Notes on Contributors
Dr. Rossen Roussev is Associate Professor in Contemporary Philosophy at “St. Cyril andSt. Methodius” University of Veliko Tarnovo. He has been a Visiting Professor at theKazakh British Technical University, Almaty, Kazakhstan, Assistant Professor at Kyungpook
National University, Daegu, S. Korea, and at St. John’s University in New York. He alsotaught at the University of Aktobe, Kazakhstan, the City University of New York, and Mercy
College in New York. He obtained his doctorate in philosophy from The New School forSocial Research in New York (2005). His publications and interests are in phenomenology,
philosophy of language, critical theory, and philosophy of culture.
Email: r.roussev@ts.uni-vt.bg
Dr. Tomokazu Baba is Associate Professor at Nagano Prefectural College, University ofNagano. He received a Ph.D. from Hitotsubashi University (2008) and another one from theSorbonne Paris IV (2013). His research discipline include Contemporary Philosophy,Ethics, History of Ideas, especially 20th century French and German Philosophy, Levinas
and Heidegger. Email: joiespacieuse@gmail.com
Dr. Jon Mahoney is Professor of Philosophy at Kansas State University. He has taught
philosophy in Turkey, Italy, and Kyrgyzstan, and is primarily interested in politicalphilosophy. His interests include international education and travel, and he has been
pursuing these interests in Central Asia for the past several years. He received his Ph.D. in
Philosophy from Binghamton University, NY, in 2000. Email: jmahoney@ksu.edu
Dr. Micah Daily received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research in2014. Prior to that, she attained a B.A. in philosophy, storytelling, and filmmaking fromSarah Lawrence College. Dr. Daily specializes in Kantian and modern moral philosophy as
applied to everyday experience. She is an established lecturer and recipient of the mostinfluential person and excellence in teaching awards from her students at Mount SaintMary’s University in Los Angeles where she taught philosophy and cultural studies for eightyears. She currently works at the Philosophy Department of California Lutheran University
at Thousand Oaks. Her research interests include: ‘Neighborliness’ and ‘quarrelsomeness’in our developing global community and the power of rational discourse as a method toaddress issues of free speech and hyperpolarization in politics, on college campuses, online,and in everyday experience. Email: mdaily@callutheran.edu
Dr. Frank Passani obtained his Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Barcelona
with a dissertation on the Aristotelian and Platonic influences on the British author C. S.
Lewis. His main field of interest is the relationship between Philosophy and Literature. He
became a Modern Greek translator while working in Greece as a Spanish language teacher.
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School. You can follow his literary reviews with English and Spanish subtitles on hisYouTube channel Read This or Die! Email: francesc.badrines.passani@gmail.com
Dr. Petya Tsoneva is Associate Professor at the Department of English and Americanstudies at “St. Cyril and St. Methodius” University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. Her
interests and publications span over postcolonial studies, English and French literature,
literary responses to migration, and borderline experience. She is holder of one of the ESSE
bursaries for postdoctoral research in 2015. Email: petyatzoneva@hotmail.com
Dr. Alexandra Preitschopf studied French and History at the University of Salzburg(Austria). She finished her PhD in contemporary history in 2016 with thesis “Solidarity withPalestine, anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism among Muslims in contemporary France.” After
working as a research assistant and lecturer at the University of Salzburg andthe Universityof Linz, she now teaches on behalf of the OeAD (the Austrian academic exchangeprogramme) at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. Her research interests include:
Modern Jewish history, anti-Semitism, culture of remembrance.
Email: Alexandra.Preitschopf@stud.sbg.ac.atDr. Mitko Momov is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophical Sciences at“St. Cyril and St. Methodius” University of Veliko Tarnovo. He has taught courses in
Eastern Philosophy, Social Philosophy, and Business Ethics. He has specialized in
Denmark, India, Russia, Poland, and Hungary. His research interests are in anthropology
and history of philosophy. He has published and participated in interdisciplinary projects
internationally. Email: momovmitko@gmail.com
Dr. Mirena Patseva is Associate Professor in linguistics at Sofia University “St. Kliment
Ohridski”. She has taught courses in Cross-cultural Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Science,Anthropological Linguistics, and Cognitive anthropology. She has also taught Bulgarian
language and culture to foreigners, including for six years at Delhi University, India, and at
the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece. Email: mirena.patseva@gmail.com

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