Boriana Alexandrova

I joined York’s Centre for Women’s Studies as Lecturer in September 2018. I was previously an Associate Lecturer in Modern Studies at the Department of English & Related Literature, as well as co-convenor of York’s MA in Medical History & Humanities with Prof. Sanjoy Bhattacharya (History). My specialisms include contemporary women’s writing and performance, 20th-21st century literary multilingualism and translation, including Irish and European modernism, global and postcolonial studies, and cross-disciplinary theories of embodiment. I work across several languages, including Russian, Bulgarian, English, German, and Italian. My work engages with a wide range of methodological approaches from disability theory and the medical humanities to feminist, queer, and cultural theory, ethics, and political activism.

I am a professional member of the Contemporary Women’s Writing Association and serve as a reviewer for several academic journals, including Medical History, CWS’s own Cultivate, and others. I served as Reviews Editor for Modernism/modernity from 2013 to 2016.