Professor in History of Modern Culture and Director of Cultural Center of the University of Sofia. His research interests are in the spheres of reading research, cultural history of communist totalitarianism, post-colonial studies and construction of identities. He published a book on the history of Bulgarian literature and another two on cultural history of the transition period in Eastern Europe; recently he published the monograph “The Quarrels about Reading” (2013,Sofia: Ciela, in Bulgarian). He was editor of the collective volume “Post-Theory, Games and Discursive Resistance”, and the collective volume “Rules” and“Roles”. Fluid Institutions, Hybrid Roles and Identities in East European Transformation Processes (1989–2005).Many of his essays are translated in English, German, French, Dutch, Ukrainian, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Serbian and Macedonian languages. Since 2000 he has been a leader of several international research projects dedicated to the Balkan cultures, reading problems and autobiographies.
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