PERSONAL DATA:

• Born in Plovdiv in 1974.
• Married.

EDUCATION:

Higher:

• St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, Bulgaria:

- English Syntax, PhD student.

• Paissii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria:

- English Studies - Linguistics and Translation, MA;
- English Studies, BA;
- Russian Studies, MA.

Secondary:

• Ivan Vazov Foreign Language High School, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

JOB EXPERIENCE:

Current:

• Full-time lecturer in English language:

- University of Food Technology, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

Past:

• Part-time assistant professor in English Syntax:

- St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, Bulgaria.

• Teacher of English and translator from/to English:

- Nadezhda Language Centre, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

• Part-time lecturer in English language:

- Agricultural University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria;
- University of Food Technology, Plovdiv, Bulgaria;
- Agricultural College, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

• Teacher of English:

- Dimiter Dimov Primary School, Plovdiv, Bulgaria;
- Hristo Smirnenski Night School, Plovdiv, Bulgaria;
- Aleko Konstantinov Primary School, Plovdiv, Bulgaria;
- Children’s Language University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

• Translator from/to English:

- GUN Agency, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

• Contrastive Linguistics;
• Translation Theory and Practice;
• Foreign Language Teaching.

THE OATH OF THE ALUMNUS:

I, the alumnus of The Paissii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv, becoming one of the Bulgarian intellectuals, SWEAR:

• To protect the name of the University that helped me discover the world of science;

• To defend my professional training with dignity;

• To apply my academic knowledge only for the well-being, the prosperity and the humanization of the world;

• To contribute to the promotion of the human being as a higher criterion of every scientific and social activity;

• To confirm personally and in society the basic principles of human morality;

• Being faithful to my nation, to contribute with my work to its better future;

• To be a worthy citizen of my Mother Country!

I SWORE!

Nadezhda P. Todorova