Albena Bakratcheva

Albena Bakratcheva (Bulgarian: Албена Бакрачева) (born 3 July 1961 in Sofia) is Bulgarian Americanist, best known for her work on American Transcendentalism.
Albena Bakratcheva, D.Litt., is Professor of American Studies at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, New Bulgarian University, Sofia.

Degrees

Albena Bakratcheva received her master's degree in Bulgarian and English literature from the St Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia in 1984. She defended her PhD thesis on 18th century British Novel and late 19th century Bulgarian Fiction in 1995, and in 2007 was awarded a higher doctorate (D.Litt.) for her dissertation on The Artistic Discourse of American Transcendentalism.

Academic career

The Thoreau Socyety Award for Distinguished Service, 2014

Albena Bakratcheva has taught at the Department of English, American University in Bulgaria (AUBG), Blagoevgrad (1995–1996), the Department of Theory of Literature, University of Sofia (1995–1996), the Department of Foreign Languages, South-West University "Neofit Rilski", Blagoevgrad (1997–2002), and the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, New Bulgarian University, Sofia (2002-current).
Albena Bakratcheva has specialized at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies. Freie Universität Berlin (1992), the State University of New York Geneseo (1993–94) as a Fulbright fellow, and the 1999 Summer Institute on Contemporary American Literature. University of Louisville, Kentucky.

Since 2008 Prof. Albena Bakratcheva is Erasmus-Lecturer of American Literature at the Dipartimento di Lingue e letterature moderne. Università degli studi di Macerata, Italia.

Administrative career

Since 2002 Albena Bakratcheva is Chair of the American and British Studies Program, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, New Bulgarian University.