Katia Mitova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria and lived there and in Poland until 1993 when she moved to the United States. She has taught literature and philosophy at the University of Sofia (Bulgaria) and at Columbia College, Roosevelt University, and the University of Chicago (Chicago). After the fall of communism in 1989, she was the Editor of the Bulgarian quarterly for foreign literature, Panorama and a correspondent for the Polish Section of Radio Free Europe. Currently, she is an instructor in the Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults at Graham School, University of Chicago and a professional faculty at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology.
Katia Mitova has translated eight books from Polish and English into Bulgarian, including poetry by Czeslaw Milosz and Mark Strand, and philosophy by Leszek Kolakowski. She has published short stories, literary criticism, and a poetry chapbook, The Human Shell (1994), in Bulgarian. Since 1999 Katia Mitova has been writing poetry and essays in English. She is working on a study of the dialogical character of literary creativity.
Current courses in the Basic Program: ”Shakespeare’s Othello” (March 27 – June 5), “Melville’s Moby-Dick“ (March 29 – June 7), and “The World of Fernando Pessoa” (June 19 – July 17).
