Plamen Antov is a doctor of science and a professor at the Institute of Literature at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He is the author of more than 200 scientific publications on a wide range of thematic fields and several monographic studies: Yavorov-Botev: Modernism and Myth. The Atavistic Memory of Language (2009), The Poetry of the 1990s. Bulgarian and Postmodern (2010), Bulgarian Postmodernism of XXI-XIX Centuries. Towards the Philosophy of Bulgarian Literature (2016), as well as the literary-philosophical comparative research works Emilian Stanev's Animalistic Prose. Biopolitical and Philosophical Problems (Vol. 1, 2019) and Before the Unattainable: Emilian Stanev and Martin Heidegger (Vol. 2, 2021). His most recent book is 'To Chicago and Back' Beyond the Travelogue. To the Genealogy of Bai Ganyu (2021).

As the head of the scientific project "Literature and Geography", he is the author of the collections Our Americas 1: Latin America and Bulgarian Literature, Bulgarian Traces in Latin America (2015), Our Americas 2: The USA as a Metaphor of Modernity. Bulgarian-American Reflections (XX–XXI Centuries) (2017, in collective) and Magic Realism (2019).

Poet and writer, author of books of poetry, short stories, fragments, plays; winner of awards for poetry and drama.

Alexandra Antonova is a doctor of Bulgarian literature and associate professor at the Institute of Literature at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, a specialist in new Bulgarian literature. She is the author of the monographs Chavdar Mutafov - in Search of the Artistic Image (2011) and Konstantin Konstantinov: Possibilities of Recognition and Self-Recognition (2015), as well as separate studies on the work of Chavdar Mutafov, Dimitar Dimov, Nikola Vaptsarov, Svetoslav Minkov, Boyan Danovski, Boris Hristov, Kiril Krastev, Boris Shivachev, Zlatomir Zlatanov, Mihalaki Georgiev, etc., on reviews and scientific-applied articles. Her scientific interests are focused on the poetics of objectivism, as well as on the history and reception of Bulgarian literary criticism. Editor and compiler of the scientific collections The Spaces of the Word. Collection in Honor of Svetlozar Igov in two volumes (2012), Pencho Slaveikov. 150 Years from his Birth (2017), Book about Ivan Metodiev (2018), My Ports are Gone. New Research on the Work of Ivan Peychev from the Conferences on the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Poet's Birth Held in Shumen and Sofia (2018), Dimitar Talev - the Code of History and the Labyrinths of the Present in Literature (2019). Bulgarian Literary Criticism - Positions and Contexts (2020).

Head of the project "Current Readings of New and Contemporary Bulgarian Literature" at the New and Contemporary Bulgarian Literature Section of the Institute for Literature - BAS (2015), as well as the projects "Digital Library 'Bulgarian Literary Criticism' (2018) and 'Bulgarian Literature for children and adolescents XX–XXI centuries" (2021), financed by the Scientific Research Fund.

Andriana Spasova is a doctor of Bulgarian literature and chief assistant in the    section Literature of the Bulgarian Revival at the Institute for Literature at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, as well as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Program "Young Scientists and Postdoctoral Fellows" with the theme of the project Reception and Digitization of the Unexplored Manuscript Legacy of Nayden Gerov (2019–2021). Ancient Reminiscences in the Literature of Bulgarian National Revival (2020) is her first scientific book, defended as a doctoral thesis, which received second prize in the competition for Young Scientists (2021). Her research interests are in the field of Bulgarian Revival literature, the first receptions of ancient genres and models, the problems of national identity and cultural memory, the handwritten textbooks and letters of Nayden Gerov. http://ilit.bas.bg/bg/members/andriana-spasova.

Bozhana Filipova is a PhD in Western European literature and a senior assistant at the    section    Comparative Literary Studies at the Institute for Literature. She defended her doctoral thesis on Transformations of the Concepts of "New Mythology" and "Fragment" in the Novel "Ulysses" by James Joyce. He works in the field of literary history and theory, specializing in German romanticism and European modernism. Beyond literary studies, her scholarly interests lie in classical German and contemporary philosophy.

Georgi Iliev (1978) is a doctor and chief assistant in literary theory. He works in the Theory of Literature section at the Institute for Literature at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. His interests are in the field of political philosophy and social theory, he defended his doctoral thesis on The Relationship between Epistemology and Ethics in Literary Theory after the Frankfurt School. Leads exercises as a part-time teacher of Introduction to Literary Theory at SU "St. Kliment Ohridski".

Nikolay Genchev Genov is a doctor of literary theory and chief assistant at the Institute of Literature at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. In 2017, he graduated with a Bachelor Degree in Bulgarian Philology at the University of St. Kliment Ohridski, and in 2018 - Master's Program "Literary Theory" at the same university. He will defend his dissertation in 2022 at the Faculty of Slavic Philology. His research interests are in science fiction, digital media and video games. He is the author of the book The Virtual Man: An Experience in Phantomics (2022). His writings have been published in various magazines, anthologies and electronic platforms.