Iliana Pavlova is a principal lecturer, PhD in Bulgarian philology in the SS Cyril and Methodius University of Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria. She is the author of The Features in the Bulgarian Renaissance (2004), Ghid de conversaţie român-bulgar cu Dicţionar bulgar-român şi român-bulgar (2007, co-autor M. Mangiulea), and of many articles.