Academic position: Assistant Professor, PhD
Research field: Daoism; Chinese script; Oracle bone Script; Ancient Chinese culture; Chinese linguistics and semiotics; Chinese numerology
Academic courses:
Classical Chinese Literature
History of Ancient China
An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Translation
Linguistic Characteristics of Shang Dynasty Oracle Bone Inscriptions (14–11 c. BC)
Philosophical and Textological Analysis of the Treatises “Laozi” and “Zhuangzi”
Linguistic Strategies of Enlightenment in Chan Buddhism
Chinese Numerology and the “Book of Changes”
Lexical, Syntactic and Stylistic Peculiarities of Tang Poetry
Methodology of Chinese Script Teaching
Etymological Studies of Chinese language
The Literary Tradition outside China – Taiwan and Hong Kong
Publications
Books
Koutzarova, Teodora. Dao: Archetypes of Transcendence. Sofia: Iztok-Zapad (East-West) Publishing House, 2021.
Koutzarova, Teodora. Daodejing: Treatise on the Way and the Innate Bestowal: A Translation and a Textological Analysis of the Original 32 Sections in the Bamboo Slips from the Chu Tomb at Guodian (4th century BC) with Reputed Author Laozi and of the 51 Sections Added to the Text during Late Qin Dynasty or Early Han Dynasty (3rd century BC). Sofia: Iztok-Zapad (East-West) Publishing House, 2019.
Laozi. A Treatise on the Way and the Innate Bestowal (5th century BC): A Translation and a Textological Analysis of the Original 32 Sections in the Bamboo Slips from the Chu Tomb at Guodian (4th century BC) with Reputed Author Laozi (Lao Dan) and of the 51 Sections Added to the Text during Late Qin Dynasty or Early Han Dynasty (3rd century BC)/translated by Teodora Koutzarova. Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2008.
Translations
Fiction
Mo Yan. Five Buns. Collected Translations of the Nobel Laureate Mo Yan, Winners of the Literary Translation Contest „Jade Words“. Koutzarova, Teodora, ed. Confucius Institute in Sofia, 2017.