Researchers

Poet, translator, literary scholar
PhD in Philology
Lecturer at the Yerevan State University
In 1998, she received a Bachelor's degree (Licence) in French Literature from the University of Montpellier Paul Valéry. In 1999, at the same university, she received a "Maîtrise" degree in French literature for a study on the theme "The Aesthetics of Death in the Works of Yves Bonnefoy" (L'esthétique de la mort dans l'œuvre d'Yves Bonnefoy). In 2000, at the same university, she defended her Advanced Studies Diploma in French Literature on the topic "The Poetics of the Elsewhere in Yves Bonnefoy's Works: From The Lure of the Threshold to The Wandering Life" (La poétique de l’Ailleurs dans l’œuvre d’Yves Bonnefoy, de L’Arrière-pays à La Vie errante). In 2006, she defended her PhD dissertation (thèse de doctorat en littérature française) in French Literature at the University of Montpellier Paul Valéry on the topic "Yves Bonnefoy's Dream: Towards a Poetics of Translation" (Le rêve d’Yves Bonnefoy ; pour une poétique de la traduction).
Since 2014, she has been lecturing at Yerevan State University (YSU) in the Faculty of Romance and Germanic Philology, and later in the Faculty of European Languages and Communication, teaching translation, French literature, and civilization. Since 2013, she has been working at "Nairi" Publishing House, serving as its Editor-in-Chief since 2022.
Articles and Studies
"The Life of the Landscape in Ivan Bunin's Prose: Exile and Exoticism in the Armenian and French Translations of the Short Story 'The Caucasus'", M. Abeghyan Institute of Literature of NAS RA, Literary Journal, 2026-1, pp. 164–180
"The Poetic Duality of Lake Van in the French Translation of Hovhannes Toumanian's Poem 'Akhtamar'", M. Abeghyan Institute of Literature of NAS RA, Literary Journal, 2025-1, pp. 202–216
"In Search of Artistic Equivalence: Some Observations on the French Translations of Hovhannes Toumanian's Short Stories", M. Abeghyan Institute of Literature of NAS RA, Literary Journal, 2024-2, pp. 231–259
"Syntax as a Means of Meaning Construction in the Translation of Artistic Prose (Hugo, Nerval, Bonnefoy, Toumanian, Totovents, Bakunts)", M. Abeghyan Institute of Literature of NAS RA, Literary Journal, 2024-1, pp. 165–185
Books Authored
White Stones, Yerevan, "Nairi" Publishing House, 2026, 256 pp.
Anemone, Yerevan, "Edit Print" Publishing House, 2025, 350 pp.
The Malachite Turtle, Yerevan, "Edit Print" Publishing House, 2023, 375 pp.
Translations
Louise Fauve-Hovhannisyan, Le Révérend Père Komitas - moine et musicien armenien (1869-1935). Essai psychobiographique, Yerevan, "Komitas Museum-Institute" Publishing House, 2026
Claude Simon, The Separation, Yerevan, "Nairi" Publishing House, 2026
David Lescot, The European Woman, Yerevan, "Nairi" Publishing House, 2026