Alexander Shurbanov#
| Membership Number: | 5145 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BULGARIA |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 Professor Emeritus, University of Sofia
- 1995 - 2009 Professor, Department of English and American Studies, University of Sofia
- 1978 - 1995 Associate Professor, Department of English Philology, University of Sofia
- 1972 - 1978 Assistant-Professor, Department of English Philology, University of Sofia
- 1996 - 2003, 1989 - 1993, 1977 - 1979 Head of the Department of English and American Studies, University of Sofia
- 1983 - 1987 Dean of the Faculty of Classical and Modern Philologies, University of Sofia
- 1997 - 2002 Founding President of the Three Seas Writers’ and Translators’ Council, Rhodes, Greece
- 1990 - 1996 Founding President of the Bulgarian Society for British Studies and member of the Board of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE)
Fields of Scholarship
- Shakespearean studies
- English Renaissance and post-Renaissance literature
- Literary translation
- Literary reception
- Literary stylistics
- Comparative literature
Honours and Awards
- 2016 The Portal Kultura Special Prize for Notable Achievements in Poetry and Translation
- 2014 Inclusion in the Golden Fund of Bulgarian Science (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
- 2013 The Honorary Askeer Award for Contribution to the Theatre Arts (Bulgarian Academy of Drama)
- 2013 Peregrinations of the Text: Reading, Translation, Rewriting. Essays in Honour of Alexander Shurbanov, Sofia University Press
- 2007 The H.G. Danov National Lifetime Achievement Award for Overall Contribution to Culture
- 2001 The Sofia University Honorary Medal with Blue Ribbon
- 2001 Renaissance Refractions: Essays in Honour of Alexander Shurbanov, Sofia University Press
- 1999 - 2005 Exchange scholarship for outstanding Sofia University M.A. students granted by the University of Roehampton, UK, in Prof. Shurbanov's name and under his supervision
- 1993 D.Univ. (honoris causa), University of Surrey, London
- 1990 D.Litt. (honoris causa), University of Kent, Canterbury
- 1974 The Sts Cyril and Methodius First Degree Order
