Mariyanka Borisova

Mariyanka Borisova is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore studies with Ethnographic museum – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Her research explores the social, emotional, and cultural dimensions of Bulgarian literacy festivities (like element of the cultural heritage), celebrated in the educational iInstitutions of Bulgarian iImmigrant communities. Her main fields of research are calendar masquerade games, new migration, cultural heritage, traditional and official festivities, oral and written narratives, local history. She participates in many projects, and is author of numerous articles, and is editor of several volumes.