Anastasia Dilova is a second-year PhD student on the Literary Theory Departament at The Faculty of Slavic Studies at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, in Sofia, Bulgaria.

She has been working in the field of the Gothic literature for three years, under the supervision of prof. Ognyan Kovachev. Now the object of her dissertation is the roles of the woman in the British Gothic fiction, and she observes some of the canonical works of Gothic authors through the ages, such as Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Angela Carter, A. S. Byatt, etc.