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
- “Armenian Studies in Conversation with Critical Indigenous Studies and Settler Colonial Studies: An Invitation,” Indigeneity, special issue of Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies, 2023
- “Connected Memoryscapes of Silence in Micheline Aharonian Marcom’s Draining the Sea,” Modern Fiction Studies, 2020
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