Ellie Ivanova Ponti was born in Bulgaria, but she currently lives in Texas, USA, where she teaches literatures and cultures. She has also lived in Latin America where she has worked with NGOs, educational institutions (Fe y alegría) and universities.
Her essays have appeared in scholarly journals such as Romance Review, Confluencia, La coronica, Italian Studies, as well as newspapers and weeklies.
Ellie’s contributions:
- The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) and Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
- Dolls, uninterrupted
- Hamburg’s Mindscapes
- Petja Heinrich on Square 01: Crosswords of Metaphors
- Ringing in a New Year
- Learning Spanish in 1917
- Necrologues in Bulgaria
- How Important Is Truth in a Story?
- Love, today, as any other day
- Molas from San Blas Island – a traditional feminine art with a global reach
- Never on Sunday’s civilization clash
- Learning a new language is no baby talk
- Theory of the T-shirt
- Vanity License Plates and Identity Issues
- How to Have Style
- Survey courses in literature vs. Bob Dylan
- Cooking Books & Books about Cooking
- Collecting Art
