Alexander Shurbanov
UTSA Brackenridge lecture series presents Bulgarian expert on English literature
(Sept. 18, 2003)--The University of Texas at San Antonio will present two lectures Sept. 25 and 26 by Bulgarian literary critic Alexander Shurbanov as the George W. Brackenridge Distinguished Visiting Professor.
Shurbanov will speak on "The Fates of Poetry in Post-Communist Bulgaria" at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 25, in the Business Building University Room (2.06.04) at the UTSA 1604 Campus.
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RSS FeedsHe will speak on "The Challenges of Translating Literary Works from English into Bulgarian" at 2 p.m., Friday, Sept. 26, also in the University Room.
Shurbanov, who was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1941, has written five books on English Renaissance literature. He is professor of English and American studies at the University of Sofia and author of a dozen books of poems and essays.
He translated Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales," Milton's "Paradise Lost," a number of poetic dramas by Shakespeare's contemporaries and selected poetry of Dylan Thomas, among others.
Throughout his career, Shurbanov has taught courses in English Renaissance literature, Bulgarian literature in translation and Bulgarian civilization. He earned an M.A. in English language and literature, and Ph.D. and D.Phil. degrees in English literature at the University of Sofia.
Early in his career he taught at the University of London and UCLA, and began teaching at the University of Sofia in 1978. Since 1996, he has been head of the University of Sofia Department of English and American Studies.
Shurbanov is a member of the Association of Bulgarian Writers, the Union of Translators in Bulgaria, the Bulgarian Society of British Studies, the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) and The Three Seas Writers' and Translators' Council (Rhodes, Greece).
The Brackenridge lecture series is supported by the George W. Brackenridge Foundation. The presentations are free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Venetta Williams, Department of English, Classics and Philosophy, at 210-458-4376.