Office address: Sofia University, Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology,
15 Tzar Osvoboditel Blvd., Sofia 1504, Bulgaria.
Tel.: +3592 930 83 41
Fax: +3592 846 51 43
Email:
Education
Secondary Education
National Classical Lyceum for Ancient Languages and Culture - "Constantine
- Cyril the Philosopher" (1981 - 1986)
Higher Education:
University of Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridski", Faculty of Classical
and Modern Languages, Department of Classics (1986 - 1991). Specialization
in Late Roman Literature and Culture and diploma thesis entitled:
“Biblical-Allegoric Symbolism in Aurelius Prudentius Clemens' Poems “Apotheosis”,
“Hamartigenia” and “Psychomachia” - analyses are based on Rabanus Maurus'
(XII) "Allegoriae in tota Sancta Scriptura".
Degree: MA in Classics, 1991.
Post-graduate courses:
One year specialization course in "Latin Translation Studies" (1992
- 1993) at Sofia University, Department of Classics. Specialization thesis
entitled "Some Problems in Translating from Latin", based on comparative
analyses of different Latin authors and some translations in Bulgarian as
well as in English and French. Specialization cerificate grade - excellent
(6.00).
One-year specialization at Geneva University - Unite de Latin (2003-2004)
Professional Experience:
1996 - 2004 - Assistant-Professor in Latin and Translation Studies at Sofia
University, Department of Classics.
2004-2005 - Participant in the undergraduate program renewal and development
in Classics - author of two courses syllabi: "Latin Language and Authors
- part I" and "Latin Language and Authors - part II".
2004 - 2005 - Participant in the Masters Curriculum renewal and development
in Classics - staff member of the Project "Development of the Masters
Program in Humanities - Ancient Literature and Culture"; author of the
course syllabus "Problems of Translation and Reception of Ancient Texts".
2001-2002 - Director of the project "A Digital Encyclopedia of the
Ancient World" - the first encyclopedia of the ancient world in Bulgaria
as well as the first one in electronic format, sponsored by Sofia University
Research Fund.
1997-2004 - Director of the project "Romulus Bulgaricus - A Bilingual
Digital Library for Latin Literature" - a collection of all bulgarian
translations of latin texts, sponsored by Open Society Foundation, Sofia,
and Sofia University Research Fund.
1995 - 1997 - Assistant-Researcher at Linguistic Modelling Laboratory,
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
1995 - 1997 - Staff member in two EU COPERNICUS'94 projects:
- BILEDITA, for construction of bilingual electronic dictionaries (French-Bulgarian
and Bulagrian-French) by statistical approach,
- GLOSSER, for design and implementation of software tools facilitating second
language learning and acquisition, as well as translation facilities based
on alignment programs.
1992- 1996 - Participation in the project 'Translation Reception of European
Literatures in Bulgaria during the 19th and 20th centuries". (This joint
project was organised by the Translators’ Union of Bulgaria, Literature Institute
of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and supported by the Austrian Society
KulturKontakt).
Author of the article "Ancient Literature in Bulgaria till Liberation
from Ottoman Suppression", vol 3, S. , 2002.
1994 - Successful application to the post-graduate M.Phil. Course at Cambridge
University, Faculty of Classics. Highly evaluated by the Faculty Board of
Classics essay entitled: “Author, Audience, and Literary Purpose in Translating
Ancient Texts”.
1991 - 1996 - Part-time assistant-professor in Latin at the Department
of Classics at Sofia University
Languages
French - fluent (four-year education in French school), English - very good
(Cambridge First Certificate in English, grade - B pass, 1994), Russian - very
good.
Publications and papers
Articles:
Sirakova, Y. Influences in Translation Studies - from Modern Times to Antiquity.
A Corpus-based Translation Study of Orpheus, Proceedings from the conference "Translation
and Cultural Transfer" in honour of prof. A. Lilova, forthcoming
Gerdjikova, V., Sirakova, Y., Problems in Teaching Classics in Eastern
Europe. Observations from an International Seminar, Proceedings from V. Tarnovo
Conference "Cultures and Religions in the Mediterranean Region, the
Balkans and the East", forthcoming
Sirakova, Y. , Iliev, D. , “Romulus Bulgaricus: The Classical Digital Database
Project In Bulgarian Webspace”; Review of the National Center for Digitization
of Serbia and Montenegro, no.4 [2004] (online-version: http://www.komunikacija.org.yu/komunikacija/casopisi/ncd/4/index_e)
Sirakova, Y. , The Modern Context of Ancient Texts - Two Bulgarian Projects,
in: Proceedings of
The Faculty of Classical and Modern Languages Research Session of doctoral
students and assistant -professors, forthcoming
Sirakova, Y., Parallel Corpora in Studying the Reception of Latin Literature
in Translation, in: Praktika, Proceedings of XI th. Congress of FIEC, Kavala
2002
Sirakova, Y. , Romulus Bulgaricus – Classical Antiquity in Modern Technological
Reality, in: Journal of Literature, 10, 2001
Sirakova, Y. , Modern Reader Response of Ancient Texts - Cat. 64, in: Symposion.
Antiquity and Humanities, S. , 2000, Essyas in honour of Prof. B. Bogdanov.
Sirakova Y., "Ancient Literature in Bulgaria till the Liberation from
Ottoman Suppression", in “ Translation Reception of Ancient Literature
in Bulgaria during 19th and 20th centuries”, vol. 3, S. , 2002.
Sirakova Y. , “Author, Audience and Literary Purpose in Translating Ancient
Texts”, in: Pomoerium, vol. 3, 1998
Nedyalkova Y., " The Moral Absolutism of Horace in Translation or
about Translator's Licences and Constraints", in “Philologia”, Sofia
University Press, 1994.
Lectures and papers:
28 January 2004 - public lecture at Geneva University, Unite de Latin: "Romulus
Bulgaricus - un espace intertextuel des textes latins et leurs traductions
en bulgare".
3 - 6 January 2003 – "Transformation of Literary Imagery in Translation
– Sallust’s Personage of Catiline in Bulgarian Translation Context; a paper
at the American Philological Association three-year colloquium "Translation
in Context", New Orleans, Louisiana
November 1997 - "The "Syndrome" of Marcus Aurelius and The
Future of Humanities" , a paper at the conference " The Future
of Humanities", Sofia
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