Blagovesta Momchedjikova – Poet, Author, Professor

Blagovesta Momchedjikova
Poet, Author, Professor

Blagovesta Momchedjikova, PhD, is a lover and writer of cities, who has been teaching at the Expository Writing Program at New York University since 1998. She is the editor of Captured By The City: Perspectives in Urban Culture Studies (2013) and Streetnotes: Urban Feel (2010); co-editor of Urban Habits (2025), Sounds and Silence in the Pandemic City (2022), From Above: The Practice of Verticality (2019), Thoughts and Visions On and Around the Queens Museum’s Panorama of the City of New York (2018), and Public Place: Between Spectacle and Resistance (2016); and contributor to The International Panorama Council Journal, The Everyday of Memory, Robert Moses and the Modern City, Streetnotes, Iso Magazine, The Journal of American Culture, Tourist Studies, Genre: Imagined Cities, and PIERS. She chaired the Conference Scientific Committee for the International Panorama Council (IPC) for 5 years and the Urban Culture Area for MAPACA for 15 years, originating the “Writing the Urban” Workshop there. She sits on the editorial boards of Panoramic and Immersive Media Studies Yearbook (PIMSY), The International Panorama Council Journal (IPCJ), and Streetnotes. She has been a fan, educator, and tour guide of the Panorama of the City of New York at the Queens Museum for over two decades. 

New York’s Memory Palace: An Interview with Blagovesta Momchedjikova