Tzvetana Kristeva - Curriculum Vitae#

• 1973 - 1978 Studied Japanese Philology, University of Moscow, Institute of Asian and African Countries, BA and MA
  MA thesis: Towazu gatari as an exemplary work of Japanese Medieval Literature
  
• December 1979 - May 1981 researcher at the Tokyo University, Department of Japanese Literature
  
• March 1984: PhD degree Sofia University (Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology) and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  Dissertation title: The Generic Characteristics of Japanese Lyrical Diaries (nikki bungaku)
  
• December 2000: Doctoral degree (PhD, 論文博士): Tokyo University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, Dissertation title: Poetics of Tears: the Development of the Poetic Language in the Early Medieval Japanese Culture

• 1986, 1988 Visiting Professor, Ca’Foscari University of Venice
  
• 1984 - 1986 (intensive courses) Visiting Professor, Belgrade University
  
• 1988 Visiting Professor, University of Copenhagen
  
• 1990 Visiting Professor, McGill University, Toronto
  
• 1993 - 1994 Visiting Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto
  
• 1994 - 1995 Visiting Professor, Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University, Sendai