Boriana Alexandrova

Boriana Alexandrova is an academic at the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, specializing in 20th-21st century literary multilingualism, translation, and modernist studies. Her work intersects with global and postcolonial literatures, performance theory, and cross-disciplinary theories of embodiment, while integrating methodologies from disability studies, medical humanities, feminist theory, queer theory, and cultural ethics.

• Specializes in multilingualism, modernism, and postcolonial studies
• Teaches global and postcolonial literature, medical humanities, and modernist topics
• Co-convenes York’s interdisciplinary MA in Medical History and Humanities
• Research engages with James Joyce, Kamau Brathwaite, and linguistic ethics

Her research explores multilingual writing, reader diversity, and the transformative impact of linguistic encounters on Anglophone literatures. Current projects include a multilingual staged poetic performance, with funding applications under review for the AHRC project Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies (MEITS). Publications focus on Finnegans Wake, translation ethics, and embodiment theories. Alexandrova supervises students in global postcolonial literatures, modernist studies, and interdisciplinary theories.

Her 2020 monograph Deplurabel Muttertongues and other publications examine multilingual phonologies, cultural narratives, and linguistic materiality. Articles reflect themes in modernist experimentation, translational creativity, and ethical engagement with multilingual texts.