Irene Ivanova Ivantcheva-Merjanska , Ph.D.

Associate Professor Educator

Ph.D. : U of Cincinnati 2011 (French and Francophone literature)

Ph.D. : Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 2001

Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies : U of Cincinnati 2009

Teaching Online Certficate: Quality Matters USA, 2022 (Teaching Online)

Foreign Language Teaching, Active Learning, French Language, Literature and Cinema,  Francophone Literature, Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Studies, Women’s Studies, European Studies, Slavic Literatures.

2011 - Adjunct Assistant Professor of French , U of Cincinnati,

2017 -2019 Educator Assistant Professor and French Coordinator, RALL department,

2019 -2024 Undergraduate Studies Director, RALL, Advising: majors, minors, certificates - French, Spanish, Italian.,

2022 - Educator Associate Professor ,

2003 -2008 Instructor of French, RALL department,

Book

Bregove na chuvstvoto. Glasove na jeni v balgarskata poesia.[Women’s voices in Bulgarian Poetry] -Sofia: Sofia University Publishing House, 1995. 

Ecrire dans l’autre  langue : Assia Djebar et  Julia Kristeva. Collection : Critiques littéraires. Paris : L’Harmattan, 2015. 270 p.

Glasove na jeni v balgarskata poesia. Aspekti na intertextualnostta [Women’s voices in Bulgarian Poetry.Aspects of Intertextuality]. Sofia: Porsveta, 2015. 460 p.

Pieces. Poems and Fragments. Билингва/ Bilingual edition. Sofia, Polis, 2021. ISBN 978-954-796-086-2

Peer Reviewed Publications

“Entre l’Algérie et la France: Saisies des seuils culturel et racial dans L’amour, la fantasia et Vaste est la prison d’Assia Djebar.” Cincinnati Romance Review31 (2011): 57-74. [Special Issue: Assia Djebar : Ecrivaine entre deux rives]

“Between Algeria and France: Assia Djebar’s Appropriations of Cultural and Racial Thresholds in Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade and So Vast the Prison.” - Cultural Dynamics of Gobalization and African Literature.  Trans. Janice Spleth. Eds. Sandra Dixon and Janice Spleth. African Literature Association Annual Series. Trenton, NJ:  Africa World Press, 2016, 155-182.

 
“Penser en nomade et dans l’autre langue le monde, la vie psychique et la littérature. ”
Interview with Julia Kristeva (in collaboration with Michèle  E. Vialet). Special Issue Kristeva in Process: The Fertility of Thought. Cincinnati Romance Review 35 (Spring 2013): 158-189.
 

“Cheminements vers l’identité européenne : l’autre langue, la psychanalyse, le dialogue  et le roman dans Meurtre à Byzance et dans des essais de Julia Kristeva.  Special Issue Kristeva in Process: The Fertility of Thought. Cincinnati Romance Review 35 (Spring 2013): 49-74.
 

Peer Reviewed Conference/Workshop Proceedings

 “The dialectics between romantic and anti-romantic in the film A Heart in Winter by Claude Sautet.” Proceedings of the First Global Virtual Conference. Vol. 1, issue 1.  Zilina: EDIS - Publishing Institution of the University of Zilina (ISBN 978-80-554-0679-4), 2013,  227—229.

Paper Presentations

Irene Ivantcheva-Merjanska (2009. ) “La notion de liberté, la psychanalyse et le roman: cheminements vers l’identité européenne dans l’œuvre de Julia Kristeva” .Institut für Romanistik, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.

(2015. ) “Le regard multidimensionnel sur la maternité et les langues dans le roman Possessions de Julia Kristeva.” .The 35th Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, April 9-11, 2015..

(2013. ) “The dialectics between romantic and anti-romantic in the film A Heart in Winter by Claude Sautet.” .

(2008. ) “Visage de l’autre dans le génocide rwandais à travers des textes du programme littéraire Devoir de mémoire” . The 34th Annual Conference of the African Literature Association (ALA), the Western Illinois University (WIU), Macomb, Illinois, April 22-27, 2008. .

(2008. ) “Studying Works of Black American Women Writers through the Symbolism of Space,” .The West Virginia Association of College English Teachers Spring Conference (WVACET),West Virginia University at Parkersburg, March 14-15, 2008. .

(2006. )

(2009. ) Entre l’Algérie et la France: Saisies des seuils culturel et racial dans L’amour, la fantasia et Vaste est la prison d’Assia Djebar,” . The 62nd Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference (KFLC), University of Kentucky, April 16 –18, 2009..

(2012. ) “Leurs Etats-Unis: le regard existentialiste et marxiste de Simone de Beauvoir et le regard postmoderne de Thérèse-Migraine George,” . The 32nd Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, May 5, 2012..

2010 -2011 Distinguished Dissertation Completion Fellowship by the Graduate School of the University of Cincinnati

2008 University Research Council Award Graduate Student Grant Type:Monetary

2006 University Research Council Award Graduate Student Grant

Taft Conference Travel Grant for presenting at Humboldt University, Berlin Presenting paper “La notion de liberté, la psychanalyse et le roman: cheminements vers l’identité européenne dans l’œuvre de Julia Kristeva” – International Colloquium "Kristeva in Process" - 30 Oct – 1 Nov 2009, Institut für Romanistik, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.

Cincinnati Romance Review Editor Type:Editorial Service Level:Department 2005 -2006

Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures Co-Chair Type:Departmental Service Level:Department 05-10-2007 -05-12-2007

Coordinator Type:Departmental Service Level:Department 08-01-2017

Ohio Department of Education (TAG Review Committee ) Committee Member Type:Other Educational Service Level:State 08-01-2017

ivantcii@ucmail.uc.edu