Veneta Yankova

Veneta Yankova is an Associate Professor of Folkloristic at the University of Shumen (Bulgaria) and doctor of science (IEFSEM – BAS).   Now she is a lecturer in Bulgarian language and culture at ELTE, Budapest. Scope of research: historical memory, culture heritage abroad, ethno-cultural interactions, Balkan cultures, traditions of ethnic communities. Books:  Between the oral and the written word: the folklore and the popular saint’s life (1997); Ethnocultural interactions (2005); Toposes, memory, identities. (2007); The Bulgarians in Hungary: cultural memory and heritage (2014); The masquerade – we and the others  (2017).