Lect. PhD Gabrıela IVANOVSKA

Biography

Gabriela Ivanovska received her undergraduate and postgraduate education at "Blaze Koneski" Faculty of Philology, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, North Macedonia and Westminster College, MO, USA. She has completed her undergraduate studies with honors double majoring in General and Comparative Literature and American Studies at the Faculty of Philology "Blaze Koneski" - Skopje, where she also received her doctorate in the field of Literary Science in 2017. The focus of her interest are comparative literary analyses, educational strategies and the advancement of educational curricula for the study of language and literature. In the period from 2007 until 2019, she worked as a Language and Literature teacher in all levels of education: in primary, in secondary school and as an assistant at the Department of General and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Philology "Blaze Koneski" - Skopje. In parallel with her teaching, she has been conducting projects and researches on the availability of education and inclusive educational policies and practices for marginalized and underprivileged groups in cooperation with the Bureau for the Advancement of Education in the Republic of North Macedonia and the State Examination Center. Since 2019, she has been working in the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of North Macedonia in the Department for International Cooperation and Cooperation with UNESCO. Since 2022, she has been employed as a lecturer of Macedonian language, literature and culture at the Department of Slavic Languages ​​at Istanbul University, Turkey. Her published papers aim to analyze intercultural and interliterary relations in the direction of popularizing the so-called small literatures and languages, such as the Macedonian language. In addition, she publishes papers in which she investigates the formative dimension and function of the state educational curricula in literature, the degree of their democracy, inclusiveness and equality.