Tzvetana Kristeva#
| Membership Number: | 5043 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | JAPAN |
| Homepage(s): | https://researchers.icu.ac.jp/icuhp/KgApp?kyoinId=ymkegeogggy&Language=2 |
Present and Previous Positions
- April 2002 to present International Christian University (Tokyo), College of Liberal Arts, Graduate School of Arts and Science, Professor
- April 2017 to present Waseda University (Tokyo), School of Culture, Media, and Society, part-time lecturer (Pre-modern Japanese Literature, History of Intellectual Thought and Religion)
- April 2011 - March 2015 Chair, ICU Graduate School of Arts and Science, Comparative Culture Program
- April 2006 - March 2008 Hitotsubashi University, Graduate School of Language and Society, part-time lecturer (Japanese Literature)
- April 2003 - March 2006 Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo), Faculty of Social Science, part-time lecturer (Semiotics)
- April 2003 - March 2005 Kobe University, Graduate School, part-time lecturer (intensive courses in Japanese Literature)
- October 2000 - March 2002 Tokyo University, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, Guest-professor
- October 1995 - September 2000 Chukyo Women’s University (Nagoya), Department of Asian Cultures, Professor (Vice-Director, October 1997 - September 2000)
- January 1992 - October 1992 Vice Dean of the Faculty for Classical and Modern Philology (Sofia University)
- September 1990 - October 1992 Chair-person of the newly organized Japan Studies Program (Sofia University)
- September 1978 - March 1995 Sofia University, Faculty for Classical and Modern Philology, Centre for Eastern Languages and Cultures: lecturer
- 1981 - senior lecturer, 1984 - assistant professor, 1989 - professor
Fields of Scholarship
- Poetics and poetic language
- Semiotics (biosemiotics, etc.)
- Parody
- Post-Postmodern philosophy (deconstructing deconstruction)
- Classical Japanese literature
- Cultural anthropology
Honours and Awards
- 1986 Bulgarian Youth Union Culture Prize (translation): for the translation of Makura-no soshi (Zapiski pod vazglavkata; The Pillow Book)
- 1990 Bulgarian Translators’ Union Prize: for the translation of Dazai Osamu’s Shayo (Zalyazvashtoto slantze; The Setting Sun)
