Dr. David Jenkins had a collection of his English translations of contemporary Bulgarian prose published by Plovdiv University Press in 2019. Interim Report of the Bulgarian Society for the Diffusion of Useful Ignorance introduces the wit, wisdom, and weirdness of six contemporary Bulgarian writers: Stanislav Stratiev, Radoy Ralin, Emil Andreev, Ilko Dimitrov, Ivan Cholakov, and Vazken Nalbantian. In the spring semester of 2020, his 2019 collection of Bulgarian-English translations will be the textbook for an elective course at Plovdiv University in contemporary Bulgarian prose in English translation.