[4] Born in an intellectual family in communist Bulgaria, she read Philosophy and German and obtained her doctorate under the guidance of Prof. Isaac Passy in Aesthetics and cultural history at Kliment Okhridski University in Sofia, in 1986.
In emigration Iordanova lived and worked in Canada and the US, later on settling in the UK in 1998 and becoming actively engaged in European networks and projects.
Her work is reviewed widely, translated in over fifteen languages and adopted for use in courses at over seventy Universities internationally.
Her book Cinema of Flames[8] reviewed in over thirty journals, including Kinoeye,[9] Screening the Past,[10] Post Script,[11] Europe-Asia Studies,[12] and has been extensively discussed in various scholarly contexts.
She writes the blog DinaView on topics related to world cinema, culture, technology and investing.