South-West University, Bulgaria, e-mail: peter_acad@yahoo.com
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Petar Vodenicharov holds a PhD in General and Comparative Linguistics, with a dissertation titled “The Rhythmic Organization of the Gotse Delchev Dialect” (1994). He began his academic career as an assistant professor (1985), became a senior assistant (1990), and was promoted to associate professor (2001) at South-West University “Neofit Rilski” in Blagoevgrad with the habilitation theses ‘ Language, gender and power’ (1999), Нe lectures on ethnolinguistics, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics. He served as a visiting lecturer in Bulgarian language and culture for foreigners at the American University in Bulgaria (1991–1994), and later taught ethnolinguistics at Plovdiv University “Paisii Hilendarski” (1995–1997).
His research focuses on a critical examination of the totalitarian communist Newspeak in the media and the archives of the State Security /the repression of Muslims and Protestant denominations/. He has also studied gender relations in the Balkans, the issues of sexism in media and culture in communist and post-communist Bulgaria. Within the framework of European projects, he explores Bulgarian models of memory, as well as women’s contributions to education, science, and history in the 19th and 20th centuries.
The Projects:
“Knowledge Exchange and Academic Cultures in the Humanities: Europe and the Black Sea Region, late XVIII – XXI Centuries”, European Union within the funding scheme Horizon2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie RISE (= Research and Innovation Staff Exchange), 734645, 2017 – 2021. https://blacksearegion.eu/
Politics of Memory and Memory Cultures of the Russian- Ottoman War 1877/1878: From Divergence to Dialogue, SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME Marie Curie Actions People International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (6546), 2012-2016. https://memoryrow.weebly.com/
To Come out of the Shadow” Supporting the Social Integration of People Threatened with Marginalisation Caused by their Nationality, (2011-1-PL1_GRU06-19765 2), 2011 – 2013
Specializations Abroad: He has completed academic specializations at:
Azerbaijan Academy of Science (2021). Nationalism – Cultural and Linguistic Policies
North Caucasus Federal University, Russia (2012).Memory Policies and Memory Models on Caucasus and Balkans
University of Liverpool, Britain –Psychonalisis, Language and History (2008)
University of Zagreb, Croatia (2005) – Language Policies on the Balkans
Institute for Southeast Europe in Graz, Austria (2004) –Gender Relations on the Balkans (Historical Anthropology Approach)
University of Copenhagen, Denmark (1994–1995) –Gender Studies
University of Bergen, Norway (1991) – Sociolinguistics