Ivan Angelov Dimitrov

Ivan Angelov Dimitrov serves as a Senior Lecturer at the Department of English and American Studies within the Faculty of Modern Languages at the University of Veliko Tarnovo. His academic career centers on American literary traditions and cultural analysis.

His research spans American Literature, Cultural Studies, and Jewish-American Literary History, with concentrated expertise in Philip Roth's oeuvre, Norman Mailer's war narratives, and contemporary explorations of identity. Key thematic threads include existential awareness in combat literature, magical realism in diaspora writing, and the trickster figure in African American narratives.

Analysis of his 2020-2025 publications reveals a distinctive interdisciplinary trajectory—while maintaining core focus on 20th/21st century American fiction (particularly Roth, DeLillo, and Ellison), he has expanded into analyzing Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) congressional hearings, demonstrating how literary frameworks can interrogate contemporary political discourse and government transparency issues.