Research
The culture of the modern Armenian diaspora: poetry, literature, film, art and intellectual trends; the socio-political impact of these trends and their relations with Armenia
Examination of the ideas of the contemporary writer Vahé Oshagan: rhetorical analysis and new historicism/cultural materialism, emigration and resettlement, deconstruction
Publications
Diasporic Inscriptions of Loss and Grief in Atom Egoyan's Calendar In The Projector: A Journal on Film, Media and Culture. winter 2020.
Vahé Oshagan's Prose of the Absurd" In: Pakin, No. 3, 2017 (Armenian-language article in a journal that publishes literary reviews of the Armenian Diaspora)
Diasporalogue ("Diasporalogue"), Serge Avédikian, Tigrane Yégavian, Editions Thaddée, 2017 (Translation from French into English).
Projection and reminiscence. "Screening Memory. The Prosthetic Images of Atom Egoyan", Marie-Aude Baronian, Académie Royale De Belgique, 2017 (Translation from French into English)
Qualifications
PhD, Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine, 2019
MA, Comparative Literature, Indiana University, Bloomington, 2012
International Institute for Genocide & Human Rights Studies, Zoryan Institute and University of Toronto, Certificate of Completion, Summer 2010
BA, Comparative Literature and Philosophy (minor), University of California, Los Angeles, 2010
Workplaces, positions
2020- Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Institute of History, Department of Armenian Studies, Lecturer
2019-2020 Alex and Marie Manoogian Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Department of Comparative Literature, Adjunct Lecturer
2018-2019 University of California, Irvine, Academic Writing, Assistant Professor
2016-2018 Université Paris Nanterre, English Language, Lecturer
2015-2015 University of California, Irvine, Academic Writing, Teaching Assistant
2014-2015 University of California, Irvine, French Language, Teaching Assistant
2012-2013 Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, Comparative Literature, Lecturer
