Bulgarian Community Center, Washington

Club Bulgaria, American University

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Poetry Reading

featuring

Dr. ALEXANDER SHURBANOV

Head of the Department of English and American Studies, University of Sofia

Poet and Translators of English Poetry

Language - Bulgarian and English .

Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2003
 7:00- 8:30 PM

American University
Mary Graydon Center Room 245
4400 Massachusetts Ave, NW

Washington, DC 20016

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Admission is FREE

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ALEXANDER SHURBANOV
(Born in Sofia, 5 April 1941)

CURRICULUM VITAE

ACADEMIC DEGREES:

M.A. in English Language and Literature, University of Sofia, 1966
Ph.D. in English literature, University of Sofia, 1972
Doctor of Philology (D.Phil.), Sofia, 1991
D.Litt. (honoris causa), University of Kent, Canterbury, 1990
D.Univ. (honoris causa), University of Surrey, 1993

ACADEMIC CAREER:

Assistant-Professor, Department of English Philology, University of Sofia, 1972-78
Associate-Professor, Department of English Philology, University of Sofia, 1978-95
Professor, Department of English and American Studies, University of Sofia, 1995 -

ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS:

Head of the Department of English Philology, University of Sofia, 1977-79
Dean of the Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology, University of Sofia, 1983-87
Head of the Department of English Philology, University of Sofia, 1989-93
Head of the Department of English and American Studies, University of Sofia, 1996 -

ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERSHIP AND POSTS

The European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) - Board Member, 1990-96
The Bulgarian Society for British Studies – Founding President, 1990-1995
The Association of Bulgarian Writers – Founding Vice-President, 1994-1996
The University Foundation of English and American Studies – Founding President, 1997-
The Three Seas Writers' and Translators' Council (an international organization – headquarters in Rhodes, Greece) – Founding President, 1997 -
The Union of Translators in Bulgaria – Board Member, 1978-1988
P.E.N International / The Bulgarian P.E.N. Center
The International Association of University Professors of English
The International Shakespeare Association
The English Association, Leicester, UK (Fellow)

COURSES TAUGHT
at Sofia and other Bulgarian and European universities:
- English Literature from the Beginnings to Romanticism
- English Literary Stylistics
- English Renaissance Drama: Major Genres
- English Renaissance Lyrical Poetry
- Shakespeare's Poetic Drama: Generic Characteristics
- Shakespeare's Drama on Stage and on Screen
- Introduction to Literary Translation

at the University of London (1970-71) and the University of California,
Los Angeles (1979-81):
- Bulgarian Literature in Translation
- Bulgarian Civilization
- Introduction to Bulgarian

PUBLICATIONS

I. LITERARY CRITICISM:

- Renaissance Humanism and Shakespeare’s Lyrical Poetry, Sofia, 1980
- Between Pathos and Irony: Christopher Marlowe and the Genesis of Renaissance Drama, Sofia, 1992
- Painting Shakespeare Red: An East-European Appropriation (in collaboration with B. Sokolova), Delaware University Press, Newark and London, 2001
- The Reception of European Literature through Translation in Bulgaria (co-edited with V. Trendafilov), Sofia, 2001
- Poetics of the English Renaissance, Sofia 2002.

II. LITERARY WORKS:

- The Third Hand. Poetry, Sofia, 1977
- Forgotten Clouds. Poetry, Plovdiv, 1985
- A Place for Man. Poetry, Sofia, 1987
- The Land of Living Eternity. A Travellogue, Sofia, 1990
- To a Tree Owner (in Hush, You Nightingales: Four Bulgarian Poets), Translated by Don D. Wilson, Singular Speech Press, Canton, Connecticut, 1993
- The Flowers of Frost. Poetry, Sofia, 1994
- Whims. Essays, Sofia, 1994
- The Ring of Time. Selected Poetry, Sofia, 1997
- Black Box. Essays, Sofia, 1998
- The Sleep of Reason. Essays, Sofia, 1999
- Beware: Cats. Poetry (Bulgarian-English bilingual edition), Sofia, 2001
- Frost-Flowers. Poetry (Bulgarian-English bilingual edition), Princeton, NJ, 2002

TRANSLATIONS:

- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, Sofia, 1970, 1980, 1994
- English Renaissance Theatre (an anthology of poetic dramas by Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, John Webster and Thomas Middleton in Bulgarian), Sofia, 1975)
- John Milton, Paradise Lost, Sofia, 1981
- Adrian Mitchell, Ride the Nightmare. Selected Poems, Sofia, 1981
- Ted Hughes, Cave Birds. Selected Poems (in collaboration with V. Trendafilov), Sofia, 1983
- Rabindranath Tagore, Selected Poems, Sofia, 1985
- Dylan Thomas, And Death Shall Have No Dominion. Selected Poems, Sofia, 1992
- English Poetry (an anthology of poets from the fourteenth until the twentieth century in Bulgarian), Sofia, 1995
- John Updike, Gertrude and Claudius, Sofia, 2002