Alexandra K. Glavanakova is an associate professor in American literature and culture and is currently head of the Department of English and American Studies at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria. She has worked at the department for over 30 years. She has authored "Posthuman Transformations: Bodies and Texts in Cyberspace" (2014) and "Transcultural Imaginings. Translating the Other, Translating the Self in Narratives about Migration and Terrorism" (2016). Her research fields are transcultural studies (USA and Bulgaria); immigration, race and ethnicity in the USA and Canada; the study of the Bulgarian diaspora in the US and Canada; the major cultural shifts in literacy, education, literary studies, the creation and reception of texts under the impact of digital technology. She has been involved in a number of projects and publications on reading in the digital age and e-learning, and teaches courses in digital culture, multimodal writing and literature in the age of the internet.