WRITING ARCHIVE
Poetry
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 29, 2024
exhibit review
hyperallergic
Making Food Into an Art in Muslim-Majority Cultures
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