Christina Kotchemidova, Ph.D.

E-mail: cgk207@nyu.edu
Website: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~cgk207/

CURRICULUM VITAE

Education

1999 -- 2005 New York University

Doctoral Program in Media Ecology

Department of Culture and Communication

Steinhardt School of Education

Degree earned: PhD in Communication Studies
Dissertation area: Emotion Culture and Communication

1992 - 1993 New York University,

Graduate School of Arts and Science

Department of Journalism and Mass Communication

Degree earned:                Master of Arts in Journalism
                                                Specialization: Cultural Reporting and Criticism
                                                                   Magazine

1970 - 1974 Université de Lausanne, Switzerland

Faculté des lettres

Degree earned: Licence ès lettres

Major: English

Minors: French, Russian

Diplôme d’aptitude à l’enseignement du français

1969 - 1970 Sofia University

Faculty of Western Philologies

Major: English

1963 - 1969 English School of Sofia, Bulgaria

Teaching

Aug. 2005 -- Assistant Professor in Mass Communication
Department of Communication Arts

Spring Hill College
Mobile, AL

Courses taught:               CMM145 Intro to Mass Communication
                                      CMM 260 Visual Communication
                                      CMM 370 Theory of Mass Communication

Sept. 2002-- 2005 Instructor

Communication Studies

Department Culture and Communication

New York University

Sept. 1999–May 2002 Teaching Assistant.

Communication Studies

Department Culture and Communication

New York University

Courses taught: E59.0001 Perspectives on Communication

E59.0003 History of Communication

E59.0010 Language, Thought and Culture

E59.0014 Media Criticism

1994 – 1999 Assistant Professor of Journalism

Department of Journalism and Mass Communications

American University in Bulgaria

Courses taught: JMC 202 Information Skills I (Newswriting and Reporting)

JMC 203 Information Skills II (Feature Writing)

JMC 307 Cultural Reporting

JMC 306 Media Law and Ethics

JMC 481 Internship

ENG 260 Balkan Literature

1990 – 1992 Adjunct Professor of Western Literature

1993 – 1994 Department Theory of Literature

Sofia University

Courses taught: West European Literature (Renaissance-present)

American Literature (Survey)

1978 – 1981 Assistant Professor of West European Literature

Department Theory of Literature

Sofia University, Bulgaria

Courses taught: West European Literature (Renaissance-present)

Work Experience

May-Aug. 2001 Summer School Program Assistant

Department of Journalism

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
New York University

May-Aug. 2000 Assistant

Research and Development

Office of Sponsored Programs

Steinhardt School of Education, NYU

1995 – 1999 International stringer for Time

1981 - 1994 Editor, Contemporary Magazine

Sofia, Bulgaria.

Work experience includes freelance journalism, feature articles, art reviews and cultural criticism, articles of literary theory and criticism, editing volumes of collected works, publishing introductions to books, translating books, films and theater plays (English-French-Russian-Bulgarian), book reviewing and book publishing.