Talar Chahinian holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UCLA and lectures in the Program for Armenian Studies at UC Irvine, where she is also Visiting Faculty in the Department of Comparative Literature. Her research and teaching interests include Armenian language and literary history, world literature, theories of trauma, transnationalism, and translation, and digital humanities. She is the author of the award-winning book, Stateless: The Politics of the Armenian Language in Exile (Syracuse University Press, 2023) and co-editor, along with Tsolin Nalbantian and Sossie Kasbarian, of The Armenian Diaspora and Stateless Power: Collective Identity in the Transnational 20th Century (Bloomsbury Press, 2023). She serves as an executive committee member of the Society of Armenian Studies and as editorial board member of both the Journal for the Society of Armenian Studies and Études Arméniennes