Education

PhD with highest distinction, Literature, Jesuit University of Buenos Aires
MBA, University of Buenos Aires

Research

  • Poetry of Nigoghos Sarafian: liminality, diasporic identity, virtual spatiality
  • A poststructural rereading of medieval mystical poetry
  • Languages without a country: language vitality programs and their replicability

Publications

Selected

  • “Armenian in Greater Los Angeles: Negotiating Intralinguistic Diversity in a Diaspora Epicenter,” chapter authored with Sh. Karapetian, in Multilingual La La Land: Language Use in Sixteen Greater Los Angeles Communities, Claire Hitchins Chik, editor (New York and London: Routledge, 2022), pp. 28-46.
  • “Language Vitality through ‘Creative Literacy’,” chapter in Teaching Western Armenian in the 21st Century: Challenges and New Approaches, Bedross Der Matossian and Barlow Der Mugrdechian, eds. (Fresno, CA: The Press at Fresno State, 2019), pp. 103-132.
  • “On Globalization, Orientalism, Creative Production and Conscious and Naïve Heroes: Is Literature in Non-dominant Languages Possible in Contemporary Diasporas?” [Hamašxarhac’man, arewelasirut’ean, stełcagorcut’ean ew miamit u gitakic’ herosneru masin։ Oč’-tirakan lezuov grakanut’iwnə kareli՞ ē žamanakakic’ sp’iwṙk’neru mēǰ։] Forthcoming in Pakine 3 (2022).
  • “Krikor Beledian: Contestation and Reappropriation,” in Armenian [Herk῾el ew stanjnel], Pakine 1-2 (2016), 77-85.
  • “On Words, Thought, and Sacred Nuptials” in Armenian [Baṙeru, mtacumi ew srbazan harsnut’ean masin], critical overview of Vehanoush Tekian’s lifetime literary work, Pakine 3-4 (2019), 11-31.
  • “Writer, Contemporary Community, Language” in Armenian [Groł, žamanakakic῾ hamaynk῾, lezow], chapter in Krikor Beledian et la littérature arménienne contemporaine (Paris: Presses d’INALCO, 2021), 289-310.
  • “Struggling to Offer in Sacrifice the Impossible: Gregory of Narek’s Monumental Attempt Inside Language,” chapter in Banber Matenadarani 21 (Yerevan: Library of Ancient Manuscripts, 2014) [Ankareli zoh mə verəncayelu payk’arə՝ Grigor Narekac’ii kot’ołakan p’orjə lezui əndmēǰēn], 103-116.
  • “An Armenian Opening onto Modernity and Postmodernity.” Bazmavep, vol. CLXIV, 1-4 (2006), 568-581 [in Armenian].
  • (Review article) Marc Nichanian, (ed.), Yeghishe Charents: Poet of the Revolution. With the collaboration of Vartan Matiossian. Armenian Studies Series 5. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2003. Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies Vol. 16 (2007), 178-184.
  • “Compartmentalization in Heritage Language: Observations in the Armenian Diaspora.” In Innovation in Education: Challenges of Teaching Western Armenian in the 21st Century. (Paris: Forthcoming)
  • “Historical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century Armenian Literature.” In The Heritage of Armenian Literature: Vol. III – From the Eighteenth Century to Modern Times, Agop Hacikyan et al, ed.s (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005), 80-102.
  • “On Armenian Parallels to Beowulf.” Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies Vol. 16 (2007), 76-87.
  • “Exposure of the Armenian Genocide in Cyberspace: A Comparative Analysis.” In The Armenian Genocide: Cultural and Ethical Legacies, Richard Hovannisian, ed. (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2007), 245-266.
  • “Word as Sacrifice in Grigor Narekac‘i’s Matean Ołbergut‘ean.” Bazmavep, vol. CLXII, 1-4 (2005), 92-120 [in Armenian].
  • “Network Communication, Culture, and Diaspora.” Haigazian Armenological Review 19 (1999), 367-392 [in Armenian].

Review Article

  • Marc Nichanian, (ed.), Yeghishe Charents: Poet of the Revolution. With the collaboration of Vartan Matiossian. Armenian Studies Series 5. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2003. Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies Vol. 16 (2007), 178-184.
  • “An Armenian Opening onto Modernity and Postmodernity.” Bazmavep, vol. CLXIV, 1-4 (2006), 568-581 [in Armenian].
  • Marush Yeramian et al (ed.s), Banasteghtsutiun, Vol. I (Alepo: Isfahani, 1999). I-Teb, Vol. II (2006), 24-32 [in Armenian].
  • “Diaspora Thinking and Nationalist Aesthetics,” Haratch (Paris), 8 (2002) [in Armenian].
  • “Rethinking Narekatsi” (Beledian, Krikor. Erkxōsut’iwn Narekac’ii het [Dialogue with Narekatsi]. Yerevan: Sargis Xač’enc’-Printinfo, 2008, 528pp). Asbarez, 13 Febr. (2009) [in Armenian].

Translations

  • “An Anthology of Poems by Jorge Luis Borges,” (translation into Armenian), Nork (Yerevan) 10 (2000).
  • “An Anthology of Poems by Ara Babayan,” (translation into Armenian), in Birthmark (Los Angeles: Open Letter, 1999), 52-75.

Book Reviews

  • Marc Nichanian (ed.), Kam, Handes Verlutsakan, Vol. 5 (Los Angeles: Abril, 2002) and Vol. 6 (Los Angeles: Abril, 2005). Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies Vol. 15 (2006), 231-234.
  • Levon Abrahamian and Nancy Sweezy (ed.s), Armenian Folk Arts, Culture, and Identity, (Indiana University Press: Bloomington and Indianapolis, 2001). Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies Vol. 13 (2004), 99-101.
  • Agop Hacikyan et al (ed.s), The Heritage of Armenian Literature: Vol. I – From the Oral Tradition to the Golden Age (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000). Haratch (Paris), November (2001).
  • Vartan Matiossian, Kostan Zarian (Beirut: G. Melitinetsi, 1998). Haratch (Paris), December (1999).

Courses

Undergraduate
  • Elementary Modern Western Armenian (Armenian 101A, Armenian 101B, Armenian 101C).
  • Intermediate Modern Western Armenian (Armenian 102A, Armenian 102B, Armenian 102C).
  • Language in Action: Creative Literacy in Armenian (Arm 188).
  • Language in Action: Producing and Creating in Armenian in Diaspora (Arm 171).