Angelina Vassileva

Angelina Vassileva is a Lecturer in the Department of Cinema, Advertising and Showbusiness at New Bulgarian University (NBU). She holds a degree in Film Studies from the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). Prior to joining NBU, she served as a scientific collaborator at the Research Institute of Culture (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Culture) and the Research Institute of Cultural Studies (Ministry of Culture).

Her research explores interdisciplinary connections between aesthetics, semiotics, and psychoanalysis within visual media. She teaches extensively across programs including Cinema and Television, Advertising, Animation, and Photographic Art, covering topics such as:

• Film genres and television applications
• Visual communication in advertising
• Cinema and psychoanalytic theory
• World literature adaptations in film