The Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology is a unique centre for non-Slavic languages, literatures and cultures. The staff includes 216 full-time and 300 part-time lecturers. They cover a wide range of research and applied areas starting from fundamental research in the areas of the respective languages, literatures and cultures, through applied linguistics (dictionaries, textbooks, translations, etc.) to contrastive studies in the fields of language, literature and culture. Areas of research also include Bulgarian history, epigraphy and Thracian Studies. The research of staff members is inseparable from their teaching, which contributes to the high quality of the Faculty’s graduates and fully corresponds to the increasing requirements of both students and society at large.