Iren Ivantcheva

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Iren Ivantcheva or Ivancheva, or since 2006: Irene Ivantcheva-Merjanska (24 March 1960), is a Bulgarian literary historian, feminist and critic, born in Sofia. She graduated from the Saint Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia in 1983. She is the author of Bregove na chuvsvoto (Shores of Emotion: Women’s Voices in Bulgarian Poetry), (1995), a concise history of Bulgarian women's poetry; and the preface writer and editor of the Dimitar Bochev, book Homo Emigranticus, (1993); preface writer and editor of Mara Belcheva, One Life in collaboration with Mirela Ivanova, (1996). She is also the author of numerous papers and reviews in literary periodicals.

Her Ph.D., a dissertation on Aspects of Intertextuality in Bulgarian Women‘s Poetry from the Mid 19th century to the 1920s was defended at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia, 2000. Since 2001 she has been living in the United States where she studies French and Francophone literature in a Doctor of Philosophy program at the University of Cincinnati. She is married to the Bulgarian poet Kiril Merjanski.