Anna Alexieva

Anna Aleksieva is an Associate Professor, PhD, in the Bulgarian National Revival Literature Department at the Institute for Literature, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Her research interests encompass 19th- and 20th-century Bulgarian literature, the literary canon, marginalized authors and texts, cultural studies, the construction of "grand" historical narratives and the national heroic pantheon, as well as official, banal, and subcultural nationalism.

In 2013, she received the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Award for Young Scholars "Prof. Marin Drinov". Since 2024, she has been Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Literaturna Misal (Literary Thought). She is a member of the Bulgarian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Academic Circle for Comparative Literature (ACCL).

Monographs:

• "Bulgarian Poetry from the 1840s and 1850s: Roles of the Subject" (2012)
• "Hristo Botev: Ideological Modeling of the Heroic Image" (2025)

Co-edited Volumes:

• "Culture, Identities, Doubts: Volume in Honor of Prof. Nikolay Aretov, D.Sc." (2016)
• "The Past of the Balkans: Approaches and Visualizations (18th–19th Century)" (2018)
• "Pleasures and Prohibitions" (2018)
• "Books as Events in Europe and the Ottoman Empire (17th–19th Century)" (2020)
• "Progress and Prejudices in the 18th–19th Century" (2025), among others