Associate Professor Elka Traykova

Associate Professor Elka Traykova, PhD is the Director of the Institute for Literature at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Bulgarian Literature, an expert in the history of literary periodicals and a researcher of literary polemics. She is the editor of volumes 2-5 of the Periodika i literatura [Periodicals and Literature] series, and the author of Balgarskite literaturni polemiki [The Bulgarian Literary Polemics]; she has also published academic treatises and articles on twentieth-century Bulgarian literary history.

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