I am grateful for UCI Comparative Literature for having provided me with one of the most dynamic Ph.D. experiences in the country., Awards
Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) Research Start Grant, Leipzig, Summer 2021, Initiating a project on the literary and intellectual aspects of Armenian Diasporic experience in East-Central and Eastern Europe
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Armenian Studies Postdoctoral Scholarship, 2020-2021, Visiting Scholar at the Department of Armenian Studies, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary
Publications
«Արձագանգներ Վահէ Օշականէն» ("Reverberations from Vahé Oshagan"), an essay in Western Armenian for GAM Analytical and Critical Review (ԿԱՄ Հանդէս Վերլուծական եւ Քննադատական), No. 8, 2020-22, edited by Marc Nichanian
“Diasporic Inscriptions of Loss and Grief in Atom Egoyan’s Calendar” (Winter 2020 issue of The Projector: A Journal on Film, Media and Culture.)
“Vahé Oshagan’s Prose of the Absurd,” Pakin, No. 3, 2017 (An article in Armenian published with the editorial assistance of Marc Nichanian in a peer-reviewed diaspora Armenian literary journal.)
Diasporalogue, Serge Avédikian, Tigrane Yégavian, Editions Thaddée, 2017. (Translation from French to English, with the editorial assistance of Alec Ekmekji.)
Screening Memory. The Prosthetic Images of Atom Egoyan, Marie-Aude Baronian, Académie Royale De Belgique, 2017 (Translation from French to English with Stephen Clark.)
"Forgive me for all of those words," "There will be silence in the museum and phantom of death," "To explain without words," "The ruins call intensely with their stubborn," in Absinthe: A Journal of World Literature in Translation, No. 23, Unscripted: An Armenian Palimpsest, guest edited by Tamar Boyadjian, Fall 2017, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 51-57 (Translation of four poems by Vehanoush Tekian from Western Armenian to English.)
«Յետ-Խորհրդային Այլախոհութիւն (Վաչէ Սարգսեանի Ակեղդամա. անկրկնելի պատմութիւն վէպին հրատարակութեան առիթով)» ("Post-Soviet Dissidence (On the occasion of the publication of Vaché Sargsian's Akeghdama: An Unrepeatable Story)"), a book review in Western Armenian published in GAM Analytical and Critical Review (ԿԱՄ Հանդէս Վերլուծական եւ Քննադատական), No. 7, 2020-21, 115-125, edited by Marc Nichanian
“ExԱյլ: Krikor Beledian on Diasporic Multilingualism,” Critics' Forum, December, 2018 (book review in a peer-reviewed print and online publication)
“On Diasporic Cinema. Comments on Hrayr Anmahouni’s Vahé Oshagan: Between Acts,” Inknagir, October 2018 (film-review in Armenian in an online literary journal)
“On Movies That Move Us: An Interview with Gariné Torossian,” Critics' Forum, March 2015 (an interview in a peer-reviewed print and online publication)
“Questioning the Unquestionable: Marc Nichanian’s Mourning Philology,” Critics' Forum, August, 2014 (book review in a peer-reviewed print and online publication)
Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) Research Start Grant, Leipzig, Summer 2021, Initiating a project on the literary and intellectual aspects of Armenian Diasporic experience in East-Central and Eastern Europe
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Armenian Studies Postdoctoral Scholarship, 2020-2021, Visiting Scholar at the Department of Armenian Studies, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary
Publications
«Արձագանգներ Վահէ Օշականէն» ("Reverberations from Vahé Oshagan"), an essay in Western Armenian for GAM Analytical and Critical Review (ԿԱՄ Հանդէս Վերլուծական եւ Քննադատական), No. 8, 2020-22, edited by Marc Nichanian
“Diasporic Inscriptions of Loss and Grief in Atom Egoyan’s Calendar” (Winter 2020 issue of The Projector: A Journal on Film, Media and Culture.)
“Vahé Oshagan’s Prose of the Absurd,” Pakin, No. 3, 2017 (An article in Armenian published with the editorial assistance of Marc Nichanian in a peer-reviewed diaspora Armenian literary journal.)
Diasporalogue, Serge Avédikian, Tigrane Yégavian, Editions Thaddée, 2017. (Translation from French to English, with the editorial assistance of Alec Ekmekji.)
Screening Memory. The Prosthetic Images of Atom Egoyan, Marie-Aude Baronian, Académie Royale De Belgique, 2017 (Translation from French to English with Stephen Clark.)
"Forgive me for all of those words," "There will be silence in the museum and phantom of death," "To explain without words," "The ruins call intensely with their stubborn," in Absinthe: A Journal of World Literature in Translation, No. 23, Unscripted: An Armenian Palimpsest, guest edited by Tamar Boyadjian, Fall 2017, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 51-57 (Translation of four poems by Vehanoush Tekian from Western Armenian to English.)
«Յետ-Խորհրդային Այլախոհութիւն (Վաչէ Սարգսեանի Ակեղդամա. անկրկնելի պատմութիւն վէպին հրատարակութեան առիթով)» ("Post-Soviet Dissidence (On the occasion of the publication of Vaché Sargsian's Akeghdama: An Unrepeatable Story)"), a book review in Western Armenian published in GAM Analytical and Critical Review (ԿԱՄ Հանդէս Վերլուծական եւ Քննադատական), No. 7, 2020-21, 115-125, edited by Marc Nichanian
“ExԱյլ: Krikor Beledian on Diasporic Multilingualism,” Critics' Forum, December, 2018 (book review in a peer-reviewed print and online publication)
“On Diasporic Cinema. Comments on Hrayr Anmahouni’s Vahé Oshagan: Between Acts,” Inknagir, October 2018 (film-review in Armenian in an online literary journal)
“On Movies That Move Us: An Interview with Gariné Torossian,” Critics' Forum, March 2015 (an interview in a peer-reviewed print and online publication)
“Questioning the Unquestionable: Marc Nichanian’s Mourning Philology,” Critics' Forum, August, 2014 (book review in a peer-reviewed print and online publication)
Ph.D. UC Irvine, Ph.D. in Comparative Literature With Emphases on Critical Theory, Translation and Visual Studies, 2019
Thesis/Dissertation: Becoming Diaspora: Global Armenian Literature and Film After 1950
Research Interests: Diaspora, Multilingual Multiculturalism, Survival, Cultural production of Armenian diaspora (literature, film, multimedia works, etc.), critical theory, translation, film studies, genealogies of modern nationalism, Vahé Oshagan (1922-2000)
Migration ID
2291, 3588
Student Category
level
p, g
major
enter_yr
2012
grad_yr
2019
grad_term
Summer
phd_info
UC Irvine, Ph.D. in Comparative Literature With Emphases on Critical Theory, Translation and Visual Studies, 2019
place_info
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
appointment
Armenian Studies Program Postdoctoral Fellow
ind_code
EDU, NA
approval_recd
On
thesis
Becoming Diaspora: Global Armenian Literature and Film After 1950
research_int
Diaspora, Multilingual Multiculturalism, Survival, Cultural production of Armenian diaspora (literature, film, multimedia works, etc.), critical theory, translation, film studies, genealogies of modern nationalism, Vahé Oshagan (1922-2000)
Graduation Year