Anna Dimitrova

Annie earned an MA in Early Childhood Education and a Minor in French from the University of Sofia, Bulgaria. Later, she received a second MA in French and Francophone World Studies from the University of Iowa. She completed her PhD in the Spring of 2019 with a thesis entitled: "Impasse in Multilingual Spaces: Politics of Language and Identity in Contemporary Francophone Contact Zones."  Her broad research interests include the theme of marginalization, displacement and exile in 20th and 21st century France and Quebec. Most recently, her research focuses on Francophone contact zones, and their inherent phenomena of bilingualism and translanguaging. She is a recipient of the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for the 2014-2015 Academic Year and the 2015 Klinzing Grant for Dissertation Research on the European Union. 

Dr. Dimitrova started a permanent position as Lecturer of French at Columbus State University in Columbus, GA, in the Fall of 2019.