Officers of the Bulgarian Studies Association

Vice President: Anissava Miltenova

Professor Anissava Miltenova is Head of the Department of Old Bulgarian Literature at the Institute of Literature, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (1999-present) and President of the BAS Executive Council for Bulgarian Studies Abroad (1995-present). She specializes in medieval Slavic studies, focusing on text transmission in Slavia Orthodoxa; the macrostructure of medieval Slavic miscellanies; apocryphal and popular literature in the Byzantine-Slavonic tradition; and computer-supported processing of medieval Slavic manuscripts. She initiated the project “Repertorium of the Balkan Cyrillic Manuscripts (encoding with computer tools)” (since 1995).

Selected books:

• Erotapokriseis. Sachinenijata ot kratki v’prosi i otgovori v starobalgarskata literatura. [Erotapokriseis. Works of Short Questions and Responses in Old Bulgarian Literature]. Sofia, 2004.
• Editor, Istorija na b’lgarskata srednovekovna literatura [History of Bulgarian Medieval literature]. Sofia 2008.

Selected articles:

• "Problems of Old Bulgarian Translation of the Skazanie za Sibyla". – Ètudes balkaniques, N 3-4, 1992, 72-76.
• “Slovo za Antihrista” – edin malko poznat balgarski apokrif. – Palaeobulgarica, XVII, 1993, 4, 59-71.
• "Computer-Aided Analysis of the Macrostructure and Typology of Medieval Slavic Miscellanies." – In: Computer Processing of Medieval Slavic Manuscripts. First International Conference, Blagoevgrad, 24-28 July 1995. Proceedings. Sofia, 1995, 129-139.
• "Medieval Apocalyptic Texts in the Context of Bulgarian Cultural Anthropology". – In: Balkanistica.Special Millennial Issue. 13, 2000, 105–112.
• "A Typology of Miscellanies with an Inconstant Macrostructure for Computer-Assisted Analysis". – In: Medieval Slavic Manuscripts and SGML: Problems and Perspectives. Sofia, 2000, 231–264.
• The Source of One Early Slavonic Erotapocriseis: Greek or Latin? – In: Medieval Christian Europe: East and West. Traditions, Values, Communications. Sofia, 2002, 263–273.
• "Littérature apocryphe bogomile et pseudo-bogomile dans la Bulgare médiévale." – Slavica Occitania, 16, Toulouse, 2003, 37–53.
• Metadata and Electronic Catalogs of Slavic Manuscripts: A Multilingual Web-Based Terminological Resource for Medieval Slavic Studies. – Scripta & eScripta, 6, 2008, 83–104.

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