Dr. Nadezhda Petrova Aleksandrova (Bulgaria) – Co-Secretary
Nadezhda Petrova Aleksandrova’s professional experience in the field of gender and women’s rights encompasses three types of activism: teaching in Academia, acting for gender equality and networking across disciplines. Since 2001 is an assistant-professor at the department of Bulgarian Literature at the Faculty of Slavic Studies at Sofia University. Her courses integrate interdisciplinary methods and discuss various representations of women in the European cultural context. In the past year she has been a coordinator of the initiative “Gender relations in Educational Policy and Practice in the Danube region- Experience, Analysis and Impulses”. She participates regularly in the IRFWH conferences and contribute to “Aspasia. The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern and Southeastern European Women’s and Gender History”. As a literary historian she is part of the Bulgarian team of the COST action IS0901 “Women Writers in History” and co-researcher in another regional academic network - „Inter-confessional Relations in SE Europe and the Еastern Mediterranean since 1852”. Locally, she is also a member of the Gender Studies Center at Sofia University and of the Bulgarian Association of University Women.