Vick Prize for the Bulgarian Novel of the Year, 2007
http://www.vickfoundation.com/bg/shortlist2007.html
National Literary Prize “Elias Canetti,” 2007
http://mc.government.bg/newsn.php?n=586&i=1
Unabridged radio release
Bulgarian National Radio, Art Efir, red by Zakhari Bakharov, April/May, 2007
http://www.bnr.bg/HristoBotev/Anounce/0416izbrano.htm
Book Reviews
Penchev, B. “Zift -- Don’t miss it.” Kapital Light, 16 February, 2007
Kamburov, D. “Black solder for the yellow pavement of fiction.” Altera, 1/2, 2007
Eftimov, J. “The pulp fiction of a historian of ideas.” Literary newspaper,
February, 2007
Igov, A. “La Langue Flambé,” Kultura, 23 January, 2007
Screenplay
Zift: Film Noir directed by Javor Gardev, produced by Miramar and sponsored by the Bulgarian National Film Center and the Bulgarian National TV.
http://www.ziftthemovie.com/
Moscow International Film Festival, 2008
Official sellection for the main competition
Won: The prize “Silver St. George” for the best director for Javor Gardev
The prize of the Russian Film Clubs Federation for the best film in main competition
http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/eng/30/films/12/
http://mmkf.rambler.ru/
Toronto International Film Festival '08
Discovery Program Official Selection
http://tiff08.ca/filmsandschedules/films/zift
http://www.tiffreviews.com/2008/film-profile?fid=214
Short fiction in English
The Somersault. Chelsea 76 (2004)
www.liternet.bg/publish19/vl_todorov/somersault.htm
http://www.chelseamag.org/76/contributors/
The Four Luxemburgs: From the Diary of a Traveler. Postmodern Culture v.3 n.2 (January, 1993)
http://www.infomotions.com/serials/pmc/pmc-v3n2-todorov-four.txt
Mass-media appearances and interviews
TV and Radio Interviews:
TV7, 9 June, 2008 (The presidential elections in the US.)
National Darik Radio, 4 January, 2008 ("Zift" the movie and the novel, work in progress, the "outside" view of the Bulgarian political and cultural scene)
TV7, 19 December, 2007 (Populism, civil society and the ellectoral situation of the Bulgarian democratic right)
Bulgarian National Radio, “Cultural Roulette ,” 16 December, 2007 (The book market and the contemporary literary scene)
Bulgarian National Radio, “Art Ether,” 24 May, 2007 (The novel “Zift” and the contemporary literary scene in Bulgaria.)
National Darik Radio, “Bulgaria in the Afternoon,” January, 2007 (The recent publication of the novel “Zift”)
Bulgarian National Radio, “Cultural Roulette ,” 10 December, 2006 (The novel “Zift” and the “noir” genre in fiction and film.)
Bulgarian National Radio, “Before Everyone Else,” 16 June 2005 (The recent publication of the book “Chaotic Pendulum,” post-communist transition, foreign policy and terrorism.)
bTV, “This Morning,” 15 June 2005 (The premiere of “Chaotic Pendulum,” and a discussion about the nature of global terrorism)
Radio Bulgaria, “Studio Politics,” 20 December, 2004 (The challenges of G.W. Bush's second term.)
Radio New Europe, “Studio Bulgaria,” 17 December, 2004 (Discussion of the US national security doctrine and the nature of the new enemy.)
Bulgarian National Radio, “Sunday 150,” 31 October, 2004 (The presidential elections in the US.)
Bulgarian National Radio, “Before Everyone Else,” 29 July, 2004 (The presidential elections in the US.)
Bulgarian National Radio, “Sunday 150,” 30 May, 2004 (Discussion about the newly created political party Democrats for Prosperous Bulgaria)
Bulgarian National Radio, “Before Everyone Else,” 2 April, 2004 (Discussion of the Bulgarian NATO membership.)
New Bulgarian Television, “Hello Bulgaria,” 2 March, 2004 (Islamic terrorism, national security and the Bulgarian democratic right.)
Bulgarian National Radio, “Before Everyone Else,” 1 March, 2004 (Reforming the Bulgarian democratic right.)
Bulgarian National Television, “Panorama,” 19 December, 2003 (Political, social and cultural effects of the post-communist transition.)
Bulgarian National Radio, “Before Everyone Else,” 15 February, 1998 (Official visit of the Bulgarian president Peter Stoyanov to the US.)
Interviews in Major Bulgarian Daily and Weekly Papers and Magazines:
Trud, 5 July, 2008 (Film "Zift" at the Moscow International Film Festival, 2008; party politics and charismatic leaders)
Politika, 4-10 January, 2008 (Writing the novel and shooting the movie "Zift; Noir as a cinematic and literary genre)
Voices, 15-21 December, 2007 (Electoral situation of the Bulgarian democratic right)
Voices, 22-28 June, 2007 (Critique of the organizational and ideological state of affairs within the democratic right of the post-communist transition.)
Theme Magazine, 25-31 December, 2006 (The ideological and organizational decline of the Bulgarian democratic right.)
Sega, 30 December, 2006 (Nostalgia, literary and genre fiction, and the newly published novel “Zift.”)
Voices, 24-30 November, 2006 (Defining the predicaments of the post-communist party system.)
Voices, 16-22 June, 2006 (The crisis in the Bulgarian democratic right and its exhausted cause related to completion of the post-communist transition and the effects of the Bulgarian EU and NATO membership)
24 Hours, 11 and 15 June, 2005 (Political propaganda during elections.)
Sega, 10 March, 2005 (The dilemmas of the Bulgarian democratic right and the country’s involvement in the Iraq campaign.)
24 Hours, 11 November, 2004 (Outlining the strategic effects of the US presidential elections)
24 Hours, 23 August, 2004 (Bulgaria on the crossroads, the post-communist transformation and regional instability.)
Mediapool, 25 April, 2004 (The creation of the party Democrats for Prosperous Bulgaria.)
Mediapool, 2 March, 2004 (Reforming the Bulgarian democratic right.)
Seven, 14-20 January, 2004 (The need of organizational restructuring of the Bulgarian democratic right.)
Dnevnik, 30 December, 2003 (Corruption, the Bulgarian political elite and its predicaments.)
Literary Newspaper, 29 December, 2003 (Contemporary academic/creative writing in the US.)
24 Hours, 23 December, 2003 (Bulgarian NATO membership and national security strategy in the situation of global and regional instability.)
Dnevnik, 24 February, 2003 (Commentary of 21c. terrorism, global order and disorder)
Kapital, 24-30 November, 2001 (Political effects of the recent Bulgarian elections.)
Kapital, 22-28 September, 2001 (Religious fanaticism and global terrorism.)
Dnevnik, 31 March, 2001 (Bulgarian foreign affairs within the context of the Balkan geopolitical remapping.)
Kapital, 29 April - 8 May, 2000 (Corruption and organized crime in Bulgarian)
Kapital, 8-14 юни 1998 (NATO enlargement)
Articles and Essays
“Revolucionarna zdruzitev znanosti I umetnosti” Likovne Besede Ljubljana 71/72 (2005): 9-36; continuation in 73/74 (2005): 45-57.
“Terror and Governance” Occasional Papers, Center for Policy Studies, Central European University, Budapest (October, 2004)
"Bulgaria after the Elections: Reform Process Underway." East European Studies Newsletter, The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, January 1998.
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1422&fuseaction=topics.publications&doc_id=18927&group_id=7427
“Of Personation: Imposture and Authority.” Democratic Review, Sofia Annual Digest (96/97): 58-86.
"Introduction to the Political Aesthetics of Communism." Post-Theory, Games, and Discursive Resistance: The Bulgarian Case. Ed. Alexander Kiossev. Albany: State U of New York P, 1995. 65-94.
"The Birth of the Mummy from the Spirit of Ideology." College Literature 1 (1994): 102-119.
http://www.wcupa.edu/_ACADEMICS/sch_cas.lit/default.htm
"Introduction to the Philosophy of the Ruins." The Yale Journal of Criticism 1 (1993): 249-257.
http://www.liternet.bg/publish19/vl_todorov/introduction.htm
"Adam: Der Namengeber." Neue Literatur 2 (1993): 12-14
"A konspiracio kis organonja." A Mutanans Egzotikuma: Bolgar Posztmodern Esszek. Budapest: 2000-Orpheus, 1993. 151-162
"Introduction to the Political Aesthetics of Communism." Textual Practice 5 (1991): 363-82.
"Rouge/Noir." L'infini Paris 33 (1991): 133-142
"Obraz kak deianie." Silentium St. Petersburg 1 (1991)
"Ino-skazanie bez inogo." Consciousness in Socio-Cultural Dimension. Moscow: Academy of Sciences, 1990.
http://photounion.by/klinamen/fila8.html
"Ruda/Cerna." Konzerva Prague 2 (1990)
In Bulgarian
Columnist for the daily Dnevnik, Sofia.
"Who’s who in the US Elections." Kultura, February 13 (2008)
http://www.kultura.bg/article.php?id=13864
“American Dreams and Anti-Americanism.” Foreign Policy (Bulgarian edition) # 2, June/July 2005
“Liberty or Death: Neo-conservatism and the Muslim Brotherhood.” Kultura, February 18 (2005)
http://www.online.bg/kultura/my_html/2356/djihad.htm
“Elections in the US.” 24 Hours, November 11 (2004)
“Terrorism: Method and Counter-method.” Kultura, October 29 (2004)
http://www.online.bg/kultura/my_html/2343/terorvt.htm
“The Bloody Thursday: St. Nedelya Cathedral Terror Attack.” Kultura October 8 (2004)
“Of Small Government and Strong Governance.” Kapital 16 (2004)
“Martyrdom and Pyrotechnics: Engineering the Human Bomb.” Christianity and Culture, April (2004)
www.liternet.bg/publish19/vl_todorov/zhiva.htm
http://www.hkultura.com/archive/issue09/108-120.pdf
“The Enemy and the Pendulum Effect” Kapital, 20 (2003)
“The Disarmed Messiah: An Essay on the Intellectual” Kultura February 21 (2003)
http://www.online.bg/kultura/my_html/2263/intelectual.htm
"Terror and Terrorism." Medii i Mitove. G. Lozanov and O. Spasov Eds. Sofia University Press, 2000. 250-259
"NATO: the Bulgarian Quest and its Apostles." Kultura September 25 (1998)
http://www.online.bg/kultura/my_html/2047/nato.htm
"The State as Magnum Opus." Democratic Review Winter 8/9 (1996): 206-232.
"Of the Police." Kultura October 4 (1996)
"Ideology and Paranoia: A Critique of the Hologram Society." Kritika i Khumanism 3 (1992)
"Post-conspiratorial Society." Debati 1 (1991)
"The Dangerous Intellect." Kultura 14-15 (1991)
"The Factory of Ruins: Of the Monumental Space of Communism." Eco-Politika 9 (1990)
"Pragmatics of the Post-communist Openness." Kultura 39 (1990)
"Bulgaria: Features of the Transition." Kultura 30 (1990)
" Lenin’s Mummy and the Solidification of Power." Kultura 17 (1990)
"Disciplining Communal Bodies." Kultura 1 (1990)
"Red/Black: Poetics of the Conspiratorial Space." Glas 1-2 (1990)
"The Political Aesthetics of Communism." Izbor 1 (1990)
"The Tragic Articulations of Life." Problemi na Izkustvoto 4 (1989)
Teaching Experience
The University of Pennsylvania
Sem Course ID Title Enrollment/Instr Ratings
2007C COML100401 Intro To Literature 54
2007C RUSS190001 Terrorism: Russian Origins and 21 C. Methods 25
2007C RUSS196601 Russian Short Story 19
2007B RUSS434920 Media and Terrorism 14
2007A RUSS165401 Russ & East Euro Film 38/3.63
2007A RUSS275402 Russian History in Film 16/3.2
2007A RUSS430601 Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Film 16/3.87
2006C COML100401 Intro To Literature 35 2.85
2006C RUSS190001 Terrorism: Russian Origins and 21 C. Methods 35/3.38
2006C RUSS196601 Russian Short Story 16/3.71
2006B RUSS434920 Media and Terrorism 17/3.38
2006A RUSS165401 Russ & East Euro Film 34/3.42
2006A RUSS275402 Russian History in Film 26/3.29
2006A RUSS430601 Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Film 18/3.35
2005C COML100401 Intro To Literature 19/2.69
2005C RUSS190001 Terrorism: Russian Origins and 21 C. Methods 39/3.1
2005C RUSS196601 Russian Short Story 20/3.5
2005B RUSS434920 Media and Terrorism 8/3.71
2005A RUSS165401 Russ & East Euro Film 32/3.38
2005A RUSS201001 Dostoevsky 8/3.71
2005A RUSS436601 Film/Art Russ Revolution 9/3.33
2004C RUSS190001 Terrorism: Russian Origins and 21 C. Methods 57/3.08
2004C RUSS196601 Russian Short Story 10 3.38
2004C RUSS275401 Russian History in Film 27 3.36
2004B RUSS434920 Media and Terrorism 8
2003C RUSS190001 Terrorism: Russian Origins and 21 C. Methods 45/3.2
2003C RUSS275401 Russian History in Film 34/3.29
2003C RUSS436601 Film/Art Russ Revolution 12/3.67
2003C SLAV999640 Independent Study: Terrorism and the Media 1
2003B RUSS434910 Media and Terrorism 6/3.67
2003A RUSS024601 Film/Art Russ Revolution 20/3.5
2003A RUSS201001 Dostoevsky 17/3.08
2003A RUSS225401 Russian History in Film 32/3.41
2003A RUSS999002 Independent Study 1
2002C RUSS022001 Terrorism: Russian Origins and 21 C. Methods 62/3.06
2002C RUSS024601 Film/Art Russ Revolution 16/3.57
2002C RUSS225401 Russian History in Film 32/3.47
2002C RUSS399002 Supervised Work 1
2002B RUSS434910 Media and Terrorism 13
2002A RUSS022001 Terrorism: Russian Origins and 21 C. Methods 96/3.16
2002A RUSS201001 Dostoevsky 12/2.91
2002A RUSS225601 Russian History in Film, Drama and Fiction 22/3.1
2001C RUSS024601 Film/Art Russ Revolution 20/3.35
2001C RUSS225401 Russian History in Film 25/3.38
2001B RUSS434910 Media and Terrorism 16
2001A RUSS201001 Dostoevsky 41/2.72
2001A RUSS225601 Russian History in Film, Drama and Fiction 27/3
2000C RUSS031001 Russ Lit To 1870'S 23/2.47
2000C RUSS225601 Russian History in Film 25/2.85
2000B RUSS434910 Media and Terrorism 9
2000A RUSS225601 Russian History in Film, Drama and Fiction 25/2.76
Rutgers University, Slavic Languages & Art History Department
Mellon teaching grant, Zimmerli Art Museum
1998C Russian Futurism in Context
New Bulgarian University, Sofia
1991A Fiction and Ideology
Sofia University, Cultural Studies Department
1989C The Political Mimesis
Fellowships and Grants
2004 Fall -- Open Society Institute, Sofia, Fellow
Project: "Bulgarian National Security Strategy and the New Threats”
2004 Spring -- Central European University, Budapest, Center for Policy Studies, Fellow
Project: “Terrorism and Governance”
1997 Summer -- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, Visiting Fellow
Project: "The Balkan Risk Factor and NATO Expansion"
1996-97 -- Open Society Institute Research Support Scheme Grant, Prague
Project: "The Discourse of Terrorism in XIX c. Russia. Influence on the Balkans."
1993-94 -- Central European University Research Grant, Prague
Project: "Authors and Authority."
1992-93 -- Central European University Research Grant, Budapest
Project: "The Prophetic Vision: Kafka and Platonov"
1991 Fall -- Naumann Fund, Sofia Research Grant
Project: "The Post-Communist Laboratory"
1990 Spring -- Institut fuer die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna, Visiting Fellow
Project: "Political Aesthetics of the Public Space"
1988-91 -- Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Art Studies, Research Fellow
Project: "The Allegorical Principle of Political Art"
1989 Spring -- Moscow Institute of Philosophy, Department of Politics, Visiting Fellow
Collaborative Work
The Cold War Project, Head of Organizational Committee of the University of Pennsylvania interdepartmental initiative involving film series, readings of samizdat work, lectures, stage readings, exhibitions, and a conference, sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages, Department of Germanic Languages, The Kelly Writers House, Arthur Ross Gallery, Cinema Studies Program, Theater Arts Program.
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/slavic/calendar/samizdat_cold_war.htm
US-Bulgarian Task Force, CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies,) Washington, DC.
"The Grey Zone," Research project on NATO expansion funded by the General Marshal Fund, The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Hudson Institute.
"Western Images of the Eastern Changes," Research group “Periphery,” Sofia.
Talks
“Public perceptions of organized crime”
Open Society Fund Colloquium, 27-28 May 2005
“The Vacuum and the Postmodern Novel”
University of Pennsylvania, Philomathean Society, Spring 2005
“The US Elections in Bulgarian Perspective”
Open Society Institute and Center for Liberal Strategies, Sofia, Fall 2004
“Neo-Conservatism and Anti-Americanism”
Institute of Euro-Atlantic Security, Sofia, Round table, Fall 2004
“Anti-liberalism and Terrorism”
Red House: Center for Culture and Debate, Sofia, 14 October, 2004
“Global Terrorism and the Butterfly Effect”
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spring 2004
“Martyrdom and Pyrotechnics: The Engineering the Human Bomb”
Central European University, Budapest, Spring 2004
http://cps.ceu.hu/tordorov_suicidebombs.php
“There shall be no Security without an Enemy”
Central European University, Budapest, Spring 2004
http://cps.ceu.hu/todorov_security.php
“Neo-conservatism and National Security Doctrine”
Open Society Fund and Center for Liberal Strategies, Sofia, Fall 2003
“The Intellectuals: Identity. Legitimacy. Authenticity.”
Institute for Advanced Study, Sofia, Fall 2002
Panel: “Condition of the Bulgarian Society”
Open Society Fund, Sofia, Fall 2002
“Of Personation: Imposture and Authenticity Effect”
University of Pennsylvania Kelly Writers House Theorizing 2.0, Spring 2002
“The Right of Violence.”
Keynote Speaker at No-Man’s Land Forum, The Red House, Sofia, Fall 2001
"The Bulgarian Quest for NATO"
Center for Liberal Strategies, Sofia, Spring 1988
“Bulgaria: New Politics and Old Security Issues”
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Fall 1997
“Bulgaria After the Elections”
Foreign Service Institute, US Department of State, Fall 1997
"We, the Crystal Palace and the Common Cause: Genealogy of Zamyatin's Dystopian Imagination
Brown University, Department of Slavic Languages, Spring 1997
"Terror and Terrorism"
Sofia University, School of Communications, Department of Journalism, Spring 1997
"Intelligentsia and National Affect"
Yale University, Center for Russian and East European Studies, Spring 1995
"Author and Authority: Writing under the Rule of Nicholas I"
Emory University, Department of Russian Studies, Spring 1995
"Mummies or Idols? The Mystique of the Leader in Communist Societies"
Cornell University, Fall 1991
"Political Modernism and Social Modernization"
Sofia University, Department of Sociology, Spring 1991
Conferences
“Europe in Hollywood”
Interactive Colloquium, French Institute-Sofia, June 2-3, 2007
http://www.institutfrance.bg/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=113
“Samizdat and Underground Culture in the Soviet Bloc Countries”
Head of the Organizational Committee, University of Pennsylvania, April 6-7, 2006
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/slavic/calendar/samizdat_cold_war.htm
Dostoyevsky Dismembered
Panel Chair: “Truths and Doubts.” University of Pennsylvania, April 15, 2005.
"Balkan Geopolitical Dynamics and Terrorism."
Second International NEXUS Conference, Central European University, Budapest, 4-7 June, 2004
"Regional Identities and Paradoxes of Globalization: Social Imagination and Visual Culture."
Panel Chair: Second International NEXUS Conference, Central European University, Budapest, 4-7 June, 2004
“Media, War and Terrorism.”
Central European University, Budapest, 4-7 June, 2004
"Gogol: A Shattered Sphinx"
Round Table, May 17, 2004, Central European University, Budapest
"Katherine the Great's Looking-GlaZ: Governmentality and Policemanship"
MLA (Modern Languages Association) Convention, Toronto, December 29, 1997.
"Fear Thy Neighbor! Love Thy Persecutor!"
AAASS (American Association of Advanced Slavic Studies) Convention, Boston, November, 1996.
Round table on Soviet paranoia, AAASS (American Association of Advanced Slavic Studies) Convention, Boston, November, 1996.
"Rational State and National Sentiments"
The International Association for Philosophy and Literature Annual Conference, Fairfax, 1996.
"Philosophy of the Common Cause: The Emergence of the Russian Rocketry and Space Doctrine."
ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) Annual Conference, Athens, March 17, 1995.
"Kafka/Foucault: The Penal Colony and the Chinese Wall: Tectonics of the Disciplinary Spaces."
MLA (Modern Languages Association) Convention, San Diego, December 30, 1994.
"Autocracy and Writing: Gogol and Chaadaev"
AATSEEL Annual Conference, San Diego, December 29, 1994.
"Bio-and-Social-engineering: Physiological Radicalism of the Russian Revolution"
MLA Convention, Toronto, December 1993.
"Permutatio Publica"
Critical Reflections on Modernity and Postmodernity, Society for the Humanities,
Cornell University, November 1992.
"Apocalipsis Transfiguris: Platonov Figures the End"
Conference in Comparative Literature, Central European University,
Prague, September 1992.
"Nikolai Fyodorov's Vertical Utopia"
Midwest Slavic Annual Conference, Columbus, Ohio, May 1991
"The Plot of Modernism and its Headquarters"
Modern Problems of Power and Culture, Inter University Center, Dubrovnik, October 1990
Professional Experience
2008 - Senior Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania
1996-08 Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania
1991-95 Teaching Assistant, University of Pennsylvania
1988-91 Research Fellow, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Art Studies
1976-77 Apprentice Journalist, Bulgarian National Radio
Memberships
Editorial Board, Foreign Policy (Bulgarian Language Edition), Sofia.
Editorial Board, Voices, Weekly Newspaper, Sofia.
Advisory Board, Center for Liberal Strategies, Sofia.
Founding Member, Balkan Civic Network, Sofia.
Founding Member, Espace Culture, Sofia.
Founding Member, Synthesis, Society of Scholars and Artists, Sofia.
Languages
English, Russian, Bulgarian