Lisa Gulesserian, Ph. D.

Gulesserian is Lecturer on Armenian at Harvard, where she teaches Armenian Culture courses and Elementary and Intermediate Western Armenian. At Harvard and elsewhere, she has taught courses on traumatic pasts, female revolutionaries, and contemporary Armenian film and literature. She earned her PhD in English from the University of Texas at Austin with her dissertation about passionate remembering in Micheline Aharonian Marcom’s Armenian Genocide Trilogy. Her current projects include a book-length monograph on Marcom’s novels, developing new multimodal materials to teach Western Armenian, as well as collaborating with the Armenian International Women’s Association (AIWA) to produce a literary translation from Armenian of Srpouhi Dussap’s nineteenth-century feminist novel, Mayda.