Kalina Yamboliev

Kalina Yamboliev is a Lecturer in the Writing Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), affiliated with the College of Letters and Science. She specializes in academic writing instruction, teaching both lower- and upper-division courses such as Writing 1, Writing 2, Writing 50, and advanced courses like Writing for Business, Public Relations, Magazine Writing, and Science Writing for the Public. Additionally, she serves as a co-editor for Starting Lines, the Writing Program’s anthology of student writing.

Her research focuses on the rhetorical strategies employed by politicians, media, and the public to construct notions of ethnic and national belonging, with a particular emphasis on historical and contemporary anti-immigrant rhetoric in Italy. This work bridges critical discourse analysis, media studies, and sociopolitical communication.

No specific grants, labs, or awards are listed in the provided information. Her professional activities include translation, editing, and publishing collaborations over the past decade.