Angelina Ilieva

My general interests include performativity, representation, and identity; the ethics of art, the political dimension of esthetic experience. Most specifically, I am interested in the role of trauma and sublimity in the emotional power of national or other identities.

Work with Students

I have advised thesis and research projects on Southeastern Europe- from national identity history narratives and self-representations in political writings to representations of gender performance in literature, creative performance project based on folklore, to comparative analysis of narrative plotting of death in magic realist writings.

• "Identity Narratives Unraveled: the Bulgarian Film Mission London,” Judith Deutsch Kornblatt, ed. American Contributions to the 16th International Congress of Slavists, Belgrade, 2018. v. 2; Literature. Bloomington, IN: Slavica, (2018): 103-119.
• “Returning the Gaze in Milcho Manchevski’s Before the Rain,” Balkanistica 29 (2016): 99-121.

• ​​​​​Strangers to Ourselves: Émigré Literature and Film
• States of Surveillance
• The Shadows of Living Things: The Writings of Mikhail Bulgakov
• The Burden of History: The Nation and Its Lost Paradise
• Balkan Folklore
• Imaginary Worlds: the Fantastic and Magic Realism in Russia and South Eastern Europe
• Returning the Gaze: the Balkans, the West, and the Rest
• Poetics of Gender in the Balkans: Wounded Men, Sworn Virgins, Eternal Mothers
• The Brighter Side of the Balkans: Humor and Satire in Literature and Film
• Nation and Narration in Southeastern Europe
• All levels of Bulgarian Language