Education (beginning with IHE)
2009 Doctor of Philological Sciences (title of the thesis: The Poetics of the
Fairy Tale, Abeghian Institute of Literature, Yerevan).
1991 Candidate of Philological Sciences (title of the thesis: Linguistic and
Cognitive Peculiarities of Nonsense Texts, Moscow State Linguistic University),
1988-1991 Moscow State Linguistic University,
1981-1986 Yerevan State University.

Professional Experience
2017- present Editor of Children’s Literature at Zangak Publishers,
2010- present Editor of Hasker: Yearbook of Children’s Literature and Folklore.
2009-present Editor of Voske Divan: A Journal of Fairy Tale Studies,
2009 –present Head of the Centre for Fairy Tale Studies, Toumanian Museum,Yerevan,
2007-2009 Chair of Language Theory and Cross-Cultural Communication, Armenian-Russian (Slavonic) University,
1991- present Teaches Comparative Folklore Studies and Stylistics, Yerevan State University

Research Work
2020 On an Armenian translation of Seumas MacManus’ ‘The old hag’s long
leather bag’” in Ó Corráin, Ailbhe, Fionntán de Brún and Maxim Fomin, eds., Scotha cennderca cen on: A Festschrift for Séamus Mac Mathúna. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Celtica Upsaliensia 10. Uppsala: Uppsala University.
2018 Anthropomorphic Dolls as Otherworldly Helpers //https://hal-univ-paris13.archives-ouvertes.fr/ITRA2018/.
2012 Metamorphosis as a Major Fairy Tale Trope in Irish and Armenian Fairy Tales, Language History and Narrative. Journal of Indo-European Studies. Monograph Series 61, Washington D.C.
2009 Spinning and Speech in Armenian Versions of “Kind and Unkind Girls”
(ATU 480). Cosmos: The Journal of the Traditional Cosmology Society, vol. 23 for 2007, Edinburgh.
2007 Christianization of Fairies in Armenia. Armenian Folia Anglistika, (AASE International Journal of English Studies). Yerevan, 1(3).
2007- Neutralization of Tropes in Fairy Tales, Folklore, 7, vol. 136. Tartu.

Conferences
2019 From Brothers Grimm to Luigi Capuana: the Poetics of Fairy Tale
Transformations in Hovhannes Toumanian’s Translations // 150th Anniversary of Komitas and Hohannes Toumanian. Gorky Institute of World Literature, Moscow, 20-22 September.
2019 From Authorship to Anonymity: on the Authority of the Mediating
Text//Brigding East and West: Hovhannes Toumanian and the Art of Fairy Tale Translating. Toumanian Museum Yerevan, October 11-13.
2018 Dolls in Folk Tales and Children’s Literature (an intertextual study) // 8th
World Conference, International Toy Research Association, Toys and Material Culture, Paris, 12-13 July.
2018 Anthropomorphic Dolls as Otherworldly Helpers in the International Folk Tale // Irish Conference of Folklore and Ethnography, Ulster University, Belfast, 17 November.
2015 Textual and Intersemiotic Transformations of Lewis Carroll’s Alice Tales. Alice through the Ages. University of Cambridge.
2012 The Intertextual Transformations of Grimms’ Tales. After Grimm: Fairy Tales and the Art of Storytelling. Kingston University London.

Conference Organizing
2009-2019 - has organized ten fairy tale conferences at Toumanian Museum, Yerevan.