OGNYAN KOVACHEV is Associate Professor of Comparative Literary History and Founding Co-director of the MA “Literature, Cinema and Visual Culture” Master’s Degree Program at the Faculty of Slavic Studies of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. He is the author of The Gothic Novel: Genealogy, Genre, Aesthetics, 2004, Literature and Identity: Transfigurations of Alterity and Literature and Identity: Transfigurations of Alterity. With many essays and articles in the fields of Comparative literature, Bulgarian Literature, Gothic Studies, Film Studies and Film Adaptation Studies, Literature and Nationalism and Translation Studies. Currently he is working on the monograph The Book and the Film in the Western Literary Canon in the area of Film Adaptation Studies.
