Alexander Shurbanov

Professor of English Literature,

University of Sofia (retired)

 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, University of Sofia, 1991
 
 - D.Litt. (honoris causa), University of Kent, Canterbury,
 1990
 - D.Univ. (honoris causa), University of Surrey, London,
 1993
 
 ACADEMIC CAREER:
 
 
 - Professor, Department of English and American Studies,
 University of Sofia, 1995 – 2009
 - Professor, Department of English, Wyźsza Szkoła
 Umiejętności w Kielcach, Poland, 2007 - 2011 
 
 - Associate-Professor, Department of English Philology,
 University of Sofia, 1978-95
 - Assistant-Professor, Department of English Philology,
 University of Sofia, 1972-78
 
 ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS:
 
 - Head of the Department of English and American Studies,
 University of Sofia, 1996–2003, 1989-93, 1977-79
 - Dean of the Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology, 
 University of Sofia, 1983-87
 
 OTHER POSTS:
 
 - President of the Bulgarian Society for British Studies and  
 member of the Board of the European Society for the Study 
  of English (ESSE), 1990-96
 - Vice-President of the Association of Bulgarian Writers,
 1994-96
 - President of the Three Seas Writers’ and Translators’
 Council, Rhodes, Greece, 1997-2002 
 - President of the Friends of India Club, since 2010
 
 MEMBERSHIP IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS:
 
 - The European Society for the Study of English
 - The English Association (Fellow)  
 - The International Shakespeare Association
  - The European Shakespeare Research Association 
 - PEN International
 
 COURSES TAUGHT
 
 at the University of Sofia (and at other Bulgarian
 Universities), 1972 - :
 - English Literature from the Beginnings to the Restoration
 - English Literary Stylistics
 - English Renaissance Drama: Major Genres
 - English Renaissance Lyrical Poetry
 - Shakespeare's Poetic Drama: Generic Characteristics
 - Shakespeare's Drama on the Stage and on Films
 - Translation and Editing of Literary Texts
 
 at the University of London (1970-71) and the
 University of California, Los Angeles (1979-81):
 - Bulgarian Literature in Translation
 - Bulgarian Civilisation
 - Introduction to the Bulgarian Language 
 
 at the University at Albany, SUNY (2004):
 - The Lyrical Element in Shakespeare’s Drama
 - The British Poetic Tradition
 
  LECTURES GIVEN
 
 at the Universities of London, Sheffield, Leeds, and 
 Roehampton (UK); 
 Westminster College and Brigham Young University, Utah; the 
 University of Texas, San Antonio; Truman State University,
 Kirksville, MO; The North-Western University, Chicago; the 
 University at Albany, NY; Fitchburg College and Boston
 University, MA; The American University, Washington DC 
 (USA);
 the Aristotle University, Thessaloniki (Greece);
 the University of Zaragoza; Complutence University,
 Madrid(Spain);
 Saarbrucken University (Germany);
 the Universities of Lisbon, Braga, Coimbra (Portugal);
 Uppsala University (Sweden); 
 the University of New Delhi, the Hindu University of 
 Benares, the University of Calcutta, the Visva-Bharati
 University (India) 
 
 
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
 
 I. Literary Criticism:
  
 - Renaissance Humanism and Shakespeare's Sonnets, Sofia:
 Naouka i Izkustvo, 1980
 - Between Pathos and Irony: Christopher Marlowe and the
 Genesis of Renaissance Drama, Sofia University Press, 1992
 - The Reception of European Literature through Translation
 in Bulgaria: English Literature (with V. Trendafilov,
 eds.), Sofia: The Prof. Marin Drinov Academic Press, 2000 
 - Painting Shakespeare Red: An East-European Appropriation
 (with B. Sokolova), Newark: University of Delaware Press,
 London: Associated University Presses, 2001 
 - Ancient Greek and Byzantine Literature in the Modern World
 (with Aloi Sideri, eds.), Rhodes: Agra Publications, 2001
 - Poetics of the English Renaissance, Sofia University
 Press, 2002
 - Marco Mincoff, Studies in English Renaissance Drama (ed.),
 Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2009
 - Shakespeare’s Lyricized Drama, Newark: University of
 Delaware Press, London: Associated University Presses,
 2010  
 
 II. Translations of literary works from English
 into Bulgarian, with introductions and
 commentaries:
 
 - Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, Sofia, 1970, 1980,
 1994, 2008
 - The Theatre of the English Renaissance (an anthology of
 Elizabethan and Jacobean poetic drama by Marlowe, Jonson,
 Middleton, Dekker, Webster), Sofia, 1975
 - John Milton, Paradise Lost, Sofia, 1981, 2008
 - Adrian Mitchell, Ride the Nightmare, Sofia, 1981
 - Ted Hughes, Cave Birds, Selected Poems (with V.
 Trendafilov), Sofia, 1983 
 - Rabindranath Tagore, Poetry, Sofia, 1985, 2009
 - Dylan Thomas, And Death Shall Have No Dominion: Selected
 Poems, Sofia, 1993
 - English Poetry (An Anthology of Seven Centuries), Sofia,
 1995
 - John Updike, Gertrude and Claudius, Sofia, 2003
 - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Sofia, 2006 
- William Shakespeare, The Great Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, 1012
 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poetry and Prose, 2013
 
 III. Creative Writings:
 
 A. Books of Poetry:
 - The Third Hand, Sofia, 1977
 - Forgotten Clouds, Plovdiv, 1983
 - A Place for Man, Sofia, 1987
 - Flowers of Frost, Sofia, 1994
 - The Ring of Time, Sofia, 1997
 - Frost-Flowers (Bilingual Bulgarian-English Collection),
 Princeton, NJ, 2001
 - Beware: Cats (Bilingual Bulgarian-English Collection),
 Sofia, 2001
 - Dove at My Window, Sofia, 2006
 - Reflections. Selected Poems, 2011
 
 B. Books of Essays:
 - The Land of Living Eternity, Sofia, 1991
 - Whims, Sofia, 1994
 - The Black Box, Sofia, 1998
 - The Sleep of Reason, Sofia, 1999
 - The University at Albany and Everything Else, Sofia, 2005
 - Marginal Notes, Selected Prose, 2011
 
AWARDS:
 - The Honorary Medal of Sofia University 
 - The Hristo G. Danov National Prize for overall contribution to culture
 - The ASKEER Award for contribution to the art of theatre
 
FOR CONTACT:
 
Prof. Dr. Alexander Shurbanov
Department of English and American Studies
University of Sofia, 
Boulevard Tsar Osvoboditel 15
Sofia 1504, Bulgaria
email: ashurbanov(at)yahoo.com