Dr. Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova


Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova
  • Associate Professor
  • Language Coordinator, Czech and Polish
  • Communism in the 20th and 21st c. West Slavic Prose | Post-1989 West Slavic Bildungsroman | Memory Studies | Slavic literary Baroque
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Contact Info

Wescoe Hall, Room 2141

Education

Ph.D. in Comparative Slavic Literature, Sofia University “Saint Kliment Ochridski”, 2006, Bulgaria

Research

Research interests:

  • Communism in the 20th and 21st century West Slavic prose
  • Post-1989 West Slavic Bildungsroman
  • Memory studies
  • Slavic literary Baroque

Teaching

Teaching interests:

  • Polish and Czech language
  • Language teaching methodology
  • West Slavic Literature
  • Culture and Film

Selected Publications

“The Rehabilitation of Vulnerability in Yana Borissova’s Works,” In Полемики и избори. Сборник с доклади от конференция Петнадесети славистични четения [Polemics and Choices. Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Slavic Studies Conference, vol. 2, Sofia: Sofia University Press, 2024]

“The Reconciliatory Potential of Objects in Stefan Chwin’s Novel Death in Danzig,” Transit 14:1 (2023): 74-86.

“Body, Sexuality and Passive Victimhood in the Post-1989 Reimagining of the Polish City of Wałbrzych” East European Politics, Societies and Cultures 34.4 (2020): 783-801.

 Coming of Age Under Martial Law: The Initiation Novels of Poland’s Last Communist Generation (Rochester, NY: Rochester University Press, 2015).

“The Grandmother as Political Actor in post-1989 Polish Initiation Novels” Forum for Modern Language Studies 47.2 (2011): 182-196.

“Obraz Matki-Polki w polskiej powieści inicjacyjnej po 1989 roku” In Polonistyka bez granic. Materiały z IV Kongresu Polonistyki Zagranicznej, tom 1, Krakow: Universitas, 2011. [Polish Studies without Borders. Contributions to the 4th International Congress of Polonists. Vol. 1] Eds. Władysław Miodunka, Ryszard Nycz, and Tomasz Kunz, 447-453.

“Voluntary Social Marginalization as a Survival Strategy in Polish Post-Communist Accounts of Childhood.” The Sarmatian Review 29.1 (2009): 1435-1444.

Grants & Other Funded Activity

External: Czech Academy of Sciences and Institute of Czech Literature, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, Imre Kertesz Kolleg Jena Research Fellowship

Internal: New Faculty General Research Fund Award, Center for Teaching Excellence, Hall Center Research Fellowship