Associate Professor Desislava Cheshmedzhieva-Stoycheva, PhD received her PhD from the University of Shumen, Bulgaria. She is the author of The Ethnic Other: The Image of Roma, Gypsies, and Travellers in the Bulgarian and the British Press (Asenevtsi, 2020). Her interests lie in the field of comparative linguistics, media studies and culture studies with focus on ethnicity, religion and identity.