A conference dedicated to the 200th anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe's birthday was organized by Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology, Comparative Literature Studies Academia, and Bulgarian Association for American Studies
200 years after his birth, Edgar Allan Poe is still a favourite writer not only in America, but also in Europe and Asia. The tipocs covered by the conference included "Philosophy, aesthetics, and esoteric in Poe's works", "between decadence and science fiction" and others.