She is now a resident of the United States and teaches Latin and Classics at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.

She has authored several books, including The Personal Names of the Latin Inscriptions in Bulgaria (Peter Lang, 2000);[2][3] The Protean Ratio (Peter Lang, 2001); Introduction to Latin Prose Composition (Bolchazy-Carducci, 2007), as well as published a translation of John Scotus Eriugena's De divisione naturae (Sofia 1994).

With her colleague Terence Tunberg, Minkova has co-authored four books: Readings and Exercises in Latin Prose Composition (Focus, 2004);[4] Reading Livy's Rome: Selections from Books I-VI Of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita (Bolchazy-Carducci, 2005); Mater Anserina: Poems in Latin for Children (Focus, 2006); Latin for the New Millennium, an introductory Latin textbook (Bolchazy-Carducci, two volumes, 2008–2009; the third volume was prepared by a different author).

[5] Together with Tunberg, Minkova conducts various seminars and workshops in active Latin throughout the United States.

Minkova is an elected fellow of the Rome-based Academia Latinitati Fovendae,[6] the primary learned society devoted to the preservation and promotion of the use of Latin.