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WRITING ARCHIVE

Poetry 

Sao Paolo • tabla

Uma ilha chamada Armênia

Photographer: Cassiana Der Haroutiounian | March 2026

 yerevan • antares

it is what it is | ինչ որ է ան է

Concrete Poetry Collection | March 2015

detroit  • three fold press  

excerpt | a drop of woman unnamed unwritten

Editor: Rebecca Mazzei | October 2024

hamburg • Zendeh Rud: Diwan für Kunst und Literatur  I 

I, Mirror | Ես ՝ հայելի

Editors: Ufuk Ocak, Albert Mäkitalo  | December 2022

sao Paulo • Entretempos

Dança da terra, dança dos mártires | անվերնագիր պար 

Editor: Cassiana Der Haroutiounian | February 2021

yerevan • inknagir

It is what it is and other works… | ինչ որ է ան է եւ որիշ գործէր…

Editor: Violet Grigoryan & Vahan Ishkhanyan  | April 2015

 texas & Berlin • Keith Press LLC 

Selected Poetry & Drawings 

Anthology | January 2021

 detroit • mycelium 

LAMENT [I] | ՈՂԲ[ԱՄ] ՝

Issue 1 | 2019-2020

 detroit • infinite mile

City Gaze

Literary Journal | July 2016

 detroit • infinite mile

Silent Word-City

Literary Journal | January 2016

 yerevan • inknagir 

quiet mirror | լուր հայելի

Literary Journal | August 2015

 yerevan • granish

And where... | Եւ Ուր…

Literary Journal | March 2015

 yerevan • antares

it is what it is | ինչ որ է ան է

Concrete Poetry Collection | March 2015

new york • armenian poetry project

Tz...was born | Ծ… Ծնաւ

Literary Journal | March 2015

 Los angeles  • moutk

Selected Poetry

Editor: Anahit Keshishian | 2000-2001

 Los angeles  • Unanogh

Selected Poetry

Editor: Anahit Keshishian | 2000

 Los angeles  • VOICES: A meeting place

Selected Poetry

Contributor & Curator | 2000

 Los angeles  • Hntzan

Selected Poetry

Journal of Art & Culture | 1998

 new York  • anthology of poetry by young americans 

Gluttony

Anthology | 1998

Books, Articles & Chapters

A selection of books, articles, and chapters that trace my work across medieval studies, Armenian lirerature, and the afterlives of cities, memory, and displacement.

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CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS (2018)

The City Lament: Jerusalem Across the Medieval Mediterranean

Awarded for its groundbreaking comparative approach, this monograph traces the city lament across five linguistic traditions during the Crusades to demonstrate how shared elegies for Jerusalem reveal rich cross-cultural exchanges across the medieval Mediterranean.

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FORTHCOMING

those who narrate the story of the woods | The Manuscript Robyn Hode

This study investigates the Robin Hood legend through its earliest manuscript contexts, exploring how the untamed space of the greenwood, along with Robin and his Merry Fellows, served to critique and subvert the dominant political and legal structures of medieval England.

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2026)

Imagining Difference: Race and Identity in the Middle Ages

Co-authored with Nahir Otaño Gracia, this article in the Cambridge New History of the Medieval World critically examines how race and identity are constructed in Arthurian and Crusading literature, and reflects on what these narratives reveal about the concept of race in the premodern world. 

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BREPOLS (2020)

The Papacy, the Kings’ Crusade, and the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia

Winner of The Mediterranean Seminar Prize for the Best Essay Collection (2022) | This article investigates the triangular relationship between Western papal authority, the Kings' Crusade, and the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia within the broader medieval Mediterranean landscape.

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PALGRAVE MACMILLAN (2018)

Mapping Jerusalem: Re-Reading the City in the Context of the Medieval Mediterranean

This article re-reads the historical and spatial mapping of medieval Jerusalem by examining its deep cultural and political intersections with the Kingdom of Armenian Cilicia within the wider Mediterranean network.

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PEETERS (2018)

Crusader Antioch: The Sister-City in the Armenian Laments of Nersēs Šnorhali and Grigor Tłay

Focusing on the laments of Nersēs Šnorhali and Grigor Tłay, this article investigates the historical and literary ties connecting Armenian Cilicia to  Crusader Antioch.

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CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARS PUBLISHING (2011)

An Armenian Princess | Mongol, and a Conversion Tale: the King of Tars

This article explores the textual transmission of The King of Tars, focusing on how the role of the Armenian princess is constructed and altered across different versions. 

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BRILL (2010)

Medieval Armenian  Chroniclers 

Encyclopedia entries for: Grigor of Akanc; Samuel Aneci; Mxitar Aneci; Kirakos Ganjakeci; Vardan Arewelci; and Stepanos Orbelean

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MAZDA PUBLISHERS (2004)

Varoujan | Son of Sepastia 

Co-authored with Rita Vorperian, this  article exploring the place of Sepastia in the poetry of the great Taniel Varoujan, a victim of the Armenia Genocide. 

Reviews & Articles

Reviews and newspaper articles that engage with language, literature, film, history, and culture.

December 19, 2025

journal article

wasifiri

Two Armenians Conversing in Two Armenians: Tamar Marie Boyadjian and Hratch Martirosyan 

January 8, 2025

exhibit review

hyperallergic

Levon Kafafian’s Cocoon From the Future

may 27, 2025

filmmaker feature

asbarez 

Beyond the Markers of Silence: Suzanne Khardalian’s Filmmaking as the Chronicler of Women’s Stories 

December 29, 2024

exhibit review

hyperallergic

Making Food Into an Art in Muslim-Majority Cultures

December 19, 2024

book review

hyperallergic

Why Don’t We Talk About Race in Fairy Tales

December 18, 2024

book review

hyperallergic

An Incomplete History of Griffins in Art

September 27, 2023

exhibit review

hyperallergic

On Labor and Race in Great Depression America

June 19, 2024

newspaper article

armenian weekly

What Does it Mean to Write Fantasy in Western Armenian?

May 7, 2024

newspaper article

Armenian weekly

The Danger of the “En-danger-ed”: The Hope for a Western Armenian Imaginary

June 5, 2023

art review

hyperallergic

What Would a World Without Genocide Look Like?

March 29, 2023

art review

hyperallergic

What’s Iconoclastic About a Blackface Madonna?

September 2, 2021

film review

hyperallergic

The Missed Queerness of The Green Knight Adaptation

March 29, 2013

newspaper article

asbarez

Lamenting Jerusalem: The Armenian Quarter In The Old City

June 18, 2012

newspaper article

asbarez

Preserving Armenian History and Culture: Moving into the Digital Age

February 25, 2011

newspaper article

asbarez

The Future of the Past: Toward the Preservation of Armenian Manuscripts

October 28, 2011

book review

asbarez

Voghb ev Garod, Lament and Longing: Lory Bedikian’s The Book of Mourning

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