Education

PhD, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (Armenian Studies), University of California, Los Angeles, in progress
MA, Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia University (2014)
Thesis: Toward Social Reconstruction: Armenian Education in Constantinople during the Armistice Period
BA, Middle Eastern Studies and French Literature, Rutgers University (2011)
Thesis: Armenité refoulée : les premiers écrits de Zabel Yessayan (1895–1900)

Research

  • Ottoman Armenian social, cultural and intellectual history
  • Nineteenth-century Ottoman Armenian language practices and ideologies
  • Linguistic purism
  • Book history
  • Translation history

Publications

Articles

  • “Literary Translation and the Expansion of the Ottoman Armenian Reading Public, 1853-1884,” Book History 25, no. 1 (2022): 128-171.
  • “In Search of Linguistic Legitimacy: The New Speaker of Western Armenian” in Language and Globalization: An Autoethnographic Approach, ed. Maryam Borjian (New York: Routledge, 2017): 195-206.
  • “«Cinquante ans de littérature arménienne en France : du même à l’autre»՝ Բալասան մը դիւրին յոգնող թարգմանիչի մը համար,” Բագին, no. 1–2 (2016): 144–148.
  • Zareh Vorpouni, The Candidate: A Novel, trans. Jennifer Manoukian and Ishkhan Jinbashian (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2016).
  • Zabel Yessayan, The Gardens of Silihdar: A Memoir, trans. Jennifer Manoukian (Watertown, MA: AIWA Press, 2014).
  • “The Legacy of Turkish in the Armenian Diaspora,” Jadaliyya, 3 October 2014. (translated into French, Armenian, Turkish and Russian)
  • “Constantinople and Smyrna in the Diasporan Armenian and Greek Imaginaries—Part 1,” Jadaliyya, 26 May 2013.
  • “Exile and Memory in Contemporary Western Armenian Literature,” Jadaliyya, 16 August 2012.

Languages

  • Western Armenian (advanced)
  • French (advanced)
  • Spanish (intermediate)
  • Italian (intermediate)
  • Modern Turkish (intermediate)
  • Ottoman Turkish (elementary)