Irene Ivantcheva, is a literary critic, historian, and feminist scholar. She is the author of Shores of Emotions: Voices of Women in Bulgarian Poetry and Ecrire dans la langue de l’Autre: Assia Djebaret Julia Kristeva, as well as numerous articles, essays, poems, and a literature textbook. Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, she currently lives in the United States and teaches French language and literature at the University of Cincinnati.