Faculty

Shushan Avagyan received her PhD in English Studies from Illinois State University with a specialization in Translation Studies and a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies. She has taught comparative literature courses and translation workshops since 2006. Her articles and translations have appeared in numerous publications, including The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Contemporary Women’s Writing, Music & Literature, and Dissidences: Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism. She is the translator of Energy of Delusion: A Book on Plot, Bowstring: On the Dissimilarity of the Similar, A Hunt for Optimism and The Hamburg Score by Viktor Shklovsky (Dalkey Archive), Art and Production by Boris Arvatov (Pluto), and I Want To Live: Poems of Shushanik Kurghinian (AIWA). She is the coordinator of the Graduate Certificate in Translation Program at AUA.

E-mail: [email protected]

Phone: +37460 61 2736

Office location: PAB 129W

Tatevik Avetisyan has been an adjunct lecturer at the American University of Armenia since 2016 teaching PR and Discourse Analysis courses.

Tatevik Avetisyan brings insights from her expertise in providing strategic communication consultancy to local and international businesses, international organizations, diplomatic missions, and academic settings. For over 14 years she has been practicing PR and communications with corporate and humanitarian organizations in Armenia and internationally.

Tatevik Avetisyan has been leading the PR Unit and projects at Deem Communications since 2011. Together with DEEM, AUA and IREX she initiated the first ever PR Summit in Armenia, a professional event that hosts local and international experts since 2014. Currently, she is also a communication and training expert in “Support to EU Communication on Reforms in Armenia II” project.

She enjoys sharing, teaching, mentoring, traveling and connecting ideas and people to reveal their full potential.

Tatevik Avetisyan holds an MA degree with the focus on Public Relations from Ball State University, Indiana, U.S. Her undergraduate specialty is in English, Spanish and teaching from Yerevan State Linguistic University after V. Brusov.

Education: 

• 2009-2011, MA, Ball State University, IN, U.S. (Muskie Fellow)
• 1998-2000, 5-year Diploma with Honor (English & Spanish, Teacher), Yerevan State Linguistic University after V. Brusov
• 2001-2002, Non-degree exchange program, Education/methodology (FSA-Ugrad), University of Wyoming, WY, U.S.

Courses taught:

• EC232 – Public Relations
• EC200 – Introduction to Discourse Analysis

Publications:

• “PR: Environmental Factors”: Emporium PR/Marketing Magazine, March 2013
• “Blindness – Not an Obstacle to Success”: www.a1plus.am, November 10, 2007: (The article was written in the framework of “South Caucasus – A Part of Europe” workshop, Eurasia Partnership Foundation, Armenia).
• “What Do You Know about Arine?”: the Sevan newspaper, issue # 14, December 6, 2004.
• “World Mental Health Day in Gavar”: the Geghama Ashkhar newspaper, issue # 13, November 4, 2004.

Research database IDs:

• https://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/handle/123456789/194724

Awards:

• Winner of Ball State University Department of Journalism Louie Award (2010)

Email: [email protected]

Phone: +37460 61 2581

Office location: 607MB

Office hours: may change – Fall T TH 10:00-12:00; Spring MWF 10:30 -12:30 or T TH 10:00- 12:00

Dr Melissa Beattie was awarded a PhD in Theatre, Film and TV Studies from Aberystwyth University where she studied Torchwood and national identity through fan/audience research as well as textual analysis. She has published and presented several papers relating to transnational television, audience research and/or national identity. She has worked at universities in the US, South Korea and Pakistan and is currently an Assistant Professor of English and Communications at the American University of Armenia.

Higher education

January 2017, PhD Aberystwyth University

December 2012, MPhil Cardiff University

December 2006, MA Bristol University

September 2002, BA SUNY Buffalo

Courses taught:

• EC 104 – Introduction to Communication
• EC 238 – Media and Society
• EC 290 – Research Methods

Publications: 

Potts, L., Beattie, M, et al. Forthcoming.  ‘A Digital Archive of the Ianto Memorial in Cardiff Bay.’  Digital project with the WIDE Institute and Dr Liza Potts.

Beattie, M. Forthcoming. ‘Still.’ in Smith?, S. (ed). Outside In 9. Baltimore, ATB Press.

Beattie, M. and Mitchell, L. 2021. ‘”The Filthiest Gutter of the Realm”?: Negotiating and Negotiated Australian Identities in Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries.’ at The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture.

Beattie, M. 2021.  ‘Receptio Non Immaculata.’ in Smith?, S. (ed). Outside In 8. Baltimore: ATB Press.

Beattie, M. 2020. ‘”Like An American But Without a Gun”?: Canadian National Identity and the Kids in the Hall.’ Participations 17.2. Available at https://www.participations.org/Volume%2017/Issue%202/contents.htm.

Beattie, M. 2020. ‘Skinner’s Sense of Style.’ in Smith?, R. (ed). Outside In 7. Baltimore: ATB Press.

Beattie, M. 2019.  ‘Comedy with Consequences.’ Peephole Journal, Vol 12. Available at: http://www.peepholejournal.tv/issue/12/01-beattie/

Beattie, M. 2019. ‘Fan Dancing.’ Smith?, R. (ed). Outside In Gets a Soul. Baltimore: ATB Press.

Attfield, R. and Beattie, M. 2019. ‘Opinion on the Paris Conference, Compensation and Climate Change.’ Electronic Green Journal Vol 1. No 42.  Available at https://escholarship.org/uc/uclalib_egj .

Beattie, M. 2018. ‘What Can You Make Out of a Sword?’ Smith?, R. (ed). Outside In Takes a Stab. Baltimore: ATB Press.

Potts, L., Beattie, M., Dallaire, E., Grimes, K. and Turner, K. 2018. Participatory Memory: Fandom Experiences Across Time and Space. Enculturation Intermezzo Digital Press. Available at: intermezzo.enculturation.net/06-potts-et-al.htm

Beattie, M. 2017. ‘”The Problem Seems to be an American with No Sense of Timing or Fashion:” Costume and National Identity in Torchwood.’ Journal of Film, Fashion and Consumption. Vol 6.2. 123-140. available at: https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=3432/

Beattie, M. 2017. “‘My’ Hero or Epic Fail? Torchwood as Transnational Telefantasy.” Palabra Clave. Vol 20 No 3. Available at http://palabraclave.unisabana.edu.co/index.php/palabraclave/issue/view/257.

Beattie, M.  2017. ‘Breaking Things,’ in Smith?, R. (ed) Outside In Makes It So.  Baltimore: ATB Press.

Beattie, M. 2016. ‘Remembrances of Things Unseen.’ in Smith?, R. (ed) Outside In Boldly Goes.  Baltimore: ATB Press.

Cubbison, L. and Beattie, M. 2015.  Ethics in the Agents of SHIELD. [online] Available at https://sites.google.com/site/ethicsintheagentsofshield/home.

Beattie, M. 2015.  ‘Who’s Town is it Anyway’ in Smith?, R. (ed) Outside In: Vol 2.  Baltimore: ATB Press.

Beattie, M. 2014. ‘A Most Peculiar Memorial: Cultural Heritage and Fiction’, in J. Schofield (ed). Who Needs Experts? Counter-Mapping Cultural Heritage. Aldershot: Ashgate. 215-224. Available at https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B86HmVXnD53rRGp4NVczLVZrWVE

Beattie, M. 2013.  ‘The ‘Doctor Who Experience’ (2012—) and the Commodification of Cardiff Bay’ in M. Hills, (ed). New Dimensions of Doctor Who. London: I.B. Tauris. Available at https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B86HmVXnD53reS1FeDN

Beattie, M. 2012. ‘Stop All the Clocks,’ in Smith? R., (ed). Outside In. Baltimore: ATB Press.

Beattie, M.. 2011.  ‘A Preliminary Report on the First Excavation Season (1 June-15 July, 2047) at Zombie Assault Site UK546– Newport, South Wales,’ in Smith?, R. et al. (eds). Braaaiiinnnsss: From Academics to Zombies, Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press.

Beattie, M. 2011. ‘Whoniversal Translation,’ in Burk, G., Smith?, R.. (eds). Time, Unincorporated (Volume 3), Mad Norwegian Press: Des Moines.

Beattie, M. 2011. ‘Landmark Television: A Fan’s Life in Cardiff.‘ in Burk, G., Smith?, R., (eds). Time, Unincorporated (Volume 3), Mad Norwegian Press: Des Moines.

Beattie, M. 2010. ‘Zero to Hero? Aeneas in The Iliad and Posthomerica,’ Rosetta, Vol 8. [online] Available at http://www.rosetta.bham.ac.uk/issue8supp/.

Beattie, M. 2010. ‘Life During Wartime: Wartime Morality in Doctor Who,’ in Burdge, A., et al. (eds). The Mythological Dimensions of Doctor Who, Kitsune Press: Tallahassee.

Beattie, M., 2010. ‘A Kiss is Just a Kiss (Except When It’s Not): Life and Breath in the Whoniverse,’ in Garner R , Beattie, M.., McCormack U., (eds). Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things: Cultural Perspectives on Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures, Cambridge Scholars Press, Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Garner R., Beattie, M., McCormack U., (eds). 2010.  Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things: Cultural Perspectives on Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures, Cambridge Scholars Press: Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Garner R., Beattie, M., McCormack U., 2010. ‘Introductory Chapter,’ in Garner R.,Beattie, M., McCormack U., (eds). Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things: Cultural Perspectives on Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures, Cambridge Scholars Press: Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Piccini, A.A., and, Beattie, M., 2006.  ‘Conflicting Sounds,’ British Archaeology, September/October, pp. 56-57.

Presentations and Invited Talks:

2 August 2021. ‘Good Taste: Travel Food Series as Quality TV,’ at the Critical Studies in Television Conference. Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqwINQtT4-k&list=PLBrk-wPNLaVn8h21oryiYpbimT8tMdBBp&index=1 .

11 July 2021. ‘Seeing and “Here-ing:” Use and Interpretation of Banal Diegetic Nationalism,’ at the IAMCR Conference.

19 June, 2021. ‘Media Theory and Methods for Classics and Allied Fields,’ at the Xena: 20 Years On Conference.

11 March, 2021. ‘”You Can Get It If You Really Want:” The Use of Caribbean Music Genres in Death in Paradise,’ for the British Audio-Visual Research Network’s Spring Virtual Colloquia series.

2 October, 2020. ‘“Where the Heartland Is?” Problematised Oklahoma and Oklahomans in Leverage,’ at the Midwestern Popular Culture and American Cultural Association Conference.

3 August, 2020. ‘”What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?!”: Use and Representation of Romanitas by Contemporary British Media and Culture,’ for the Swansea University Summer Seminar series ‘Myth and Politics.’  Available from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9eHtyXFeGw .

23 July 2020. (Dr John Riley and Dr Melissa Beattie) ‘Stalking the Zone: Fan Tourism, Tarkovsky and Chernobyl.’ at the virtual Besides the Screen Conference.  Available from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k55JZLWoeSY .

8 August, 2019.  ‘Meaning-Making and the Media Text,’ workshop for the Department of Media Sciences, Szabist University.

16 October, 2018. ‘Semiotics and Representation (or How I Learnt to Start Worrying and Question My Every Decision),’ for the Continuing Professional Development Bonus series, Woosong University.

11 November, 2017. ‘Introduction to Fan Studies,’ for the 80s Basement Lecture series, Salt Lake City, Utah.

5 May 2017. ‘Eight Years [G]on[e]: A Study of the Torchwood Memorial in Cardiff Bay,’  at ‘Ritual ‘Litter’ Redressed: The heritage of contemporary deposits’ at the University of Hertsfordshire.

28 April 2017. (Dr Liza Potts and Dr Melissa Beattie) ‘‘Ceci n’est pas un Site Archeologique:’ Contemporary Archaeology, Fan Studies and the Public/Private Interface.’ Public Archaeology Twitter Conference.

8 December, 2016. ‘”Who Is He (and What Is He to You)?”: Identity, Narrative Complexity and the Hallmarks of Quality Cult in Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD‘ at the Superheroes and Identity Symposium.

20 July, 2016. ‘My Hero: National Identity and Discourses of Torchwood.’ at the NAASWCH conference.

24 June, 2016. ‘Epic Fail? Torchwood and National Epic.’ at the Celtic Classical Conference.

23 May, 2016. ‘My’ Hero: Transnational Torchwood.’ at the Cultural Transduction Conference.

19 August, 2014. (Dr Amanda Potter and Melissa Beattie): ‘Res Gestae per Televisionem Nuntio Divi Augusti: Octavian and Rome.’  At Leeds’ Augustus Bimillennial Symposium.

12-14 June, 2014. ‘”The Problem Seems to be an American with No Sense of Timing or Fashion:” Costume and National Identity in Torchwood.’ at Fashion and Fiction.

13 April, 2014. ”I’d be hopelessly trying to flirt with some guy; meanwhile, your dad would get a date with his sister.’  ‘Greek’ love and Caprica.’ at Classical Association Annual Meeting 2014.

1 July, 2013. ‘”Always Faithful to the Soil:” Autochthony, Genre and Language in Caprica.’ at Swords, Sorcery, Sandals and Space.

21 March, 2013. ‘Insert Clever Title Here: Problems with Presenting a PhD in Progress’ at Aberystwyth University’s TFTS Departmental Conference 2013.

20 July, 2011. ”That is so Welsh!’: Torchwood and National Identity’ at Alien Nation 2011.

19 December, 2010. ‘A Most Peculiar Memorial’ at TAG 2010.

18 June, 2010. ‘Ne Memoria Excidat: A Study of the Impromptu Ianto Jones Memorial in Cardiff Bay.’ at Investigating Torchwood: Text, Context, Audiences.

26 May, 2010. Panelist at book launch for The Mythological Dimensions of Doctor Who.

10 April, 2010. ‘Stoic Elements in Gallifreyan society (or how I learnt to stop worrying and just not interfere)’ at the Classical Association Annual Meeting 2010.

14 November, 2009. ‘Zero to Hero? Aeneas in The Iliad.‘ at AMPAL 2009.

1 May, 2009. ‘Unfiltered Camels: The Military Use of Camels by the Romans.’ Part of ICS ‘Work in Progress’ lecture series.

15 November, 2008. ‘A Kiss is Just a Kiss (Except When It’s Not): Life and Breath in the Whoniverse,’ at  ‘Whoniversal’ Appeal: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference on Doctor Who and All of its Spin-Offs.

14 October, 2008. ‘Unfiltered Camels: The Military Use of Camels by the Romans.’ Part of lecture series in aid of  ‘Whoniversal’ Appeal: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference on Doctor Who and All of its Spin-Offs.

28 May, 2007. Panelist/moderator at international, media-based convention (Media*West) for panel discussion on narrative consistency in modern mythology.

Creative Work:

1 October, 2020-present. Research Support Officer and Social Media Manager, Shattered, Lesser of 2 Weevils Productions, Manchester, UK.

• Researched financial and distribution systems
• Ran Twitter and Instagram accounts for different characters
• Helped manage YouTube channel and website (WordPress)
• Distributed Kickstarter rewards

30 November, 2019.  Writer, ‘Winning,’ Daejeon Ten Minute Play Festival, Jungu Cultural Centre, Daejeon, Korea.

17 November, 2018. Director, Writer and Advertising, A Total [S]Hit Show, Jungu Cultural Centre, Daejeon, Korea.

Directed sketches, including from the booth

Wrote and performed interstitial sketches

Involved in creation, purchase, maintenance and repair of props and costumes

Involved in developing production design and set decoration

Assisted in creating advertising strategy

19 February, 2012. Lyricist, song ‘Mine, All Mine,’ Workin Process 3, Iris Theatre.

December 2010-December 2012. Head of Translation, Culture and History Team, Writer on Graphic Novels team, Resonance.

• Historical research and coordination of same
• Translation and coordination of translation
• Development of artificial language (artlang), including grammar, syntax,     vocabulary and orthography
• Author of graphic novel The Golden Bough

12 June, 2010. Writer of World Domination: A Simple Plan, Sitcom Saturday, Real Deal Theatre.

September 1996-March 1998. Staff Writer, Scientific Consultant, Editor, Webseries seaQuest 2047.

Writing and developing scripts and ideas on deadline.

Editing finished scripts for both scientific accuracy and for general quality.

Consulting with other writers/staff members.

Office location: PAB 137W

Office hours: M 1100-1230; T 1200-1330

Viken Berberian received his Msc from the London School of Economics and Msc from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He teaches persuasive writing, expository writing, business journalism, creative nonfiction, and the graphic novel: comics as literature. His work has appeared in the New York Times, The Nation, the Financial Times, Bomb, Granta, Foreign Affairs, Le Monde Diplomatique, Inculte (Editions Inculte, France) and the New York Review of Books. He is the author of the novels, The Cyclist (Simon & Schuster, 2002), and Das Kapital: a novel of love & money markets (Simon & Schuster, 2007), and with Yann Kebbi, of the graphic novel, The Structure is Rotten, Comrade (Fantagraphics, 2019; Actes Sud, France, 2017; Edition Moderne, Switzerland, 2020, in German).

E-mail: [email protected]

Phone: +37460 61 25 22

Office location: PAB 118W

Website: http://vikenberberian.com/

Christian Garbis earned his Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Lesley University. He teachers Expository Writing, Persuasive Writing, Writing For Media, and Technical Writing. His news articles, commentaries, and essays have appeared in Hetq Online, The Armenian Weekly, and Roads and Kingdoms. Christian is the author of two acclaimed blogs, Notes From Hairenik and Footprints Armenia, on which he discusses social and political issues and conveys intimate descriptions of daily life in Armenia. A third blog, The Great Garbanzo, details his culinary adventures. Apart from his prose writing, he has also written a novel, a screenplay, and numerous short stories, and he has made several short experimental films. Christian was born and raised in Greater Boston but now resides in Yerevan, Armenia. He is the father of two beaming young sons.

E-mail: [email protected]

Phone: +37460 61 2681

Office location: PAB 134W

Eric Grigorian is a photojournalist with almost two decades of experience documenting everything from conflict zones to politics to celebrities to natural disasters. His clients have included Time, Newsweek, NY Times, Boston Globe and numerous other magazines and newspapers in the U.S. and abroad. Eric was the recipient of the World Press Photo award in 2003.

After a long period of living and working in Los Angeles, Eric moved to Yerevan in 2013 where he also dedicates part of his time teaching visual storytelling and photography. He currently teaches Introduction to Photography at AUA.

E-mail: [email protected]

Phone: +37460 61 2749

Office location: PAB 117W

Mica Hilson earned his MA in English and a BA in Mathematics from Emory University at age 18, then went on to earn his PhD in English from Indiana University. At AUA, he teaches the first-year course in Communications and the fourth-year Research Methods and Capstone courses, along with classes in American Literature and Discourse Analysis. His research on modern and contemporary literature, culture, and critical theory has appeared in a variety of scholarly journals, including The Comparatist, Doris Lessing Studies, and The Harold Pinter Review, as well as numerous essay collections, ranging from Security and Hospitality in Literature and Culture to The Ethics and Rhetoric of Invasion Ecology

Higher education

• 2010, PhD in English, Indiana University
• 1998, MA in English, Emory University
• 1998, BA in Mathematics, Emory University

Courses taught:

• EC 104 – Introduction to Communications
• EC 120 – American Literature
• EC 121 – English Literature
• EC 200 – Discourse Analysis
• EC 290 – Research Methods
• EC 299 – Capstone

Publications:

• “The Cost of Whimsy in Mood Indigo and The Grand Budapest Hotel” in Re:Focus: The Works of Michel Gondry, eds. Jennifer Kirby and Marcelline Block. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP (forthcoming in early 2020).
• “Desire and Risk Management in Contagion Fiction” in Bodies of Contagion, eds. S.A. Polak, et al. Cardiff: U of Wales Press (forthcoming in early 2020).
• “Slipping Queer Under the Radar” in Curricular Innovations: LGBTQ Literatures and the New English Studies, eds. William P. Banks and John Pruitt. New York: Peter Lang (2019).
• “Reimagining the Family Tree: Property, Biopolitics, and Queer Kinship in David Malouf’s Remembering Babylon and Patrick White’s Riders in the Chariot.” Pacific Coast Philology 53.2 (2018).
• “’Rubbish of All Kinds’: Domesticity, Squalor, and Squatting in Doris Lessing’s Fiction.” Doris Lessing Studies 36.1 (2018).
• “The Little Revolution That Could: What can the world learn from Armenia’s successful uprising against a would-be strongman?” Slate 10 May 2018.
• “Bath-Time and Cruising Time: Temporality, Tension, and Release in Pinter.” Harold Pinter Review 1 (2017): 50-65.
• “The Forces of Habit and the Ethics of Self-Composture.” The Comparatist 40 (2016): 128-43.
• “Rooting for the Unrooted: Invasive Species and Uncanny Ecosystems in Peter Carey’s ‘Exotic Pleasures’” in The Ethics and Rhetoric of Invasion Ecology, eds. James Stanescu and Kevin Cummings. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016. 141-58.
• “A Dwarf at the Table: Hospitality and the Non-Normate Body in Modern Literature” in Security and Hospitality in Literature and Culture, eds. Jeffrey Clapp and Emily Ridge. London: Routledge, 2015.
• “‘The odd man out in the family?’ Queer Throwbacks and Reproductive Futurism in The Fifth Child” Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism Yearbook 2013, Vol. 370, ed. Lawrence J. Trudeau. Farmington Hills: Cengage/Gale, 2015.
• “A Doctor for Who(m)?: Queer Temporalities and the Sexualized Child.” Co-written with Adrianne Wadewitz. Bookbird. 2014.
• “Sharing Economies and Value Systems on the Nifty Archive” in The Feminist and Queer Information Studies Reader, eds. Rebecca Dean and Patrick Keilty. Los Angeles: Litwin, 2013.
• “‘The odd man out in the family?’ Queer Throwbacks and Reproductive Futurism in The Fifth Child” in Doris Lessing Studies 30.1 (2011): 18-22.
• “The ‘Problem’ of William Styron in The Confessions of Nat Turner” in Literary Griot: International Journal of Black Expressive Cultural Studies 14.1-2 (2002): 103-23.

E-mail: [email protected]

Phone: +37460 61 26 71

Office location: PAB 120W

Office hours: 1:00-2:30 MWF

Elitza Kotzeva has a PhD in English Studies with a focus on Rhetoric from Washington State University. She holds a Certificate in Applied Literary Translation from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and graduate degrees in Slavic Languages (Czech, Slovak, and Bulgarian), Local Development, and English Literature from universities in Bulgaria, Italy, and the United States. Her research explores the intersections of material rhetorics, performance studies, feminist geography, and rhetorical ethnography. Elitza’s publications appear in journals dedicated to the study of material culture and rhetoric. She has published translations in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation, and Apofenie.

Higher education:

• 2019, PhD in English, Washington State University
• 2015, Certificate in Applied Literary Translation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 2012, MA in English, Appalachian State University
• 2004, МА in Local Development, University of Trento and University of Bolzano, Italy
• 2002, MA in Slavic Studies: Czech, Slovak, and Bulgarian, Sofia University, Bulgaria

Courses taught:

• EC 121 English Literature Survey
• EC 120 American Literature Survey
• EC 213 Digital Literacy and Multimodal Composition
• EC 290 Research Methods
• EC 299 Capstone Research
• CTRA 381 History and Theories of Translation (graduate class)

Publications: 

• “Stuck between Traditional, Soviet, and post-Soviet Rhetoric: A Feminist Ecological Study of Armenian Left-behind Rural Women Negotiating Gender Roles.” Work in Progress.
• “Queering Bulgarian Pop Folk, or Injecting Critical Theory into Chalga.” Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans. Forthcoming in 2023.
• “Counter-Mapping for Resistance and Cultivation of Counter-Memory: The Social Life of Some Nagorno Karabakh Maps.” Special Issue: Social Lives of Maps. The Material Culture Review. Forthcoming in April 2022.
• “Grotesque Representations of the Rhetorical Grotesque: From Choragraphy to Performance.” enculturation. Forthcoming in summer 2022.
• Portrait of a National Wound: Sketches of Armenia / Портрет на една народна болка: щрихи от Армения. Documentary Fiction. Forthcoming in 2022.  
• “Down the Rabbit Hole.” Our Body of Work: Embodied Teaching and Administration in Writing Studies. eds. Anna Sciari and Melissa Nicolas. Boulder: U of Colorado Press, 2022.
• Collaboration with Garabet Kazanjian & Lilit Khachatryan, “From Sacred to Sacrilegious: Armenian Human-Water Relations.” Media Seascape and the Criminal Imaginary. In Media Res, November, 2021.
• “From Concerto for Sentence by Emiliya Dvoryanova, translated by Elitza Kotzeva.” Review of Contemporary Fiction, 33 (1):  46-51. Dalkey Archive Press, 2013.
• “Czech Short Fiction.” Critical Survey of Short Fiction. Pasadena: Salem Press, 2012.

Translations:

• Poetry by poets of the Bulgarian circle New Social Poetry. Apofenie. Volume 7: Justice. June 2019.
• Excerpt from Invisibleby Nataliya Deleva. Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation. Fall 2018 Issue. The University of Iowa.
• Concerto for Sentence by Emiliya Dvoryanova. Urbana-Champaign: Dalkey Archive Press, 2016. (Bulgarian to English)
• “From Concerto for Sentence by Emiliya Dvoryanova, translated by Elitza Kotzeva.” Review of Contemporary Fiction, 33 (1): 46-51. Dalkey Archive Press, 2013.
• Born under a Lucky Star by Ilona Lacková. Centre de Recherches Tsiganes, Université “René Descartes”, Paris, France. Sofia: Litavra Publishing, 2000. (Czech to Bulgarian)

E-mail: [email protected]

Phone: +37460 61 26 72

Office location: PAB 131W

Office hours: MWF 11:30—12:30

Website: www.elitzakotzeva.com

Ruben Malayan is an an award-winning art director and visual artist. His career in graphic design spans over twenty years – crossing over into the fields of visual identity design, typography and calligraphy. Over the years he has lectured and taught workshops of calligraphy in the United States, Canada, Russia, Poland, Romania and Armenia. Ruben’s work has been published in a number of books and magazines in Israel, Armenia, US, Netherlands and France. He exhibits art locally and abroad.

Education:

• May 1993, MA, Graphics, Yerevan State Institute of Fine Arts
• May 1990 BA, Painting, Yerevan State Art College

Courses taught:

• EC 269 – Visual Communication

Publications:

• Armenian section of  ‘The World Encyclopedia of Calligraphy’ Sterling Publishing, NYC 2011

Awards: 

• 2015 Best Digital Entry at Centennial Art Contest of LA City Council
• 1999 UNDP Armenia Internet Project and Sard 99 Armenian Website Prize Jury. Title of winner in the category “Armenian FREENET Choice”- for good design by means of computer technologies and wonderful art

Websites:

www.15levels.com

www.ArmenianCalligraphy.com

www.ArmenianGenocidePosters.org

E-mail: [email protected]

Phone: +37460 61 2581

Office location: 607MB

Office hours: 11:00-12:00AM (Wednesday & Friday)

A writer and journalist, Maria has over a decade of experience reporting the news from Armenia and the region. She is the Founding Editor of EVN Report, an English-language news magazine. She was Associate Editor of the Armenian Reporter, Managing Editor at CivilNet, and a regular contributor to a number of Diaspora publications. She teaches Media & Society, Introduction to Journalism, and Research Methods.

E-mail: [email protected]

Phone: +37460 61 2745

Office location: PAB 131W

Gariné Torossian is a filmmaker and visual artist. Retrospectives of her work have been shown at the MoMa, Centre Pompidou, Film Forum, and the Berlinale. Her work has garnered a number of awards, including best documentary at the Warsaw international film festival and best short at the Berlinale. Her work has been broadcast on Arte France and the Sundance Channel. She is a recipient of a DAAD (Berliner Künstlerprogramm) filmmaker fellowship in Berlin.

E-mail: [email protected]

Phone: +37460 61 2522

Office location: PAB 118W

Syuzanna Torosyan holds her BA in English and a Second/Foreign Language Teaching from Yerevan Brusov State University of Languages and Social Sciences, and an MA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language from American University of Armenia. She joined AUA in 2011 as a recruitment and student progress coordinator, and a general English instructor at AUA Extension program. Currently she teaches Introduction to the Structure of English, and Freshman Seminar. Her interests lie in the areas of teacher training, program evaluation, and classroom assessment. She has actively been involved in research projects, presented in a number of local and international conferences, and published in a professional journal. Syuzanna is the author of a book on the impact of formative assessment on EFL Learners’ vocabulary enhancement.

E-mail: [email protected]

Phone: +37460 61 2735

Office location: PAB 107W