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Milena Minkova (Bulgarian: Милена Минкова) is aBulgarian scholar of theLatin language.[1]She has lived, studied and taught inSwitzerland,Germany andItaly. She is now a resident of theUnited States and teachesLatin andClassics at theUniversity of Kentucky inLexington. Since the last decade of the 20th century, she has been one of the leading figures in the revival of the use of Latin among Latin scholars and teachers. She earned two Ph.Ds in Classics and Latin, one from theUniversity of Sofia (1992) and thePontifical Salesian University in Rome (1995).
She has authored several books, includingThe Personal Names of the Latin Inscriptions in Bulgaria (Peter Lang, 2000);[2][3]The Protean Ratio (Peter Lang, 2001);Introduction to Latin Prose Composition (Bolchazy-Carducci, 2007), as well as published a translation ofJohn Scotus Eriugena'sDe divisione naturae (Sofia 1994). Minkova has also published numerous articles on Latin medieval philosophy (recently on the 12th century cosmologistsBernardus Silvestris,Alan of Lille, andJohannes de Hauvilla), Latin literature, Latin composition, and Latin pedagogy. With her colleagueTerence Tunberg, Minkova has co-authored four books:Readings and Exercises in Latin Prose Composition (Focus, 2004);[4]Reading Livy's Rome: Selections from Books I-VI Of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita (Bolchazy-Carducci, 2005);Mater Anserina: Poems in Latin for Children (Focus, 2006);Latin for the New Millennium, an introductory Latin textbook (Bolchazy-Carducci, two volumes, 2008–2009; the third volume was prepared by a different author).
She is currently working on a critical anthology ofNeo-Latin texts. Minkova is an associate director of the Institute for Latin Studies at the University of Kentucky, in which students study the entirehistory of Latin fromancient Latin through to Neo-Latin and where classes are conducted in Latin.[5] Together with Tunberg, Minkova conducts various seminars and workshops in active Latin throughout the United States. Minkova is an elected fellow of the Rome-based Academia Latinitati Fovendae,[6] the primary learned society devoted to the preservation and promotion of the use of Latin.
