Elisaveta Moussakova
1989: PhD, IAS;
2002: Assoc. Prof.;
2017: Prof.
Specialised at:
– 1998: courses of fortnight duration on Management Issues in Archival Preservation, Summer School, CEU Budapest (certificate);
– 2000: Summer Institute in World Art Studies, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA, Norwich;
– 2005, 2009: A programme intended for those working at museums, archives and libraries, the Bavarian State Library, Munich.
Joined IAS in 1988; 2017
Publications:
– Писмо и писачи в българските ръкописи до края на ХVІІ в. София, 2014. pp. 135, ISBN 978-954-2988-29-8;
– Опис на славянските ръкописи в Църковно-историческия и архивен институт на Българската православна църква. Vol. 1. Библейски книги. Б. Христова, Е. Мусакова, Е. Узунова. science ed.. К. Иванова. София, 2009. pp, 256: color ill. ISBN 978-954-500-228-1;
– Moussakova, E. Pimen of Zograph’s Manuscripts as an Example of Collaboration aamong Scribes. – In: Хризограф: No. 2. responsible ed. Э. Добрынина. Москва, 2005, 169–199. ISBN 5-93221-078-8;
– Още един фрагмент от Шопов-Карадимовия псалтир. – In: Богослужебните книги – познати и непознати. Е. Тончева (ed.), et al. София, 2008, 27–42. ISBN 978-954-9700-72-5;
– Графическата сегментация на текста в Асеманиевото евангелие. – Slovo (Zagreb), 56–57 (2008), 391–404. ISSN 0583-6255;
– Глаголическите старобългарски ръкописи от Х и ХІ век: състояние на проучванията върху тяхната украса. – In: Европейският Югоизток през втората половина на Х – началото на ХІ век. Compilers: В. Гюзелев, Г. Николов. София, 2015, 760-779. ISBN 978-954-509-540-5, 978-954-509-539-9.
Projects:
2012–2014: Е-medievalia (An International, Electronic and Interactive Teaching-Learning Platform for Medieval Studies), Ministry of Education, Youth and Science; see https://e-medievalia.uni-sofia.bg/moodle/course/index.php?categoryid=7;
2008: Machine Readable Description and Searchable Catalogues of Cyrillic Manuscripts, (BAS in collaboration with the British Academy).
Prof. Moussakova has participated in a number of symposia and conferences at home and abroad such as:
– 2008, Symposium on Serb-Bulgarian Relations within the Byzantine World in the Thirteenth c., Belgrade;
– 2011, the twelfth edition of the International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Sofia;
– 2016, the thirteenth edition of the International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Belgrade;
– 2016, 2017, Art Studies Readings, Sofia.
Courses of lectures:
National Academy of Art (Art Studies BA Programme): South-Slavic Manuscripts: Illumination and Script; Phenomenology of Bulgarian Handwritten Books;
– University of Sofia, Department of History of Bulgaria (MA programmes): Е-medievalia: Digital Library of Medieval Studies; Script Illumination and Visual Culture in Medieval Bulgaria;
BAS (PhD Programme): Palaeography and Codicology of Bulgarian Manuscripts (Tenth to Seventeenth cc,
Prof. Moussakova has supervised PhD student Tsveta Evlogieva-Katsarova (successfully defended her thesis in 2014).
Research related activities:
– Member of the editorial board of Scripta & e-Scripta j.;
– Organising Secretary of Bulgaria’s National Committee, Memory of the World Programme, UNESCO.
