Boryana Rossa PhD is an interdisciplinary artist and curator who works in the fields of electronic arts, film, video, performance and photography. She is an Assistant professor of film, video art and transmedia at the department of Transmedia at Syracuse University, NTY. In 2012 Rossa finished her PhD on Post Cold-War Gender Performances in Film at Rensselaer, Troy, NY. Her works have been included in international art archives such as the performing art archive re.act.feminism and Transitland Video Art from Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2009. She is also a director of Sofia Queer Forum which bridges art and film with gender theory and human rights activist practice.