Svilen Trifonov

Recent publications:

Trifonov, S. (2025). Whistleblower Rhetoric: Mistreatment of Migrant Children in U.S. Detention Facilities. From a Whisper to a Movement: Investigating the Shared Rhetorical Spaces of Whistleblowing and Social Protest, eds. Joshua Guitar and Alan Chu. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

Trifonov, S., & Sotirova, N. (2024). Political Prudence in Times of Protest: The Rhetoric of Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev. Presidential Rhetoric and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe, ed. Rebecca Townsend. New York: Peter Lang.

Trifonov, S. (2023). The Rhetoric of Illiberal Democracy: Viktor Orbán’s Narratives of National Ascent and a Nation in Peril. Journal for the History of Rhetoric, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 59-77. DOI:10.5325/jhistrhetoric.26.1.0059

Trifonov, S. (2020). DREAMer Narratives: Redefining Immigration, Redefining Belonging. In Migration, Identity, and Belonging: Defining Borders and Boundaries of the Homeland, eds. Kumarini Silva and Margaret Franz. New York: Routledge.

Trifonov, S. (2019). (Re)Defining American: Intersectionality and Coalition Building in the Rhetoric of Jose Antonio Vargas. Southern Communication Journal. DOI:10.1080/1041794X.2019.1656768

Trifonov, S. (2017). Performing Prudence: Barack Obama’s Defense of NSA Surveillance Programs. Advances in the History of Rhetoric, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 28-46. DOI:10.1080/15362426.2016.1271752

Trifonov, S. (2016). Twenty-five Years of Democracy, Twenty-five Years of Social Protest: The Role of the Carnivalesque in Bulgaria’s 2013 Antigovernment Protests. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, vol. 10, no 3, pp. 237-254. DOI: 10.1080/17513057.2016.1267254

Trifonov, S. (2016). Book review: Tom Chafin, Met His Every Goal? James K. Polk and the Legends of Manifest Destiny. Southern Communication Journal, vol. 81, no. 3, pp. 184-186. DOI:10.1080/1041794X.2016.1154099