Remembering the Past, Creating the Present

teaches at the University of Notre Dame (USA) in England. She has published extensively on European Shakespeare and performance. With Kirilka Stavreva, she has co-authored the second edition of The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare in Performance, Manchester University Press, 2023) and the essay cluster Operation Shakespeare in Post-Communist Bulgaria (Toronto Slavic Quarterly, 2017). She has co-authored, with Alexander Shurbanov, Painting Shakespeare Red, An East-European Perspective (University of Delaware Press, 2001). She is the author of Shakespeare’s Romances as Interrogative Texts (Edwin Mellen Press, 1992) and The Merchant of Venice (Humanities EBooks, 2008). With Janice Valls-Russell she has co-edited Shakespeare’s Others in 21st-century European Performance, The Merchant of Venice and Othello (Arden, 2022); with Nicoleta Cinpoes, a cluster of articles on the Tempest (Shakespeare Bulletin Vol. 29, No. 3, 2011); with Evgenia Pancheva, Renaissance Refractions, Essays in Honour of Alexander Shurbanov (Sofia University Press, 2001), and with Michael Hattaway and Derek Roper, Shakespeare in the New Europe (Sheffield Academic Press, 1994). Her articles have appeared in numerous journals and essay collections.