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Helen Makhdoumian

Department of English

helen.makhdoumian@vanderbilt.edu

Education

  • 2021 PhD, English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • 2016 MA, English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • 2014 BA, English, Westminster College

professional APPOINTMENTS

  • 2023–2026 Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University
  • 2022-2023 Promise Armenian Institute Postdoctoral Scholar, UCLA
  • 2021-2022 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow in Armenian Studies, University of Michigan

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Articles

Book Chapters

  • “Exemplum: Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin (2010) in American Fiction since 1940, edited by Cyrus R.K. Patell and Deborah Lindsay Williams, The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Oxford University Press, 2024

Teaching

Vanderbilt University

  • Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis: Topic: Curses, Fortunes, and Destinies (Anglophone Literature Emphasis)
  • Movements in Literature: Contemporary Native American Literature
  • First-Year Writing Seminar: The Repair Work of Righting and Writing

University of Michigan

  • Armenian Relationality: Diasporas Old, New, and in the Making

University of Illinois

  • Introduction to Poetry: Memories, Witnesses, and Diasporas
  • Nineteenth-Century American Fiction: Transnational and Hemispheric Connections
  • Romantic Literature and Culture: (Inter)national Contact Zones
  • Introduction to Fiction: Migration and Home
  • Introduction to Fiction: Hauntings of Empires
  • Writing and Research

 

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