Lecturers

Teaching Appointments:

Lecturer, Eastern, Slavic, and German Studies Department, Boston College (1995- present) 

Visiting Lecturer, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University (2013, 2016)

Visiting Instructor and Examiner, Center for Language Study, Yale University (2001-2002)                

Language Examiner, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy,Tufts University (2002, 200,2009)                     

Visiting Professor, Department of Slavic and East European Studies, University of Alberta, Canada (1989 – 1993) 

Assistant Professor, Bulgarian Language Department, St. Kliment Ohridski University Sofia, Bulgaria(1982 – 1989)   

Research Grants:

2005 Teachers for the New Era Grant, BC School of Education

2004 Teaching, Advising & Mentoring Grant, Boston College                                                                                    

1993 & 1994 Canadian Council for Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grant

Broken Dialogs: Linguistic Separatism, Ethnic Nationalism, and Slavic Idealism. Paper, Slavic Conference 2013, Sts. Cyril and Methodius University, Veliko Turnovo

The Americans will Come: Slavic Studies in American context. Diplomatic Review, vol. “XXIII”: Globalization and Cross-Cultural Studies, Abagar, 2009

Bulgarian Ethnic Group in Canada, a Monograph on the Bulgarian settlement, culture, economic, religious, and political life, Encyclopedia "Peoples of Canada", Toronto University Press & Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 2000, 40p.

Discourse Functions of Demonstratives in Written Bulgarian Texts. Sofia University Annual Journal, 84, 1998: 134-144.

How Free is the Free Word Order in Slavic? Paper, Boston College Balkan Conference 1997.

Aspect and Volitional Modality in Bulgarian, Russian and English. Comparative Linguistics, 3-4, 1994:  77-80.

Perfective Present and Past Imperfect in Sequential Discourse. Language and Literature, 3-4, 1993: 73-77.

Founding Director of the BC Summer Program to Bulgaria