Dr. Slav Gratchev

Dr. Slav Gratchev, MBA, PhD, is Professor of Spanish at Marshall University and the recipient of the Distinguished Artists and Scholars Award (2019) as well as the Distinguished Marshall Scholar Award (2023). He is the author/or editor of twelve books, including the Historical novel Three Steps to Freedom, published in 2024 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
His research interests are extremely broad: from Spanish Literature of the Golden Age to Russian Avant-garde; from Mikhail Bakhtin to female friendship in Literature and Art; from translation studies to advanced methods in teaching foreign languages.
His new book, Advanced Methods of Teaching Foreign Languages: The New Development on Teaching Methodology in Today’s World, published by Bloomsbury Academic, is forthcoming in 2025.