Интервю с Даниела Колева и Александър Кьосев
Interview with Daniela Koleva and Alexander Kiossev

Summary/Abstract: Alexander Kiossev, PhD, is Professor in History of Modern Culture and Director of the Culture Center of Sofi a University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. His research interests are in the sphere of research on reading, cultural history of communist totalitarianism, post-colonial studies and construction of identity. Recently he published the monograph The Quarrels about Reading (2013, in Bulg.). He was editor of the collective volume “Rules” and “Roles”: Fluid Institutions, Hybrid Roles and Identities in East European Transformation Processes (1989 - 2005) (co-edited with Petya Kabakchieva, 2009) and Post-Theory, Games and Discursive Resistance (1995). Since 2000, he has headed several international and national research projects dedicated to the Balkan cultures, reading problems and autobiographies about the period of communism.Daniela Koleva is Associate Professor at the Department for History and Theory of Culture, Sofi a University. Her research interests are in the fi elds of oral history and anthropology of socialism and post-socialism, biographical and cultural memory, biographical methods, social constructivism. She has published a monograph on the ‘normal life course’ in communist Bulgaria: Biography and Normality (2002, in Bulg.) and a number of book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed international journals. Last (co)edited volumes include: Love under Socialism: Models, Images, Taboos (2015, in Bulg.); Death under Socialism: Heroics and Post-heroics (2013, in Bulg.); Negotiating Normality: Everyday Lives in Socialist Institutions (2012); 20 Years after the Collapse of Communism: Expectations, Achievements and Disillusions of 1989 (2011, ed. with N. Hayoz and L. Jesien).

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