30 academic hrs:  beginning 17 January 2021 to March 2021.

Classes: Wednesday, Sunday 16:00 – 17.30 p.m.

Small groups also possible (by arrangement)

The course is designed for adults and young adults who want to brush up their English and communication skills. It will introduce students to a wide range of social and cultural topics which will be discussed as a group within a relaxed setting. Students will have the opportunity to learn new vocabulary, practice their conversational skills and hone techniques for how they can debate among their peers. Conversations (adapted to the interests of the applicants) will focus on cultural and societal topics involving learning and education, cooking, friendships, healthcare, lifestyle and hobbies, media and journalism, and film.

Intermediate and above level of English required.

Dr. Jonathan McCreedy is an assistant professor in English literature at the Department of English and American Studies, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski. He received his PhD from the University of Ulster based upon his study of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. He teaches classes in Academic and General English, Irish culture, Literary Journalism, and James Joyce studies.

Price: 300 lv. 

Questions and course registration: 0889 057 616; 0898 220 468

e-mail: fuaakursove@abv.bg

Bank account:

Фондация “УАА”
IBAN BG50UNCR96601081322315
BIC UNCRBGSF
Уникредит Булбанк

Задължено лице: трите имена на участника в курса

Основание за плащане: наименованието на курса (разговорен английски)

Катедрата по англицистика и американистика към СУ “Св. Климент Охридски” и Фондация „Университетска англицистика и американистика” – съвместно с дарителите от САЩ и Великобритания – учредиха специален мемориален фонд на името на д-р Калина Филипова, за да се съхрани споменът за нея като университетски преподавател и изявен преводач. За целта ежегодно се присъжда грант (на стойност 1 000 лв.) на студент/ка английска филология (бакалавър) в Софийския университет за реализирането на академичен или творчески проект, свързан с англоезичната литература и/или превода от и на английски език.

Кандидатите трябва да са студенти от трети или четвърти курс и да имат среден успех над 5.00 от следването си до момента на кандидатстването.

За участие в конкурса се представят следните документи:

1. Автобиография (на английски език).
2. Уверение за успех.
3. Кратко представяне на проекта (1-3 стр.) за осъществяване на литературна разработка, превод, участие в научни форуми с доклад или други творчески изяви, свързани с англоезичната литература и превода.
4. Допълнителни материали: публикации, доклади, данни за участия в специализации, членство в студентски научни организации, клубове и др.

Срок за кандидатстване: 20 февруари 2021 г.  Документите се изпращат като прикачен файл на имейл адреса на ФУАА: afeas2016@gmail.com с тема „За конкурса за Мемориалния грант “Д-р Калина Филипова“.

About Dr. Kalina Filipova:

Dr. Kalina Filipova was educated in Bulgaria and the USA. She obtained her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Sofia, Bulgaria, and specialised in the UK and the USA. In 1990 she joined the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Sofia, where she taught courses in English literature, stylistics, translation, creative writing, and a specialised course on James Joyce. Kalina Filipova was an original and internationally respected Joyce scholar. Her publications have appeared in The James Joyce Quarterly and other journals and she was several times a speaker at the James Joyce Annual Summer School at Trieste and Dublin. She is also the author of the first extensive research on Joyce’s reception in Bulgaria.
Kalina Filipova taught courses in Bulgarian language and literature at the University of Leeds, UK, and in literary theory and James Joyce at SUNY, Albany. She was on the Executive Board of the Bulgarian Society for British Studies and an active member of ESSE.

Kalina Filipova was also among the best Bulgarian translators of prose and poetry from and into English: she has translated Nikola Vaptsarov’s poetry, John Lennon’s poems and prose, contemporary American poets such as Donald Justice, Kenneth Koch, Denise Levertov, Charles Wright,  N. Scott Momaday’s novel House Made of Dawn, and others.

Kalina was loved by her students and colleagues for her kindness and high professionalism. Her untimely death in a car accident took her away from her colleagues and students.  She is deeply missed. The memorial grant to her name established with the help of international colleagues is one way to keep the memory of her alive.