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).