Media Archive
This archive compiles a comprehensive chronological history of news articles, press features, and profiles documenting Tamar Marie Boyadjian's creative and scholarly impact.
TV Interviews & Podcasts
A curated collection of television interviews, podcasts, and broadcast dialogues exploring medieval literature, the craft of writing, and the weight of being a diasporan poet creating within an endangered language.
JULY 2024
boon tv
Diaspora: Critical Reflections | Western Armenian and Eastern Armenian Today
Tamar Marie Boyadjian discusses why it matters to speak, write, and create in Western Armenian and the challenges that shape the life of the diaspora.
alpha news
An Evening of Contemporary Armenian Poetry in Glendale | Արդի հայ պոեզիայի երեկո՝ Գլենդելում
APRIL 2025
the east is a podcast
The Persistence of the Armenian Question w/
Tamar Boyadjian and Rachel Goshgarian
A podcast conversation hosted by Sina Abrahami, bringing together Rachel Goshgarian and Tamar Marie Boyadjian to unpack the complex intersections of identity, modern politics, and the US recognition of the Armenian Genocide. The conversation explores how historical justice and political recognition shape contemporary diasporan identity.
APRIL 2025
all things armenian
A Conversartion with Tamar Boyadjian
A featured conversation with Barlow Der Mugrdechian at Fresno State, exploring the landscape of Armenian Studies, the depth of medieval Armenian literature, alongside a reflection on the formative experience of learning Armenian and growing up in Southern California.
SEPTEMBER 2020
Talks & Readings
This section features a curated archive of keynotes, academic lectures, poetry readings, and panel discussions. It includes recorded presentations, university features, and public dialogues broadcast across YouTube and various digital media platforms.
FEBRUARY 2025
write more light
Medievalism Today with authors Tamar Boyadjian and Misty Urban
A featured appearance on the 2025 premiere of #WriteMoreLight, joining author-scholar Misty Urban in conversation to dismantle the complexities of medievalism. The episode explores the definitions of medievalism, its profound influence on contemporary culture, and why the field remains vital today—drawing on foundational texts and figures including Beowulf, Chaucer, King Arthur, and Melusine.
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Literature and Endangered Languages with Tamar M. Boyadjian
In this interview, Tamar Marie Boyadjian discusses the creative necessity of decolonizing the Western Armenian language through artistic play and experimental poetry. By reclaiming the legacies of forgotten historical women writers, she explores how creative writing and translation serve as essential acts of nurturing and linguistic survival.
SEPTEMBER 2023
ZORA!
Afrofuturism Conference 2022 | Day 1 – Afternoon Session, Part 2: Tamar Boyadjian
FEBRUARY 2022
An invited broadcast appearance at the 2022 Zora! Afrofuturism Conference. This dialogue addresses the intersections of historical memory, the political stakes of writing in the endangered Western Armenian language, and the role of matriarchal lineages in creative survival. The feature includes a performance of original concrete poetry and sound-deconstruction experiments rooted in medieval textuality.
ZORA!
Afrofuturism Conference 2022 | Day 1 – Afternoon Session, Part 3: Roundtable Discussion
FEBRUARY 2022
In this 2022 roundtable for the UCF Department of History, Tamar Boyadjian advocates for a decolonized approach to pedagogy by integrating overlooked "minor literatures" into undergraduate classrooms. By analyzing historical events—like the 1099 capture of Jerusalem—through Arabic, Armenian, and Western European sources simultaneously, she demonstrates how a multiplicity of perspectives challenges rigid, Eurocentric chronologies. Ultimately, she emphasizes critically questioning institutional gatekeeping within archives to transform them into nuanced spaces for self-reflection, intercultural connectivity, and healing.
Armenian Studies Program, Fresno State
The City Lament: Jerusalem Across the Medieval Mediterranean
SEPTEMBER 2020
In this lecture, Tamar Boyadjian discusses the cross-cultural tradition of the city lament, focusing on how medieval Mediterranean cultures textually processed the loss of Jerusalem. Moving beyond standard Crusades narratives, she explores how Arabic-Islamic, Cilician-Armenian, and Latin-Western traditions relied on ancient tropes to rebuild surrogate geographies of the sacred city.
museum of contemporary art detroit
Re-reading the Crusades: Armenian Sources
MARCH 2018
This literary event at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) features cross-cultural and bilingual readings from diverse Michigan-based and international authors, including Zilka Joseph, Etgar Keret, and Tamar Marie Boyadjian. The readings explore themes of translation, endangered cultural identities, and the power of storytelling to bridge individual memory with historical trauma.
abril books
Թամար Պոյաճեանի «ինչ որ է ան է» գրքի շնորհանդէս | Tamar Boyadjian's "it is what it is" Book event
OCTOBER 2015
This is the launch event for it is what it is | ինչ որ է ան է, a milestone release marking the very first volume of concrete poetry published by a US-born author in Western Armenian. The presentation strips away traditional literary pretenses, delivering a raw, anatomy-like breakdown of the text to show exactly how its minimalist repetitions and visual experimentation radically re-engineer the language.
university of michigan, center for armenian studies
Re-reading the Crusades: Armenian Sources
DECEMBER 2012
In this lecture, Tamar Boyadjian advocates for a shift in Crusades scholarship by reading overlooked Armenian and Eastern sources alongside Western narratives. By exploring texts like Catholicos Grigor’s lament over Jerusalem within a collaborative "medieval Mediterranean" framework, she demonstrates how these works challenge eurocentric viewpoints and reveal deep intercultural connectivity.
In the News
A complete archive of news articles, press features, and spotlights showcasing Tamar Marie Boyadjian's ongoing impact on the global literary and academic landscape.
armenian weekly
From Bookbinding to Embroidery: ARS Tsiran Explores Armenian Crafts
MAY 2026
A press feature covering the ARS Tsiran Chapter event in New York City, highlighting a collaborative program where Tamar Marie Boyadjian lectured on the history of Cilician Armenian manuscripts alongside an interactive Marash embroidery workshop led by artist Mariam Karapetyan.
agos
Reflecting upon Wasafiri's 'Armenia(n)s: Elevation'
APRIL 2025
This Agos highlights Tamar Marie Boyadjian’s contribution to Wasafiri’s special issue “Armenia(n)s: Elevation,” focusing on her dialogue “Two Armenians Conversing in Two Armenians” and her distinctive approach to Western Armenian, diaspora, and intergenerational memory.
armenian weekly
Zabel Yesayan’s “The Agony of a People: Haig Toroyan’s Eyewitness Account of the Armenian Genocide” published
MARCH 2025
A major press feature announcing the publication of Zabel Yesayan’s The Agony of a People by I.B. Tauris (Bloomsbury), highlighting Tamar Marie Boyadjian's leadership as co-editor of translation with Maral Aktokmakyan and translator of Marc Nichanian's afterword for this landmark volume.
haigazian university
Haigazian University published the second book of Haigazian Armenological Review for the year 2025, namely book 45/2
FEBRUARY 2025
A prominent collaborative feature in the Haigazian Armenological Review (Volume 45/2) presenting an in-depth roundtable interview on the modern trajectory of Contemporary Armenian Diaspora Literature.
agos
Western Armenian Writers: The 12 Pages of a Newly Printed Calendar | Արեւմտահայ Գրագէտներ նորատիպ օրացոյցի մը 12 էջերը
DECEMBER 2023
This article presents the 2024 “Western Armenian Women Writers” wall calendar and highlights Tamar Marie Boyadjian, along with Maral Aktokmakyan and Arpi Krikorian, as one of the three creators. It also feature's her as an author, underscoring her role in centering Western Armenian, women’s writing, and Armenian literary memory across generations.
international armenian literary alliance
JUNE 2022
Introducing the Mentors of the 2022 IALA Mentorship Program
This IALA feature introduces Tamar M. Boyadjian as one of four author‑mentors in the 2022 mentorship program, highlighting her as a California‑born Western Armenian poet, translator, and scholar whose experimental, language‑focused work guides emerging Armenian writers.
The ARMENIAN MIRROR-SPECTATOR
AUGUST 2022
New JSAS Volume Explores Theme of Women in Performing Arts
This article introduces a new Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies volume on women in the performing arts and features Tamar Marie Boyadjian and Rachel Goshgarian’s editorial work, recognizing their role in shaping contemporary conversations around Armenian culture and performance.
the society for armenian studies
JANUARY 2021
The Society for Armenian Studies Holds its 46th Annual Membership Meeting and Presents a Three-Year Strategic Plan
A news feature on the Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) annual meeting, highlighting the announcement of Tamar Marie Boyadjian as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies (JSAS) under its prestigious new publication partnership with Brill.
journal of the society for armenian studies
FEBRUARY 2021
The City Lament: Jerusalem across the Medieval Mediterranean, written by Boyadjian, Tamar
A comprehensive review analyzing how The City Lament utilizes a Mediterranean spatial paradigm to move beyond European realities, exploring the rhetoric of lament as a political and cross-cultural tool across Arabic, Armenian, and Latin literary traditions.
comparative literature studies
MARCH 2021
The City Lament: Jerusalem Across the Medieval Mediterranean by Tamar M. Boyadjian (review)
A scholarly review by Eduardo Ramos in Comparative Literature Studies praising The City Lament as an important contribution that challenges traditional Crusader frameworks by demonstrating how medieval cross-cultural contact and shared networks shaped city laments over Jerusalem.
granish
JULY 2021
Concrete Poetry and Tamar Boyadjian’s Book
it is what it is |Կոնկրետ պոեզիան և Թամար Պոյաճեանի «ինչ որ է ան է» գիրքը
A comprehensive critical analysis published on the literary platform Granish, exploring how Tamar Marie Boyadjian's it is what it is establishes a new framework for concrete and conceptual poetry within modern Armenian literature.
armenian weekly
DECEMBER 2021
The Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies Releases Volume 28.2 on the Theme of Performance
This piece announces a special Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies volume on Armenian women in theater, cinema, and music, co-edited by Editor-in-Chief Tamar Marie Boyadjian and Reviews and Reconsiderations Editor, Rachel Goshgarian. It highlights how the volume rethinks performance, memory, identity, and especially the female body are studied in Armenian cultural history.
society for Armenian studies
MARCH 2020
Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies (JSAS) Releases its First Volume through Brill (Volume 27.1) with its new Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Tamar M. Boyadjian
An official announcement detailing the inaugural Brill issue of the Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies, showcasing Editor-in-Chief Tamar Marie Boyadjian's leadership in debuting a diverse array of cross-cultural and interdisciplinary scholarship.
HYE SHARZHOOM
Tamar Boyadjian: "Lamenting Jerusalem in Crusading Narrative: A Wasteland Translated"
This article profiles Tamar Marie Boyadjian’s work as a medievalist and author of the award‑winning book The City of Lament, highlighting her lecture on ancient and medieval city lamentations and her own Western Armenian poetry as part of a wider conversation on grief, ritual, and women’s voices across cultures.
SEPTEMBER 2020
MASSIS POST
Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies Releases its First Volume through Brill
This announcement presents Volume 27, Issue 1 of the Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies, edited by Tamar Marie Boyadjian, and outlines its articles and reviews on Armenian religion, history, literature, and memory—positioning her editorial work at the center of a growing, global conversation in Armenian Studies.
DECEMBER 2020
THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW
AUGUST 2019
Review | The City Lament: Jerusalem Across the Medieval Mediterranean
This review praises The City Lament: Jerusalem across the Medieval Mediterranean for its ambitious use of Latin, Arabic, and Armenian sources to explore twelfth-century laments for the loss of Jerusalem. Highlighting the book’s focus on shared biblical roots and cross-cultural exchange, the reviewer especially values Tamar M. Boyadjian’s introduction of understudied Armenian and Arabic poetry, and notes that her analysis of Grigor Tlay’s 1189 lament is a particularly important contribution that opens new paths for future work on Armenian Cilicia.
fresno state news
SEPTEMBER 2020
Virtual Lecture Examines Lament over the Loss of Jerusalem in the Medieval Mediterranean
This feature highlights Dr. Tamar Marie Boyadjian’s virtual lecture “The City Lament: Jerusalem Across the Medieval Mediterranean,” hosted by Fresno State. The talk explores how Arabo‑Islamic, Cilician Armenian, and Western European traditions lament the loss of Jerusalem, revealing shared ancient models and cross‑cultural exchanges that shape political and spiritual visions of the city.
national association for armenian studies and research
NAASR Announces Winners of Sona Aronian Armenian Studies Book Prizes
his piece highlights the announcement of the 2019 NAASR Aronian Book Prize awarded to Tamar Marie Boyadjian for her groundbreaking comparative study in The City Lament: Jerusalem Across the Medieval Mediterranean.
MARCH 2019
translation @ michigan
May 2017
TRANSLATION ACROSS CAMPUS | Reading from “Unscripted: An Armenian Palimpsest”– The One Where It All Comes Together
A featured profile covering the release of Absinthe: World Literature in Translation, highlighting Tamar Marie Boyadjian's role as guest editor and contributor for the landmark diaspora issue, Unscripted: An Armenian Palimpsest.
Pakin
Tamar Boyadjian's Book, it is what it | Թամար Պօյաճեանի Ինչ Որ Է Ան Է Գիրքը
Critic Tagouhi Ghazarian reviews it is what it is, analyzing how Tamar Marie Boyadjian introduces a completely new tradition of concrete and conceptual poetry to contemporary literature to push the structural boundaries and survival of the Western Armenian language.
APRIL 2017
LSA Middle east studies
MARCH 2017
Tamar Boyadjian | "Lamenting Jerusalem in Crusading Narrative: A Wasteland Translated"
A public lecture exploring the inception of the city lament genre, illustrating how the contested medieval history of Jerusalem resurfaces through recursive literary forms across diverse Western and Near Eastern ethno-religious cultures.