Education
1991-1996: YSU, Faculty of Oriental Studies
2002-2005: Post-YSU, Faculty of Oriental Studies (PhD student in Iranian Literature)

Academic Degree
2008: PhD- (“Women Issues in Modern Iranian Literature”) (World Literature), 01. 07 2008 Yerevan State University, Armenia
2010: Associate Professor

Experience
2005 -2011: Acharyan University, Yerevan Armenia, Chair of Oriental Studies, Associate Professor
2006 – 2010: YSLU after V. Brusov, UNESCO Chair on Human Rights, Democracy and
European Studies, Assistant Professor
2007-till now: YSLU after V. Brusov, Chair of World Literature and Culture, Associate Professor
2010-till now: Yerevan State University Faculty of Oriental Studies, Associate Professor

Academic Curses
Orient-Occident Literary, Cultural Relations,
The History of Middle and Near Eastern Cinema
Portraying Orient in World Culture
Persian as a Second Language

Scope of Scientific Interest
Exile and Migration in Literature of Middle East, Orientalism in Literature and Art, Oriental Culture, Middle East Cinema, Modern Iranian Literature, Sufism in World Literature, Islamic Feminism

Professional membership
Member of the Council of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, YSU
Member of MESEA (The Society of Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and Americas)

Languages
Armenian, Russian, English, Persian, German