Nevena Panova

Nevena Panova, born in Sofia (1974). 

Academic details: Master’s degree in Classical Philology (1999) and Bachelor’s degree in Hungarian Language and Literature from the University of Sofia (1999), and later Master’s degree in Philosophy from the New Bulgarian University (2019); PhD degree in Ancient Greek Literature (2004: on Plato’s dialogue form); Associate Professor at the Department of Classics (2013). 

Teaching experience: courses in Ancient Greek language and authors (philosophical prose, historiography, Greek lyric), Ancient Greek literature (to undergraduate and postgraduate students), Academic writing, Ancient Greek for non-experts, etc.

Research interests: history and theory of Ancient Greek literature, philosophical prose (Plato, two monographs about: 2005, 2013), reception of Antiquity in Bulgarian literature and culture; theory and practice of translation (translator of Plato’s Laws; some of Plutarch’s Lives and Aelian’s Various Histories, as well as of several key studies on ancient culture, from modern languages). 

The Panorama adventure: Member of the Bulgarian Translators’ Union (2014), and (suddenly, to a degree, and dream-like, on the other side): editor-in-chief (2018) of its Publishing house Panorama (est. 1980), focused on representing high-quality (sometimes boutique?) literary works (mainly contemporary) in Bulgarian translation from variety of languages, both “bigger” and “smaller” ones (ca. 6–7 publication per year).  

P.S. Master thesis on Homer’s view of the sea (1999) – a study to be continued, and devoted to the ever-lasting love for the sea as a natural phenomenon, but also as an unique art & culture background, with the good example of Burgas, too.