Faculty of Slavic Studies, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski

Address: St. Kliment Ohridski, 15
Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd., 1504 Sofia, Bulgaria
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E-mail: kijanev@slav.uni-sofia.bg

Website: https://slav.uni-sofia.bg/en/faculty-of-slavic-studies/

The institutional beginnings of Bulgarian Polish studies are linked to the inauguration of Sofia University named after St. Kliment Ohrid in 1888, where Slavic philology and history were taught. In the first half of the 20th century, the leading representative of Bulgarian Polish studies and promoter of Polish-Bulgarian relations was Professor Boyan Penev.

Wykładowcy i studenci polonistyki z przedstawicielami Instytutu Polskiego i Ambasady Polski

Wykładowcy z katedry językoznawstwa słowiańskiego w Ambasadzie Polski

In the second half of the 20th century, two separate faculties were established in place of the Faculty of Philology and History (1950). Starting from the 1953–1954 academic year, three new programs emerged within Slavic Philology: Bulgarian Philology, Russian Philology, and Slavic Philology, which included Polish, Czech, and Serbo-Croatian studies. Since that year, two departments have existed (the Department of Slavic Literatures and the Department of Slavic Linguistics). Among the lecturers associated with Polish studies at Sofia University, one can list scholars, translators, and promoters of Polish culture in Bulgaria such as: Ivan Lekov, Kujo Kuev, Bojan Biolchev, Panayot Karagyozov, Kalina Bachneva, Lidia Świerczek, Iskra Likomanova, and Ivanka Gugułanova.

Staff:

Department of Slavic Literatures (website)

Prof. Panayot Karagyozov, DrSc
Senior Assistant Prof. Kristiyan Yanev, PhD
Senior Assistant Prof. Venesa Nacheva, PhD

Department of Slavic Linguistics (website)

Assos. Prof. Diliyana Dencheva, PhD
Senior Assistant Prof. Vitka Deleva, PhD
Senior Assistant Prof. Zhana Stancheva, PhD
Assistant Prof. Vasil Geshev
Żaneta Pawłowicz, PhD (lektor)
Dorota Fater

Polish studies at Sofia University is part of Slavic Philology and is one of five profiles (along with Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, and Serbian and Croatian). Slavic Philology offers a 5-year Master's degree (integrated studies after high school), and the Faculty of Slavic Philologies is also accredited to provide doctoral studies (including the history of Slavic literatures and Slavic languages, and translation theory and practice).

Information about the Slavic Philology program: https://slav.uni-sofia.bg/en/slavic-philology/

Doctoral programs: link

As part of their studies, students learn the Polish language, descriptive grammar, Polish literature and culture, and written and oral translation (consecutive and simultaneous). Polish language courses (in 10 parts over 5 years) and Polish linguistics (phonetics, morphology, word formation, syntax, semantics, stylistics, pragmatics, historical grammar, communication skills) are conducted by lecturers from the Department of Slavic Linguistics. Lecturers from the Department of Slavic Literatures conduct classes on the historical and cultural realities of Poland and the history of Polish literature (from the Middle Ages to the present, over 4 semesters).

Course syllabi: link

Polonists from Sofia University participate in numerous research projects and initiatives at home and abroad: including the preparation of a volume on Slavic literatures (2002) from the multi-volume series Translation Reception of European Literatures in Bulgaria (a project of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences); the project Reception of Slavic Literatures after 1989 in Bulgaria and Bulgarian Literature in Slavic Countries (2014–2019, link); the preparation of Polish-themed issues of the "Literary Gazette" (Литературен вестник) – edited since 2018 by Kristiyan Yanev (Sofia University) and Margreta Grigorova (Veliko Tarnovo University); and the organization of the biennial International Slavic Conference (Международни славистични четения).