Education
2015 - 2016: Diplomatic School of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia
2007 - 2010: PhD research course in Linguistics and Intercultural Communication, Yerevan State University and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
2005 - 2007: Post-graduate student, Department of Translation Studies, English Section, Faculty of Romance-Germanic Philology, Yerevan State University
2001 - 2005: Department of Translation Studies, English Section, Faculty of Romance-Germanic Philology, Yerevan State University

Academic Degree
2010 “The Management of Culture-Bound Elements in Non-Native English Discourse” Diploma of Doctor of Philology from the Yerevan State University, Yerevan

Professional Experience
2016 - to date: Associate Professor at the Chair of Romance Philology of YSU, Courses taught in Italian include Language Specialization (Italian), Linguistic Typology, L2 for Scientific Communication, Contemporary Italian Political Discourse
2016 (May) – Visiting Professor at University of Naples "L'Orientale" (Lecture series on: Conceptual Approaches in Modern Linguistics (“Approcci concettuali alla linguistica moderna”))
2012 - 2016: Assistant Professor at the Chair of Romance Philology of YSU, Courses taught in Italian include Language Specialization (Italian), Linguistic Typology, L2 for Scientific Communication, Pragmalinguistics, Interrelation of Language and Culture, Founder of the «Tête-à-Tête» Distance Learning Program
2012 - 2013: Communications Officer of the Fund for Armenian Relief of America, Armenia Branch
2010: Lecturer of Italian language and Linguistic Typology
2006 - 2008: Translator/Interpreter, Atos Consulting Centre, Yerevan
2005 - 2006: Chief Coordinator, “Macsedan” The Private School Of Foreign Languages, Yerevan

Academic Courses
“Regional Integration Organisations as a Factor of the Modern Politics” workshop for young diplomats, jointly organized by the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), 19-23 November 2018, Moscow.
Linguistics (C2), Italian University for Foreigners (Università Italiana Per Stranieri), October-November 2013
PhD research course at the department of “Scienze del Linguaggio” of Ca’Foscari University of Venice, July-August 2009, Venice.
PhD research course at the department of “Scienze del Linguaggio” of Ca’Foscari University of Venice, September-December 2008, Venice.
Linguistics (C2), Italian University for Foreigners (Università Italiana Per Stranieri), November-December 2006, Perugia.

Participation in International Conferences and Seminars
Eurasian Translation Congress 1: “Translation and Education”, jointly organized by YSU Department of Translation Studies and the Institute of English Studies of the University of Rzeszów, October 2-4, 2019, YSU.
“Dalla sensibilizzazione al riconoscimento, attraverso la letteratura e la cinematografia” (“From Awareness-Raising to Recognition – Through Literature and Cinematography”), October 1, 2019, YSU.
“The Armenian World on the Internet” International conference organized by the Ministry of Diaspora of the Republic of Armenia and Yerevan State University, 26-26 August, 2016, YSU
II International scientific conference on Japanese Studies “Ex Oriente Lux”, 20-21 June, 2016, Russian-Armenian Slavonic University (RAU), Yerevan
“Modern linguistics in the interdisciplinary context”, 17-19 May, 2016, YSU
"Contemporary Issues of Methodology in Literary Criticism: Post-Modernism. After 20 Years" 8-10 February, 2013, Tsakhkadzor Writers House
"L'importanza dei tratti soprasegmentali nella comunicazione in italiano L2-LS" seminar led by Prof. Anna De Meo from Naples Eastern University, May 30 - June 1, 2012, Yerevan State Linguistic University after V. Brusov
"Language, Literature and Art in Cross-Cultural Contexts", Third International Conference, AASE, 4-8 October 2011, YSU
"Foreign Languages in Armenia. New Challenges, New Approaches", Young researchers' conference dedicated to the 90th anniversary of YSU, 14-15 April 2009, YSU.
"Language and Literature in the Contemporary Paradigm of Scientific Knowledge", Second International Conference, AASE, 16-19 October 2007, YSU

Membership
Member of the "Foreign Languages - 009" Specialized Research Council of the Supreme Certifying Committee of Armenia.

Participation in Editorial Groups
Since January 2019 - Honorary Member of “Centro Studi Hrand Nazariantz” Scientific Research Center of Bari, Italy
2017 - to date: Member of Scientific Council of "Quaderni di AION-Linguistica", "L'Orientale" University of Naples

Scale of professional interests
Intercultural Communication, Comparative Linguistics, Translation Studies, Semiotics

Languages
Armenian (mother tongue), Russian, English, Italian (fluent), Japanese (basic)

g.ghazaryan@ysu.am