Helen Makhdoumian

Department of English

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

“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 (advance article version).
“Connected Memoryscapes of Silence in Micheline Aharonian Marcom’s Draining the Sea.” Memory, Migration, and Modern Fiction, special issue of Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 66, no. 2, 2020, pp. 301-324.
“Towards a Postmemory and Multidirectional Memory Nexus: Traumatic Memories, Exile, and Home in Patricia Sarrafian Ward’s The Bullet Collection.” Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies, vol. 26, 2017, pp. 62-81.
“Rewriting Billie and Asserting Rhetorical Sovereignty in Linda Hogan’s Power.” Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 28, no. 4, 2016, pp. 80-110.

“Exemplum: Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin (2010).” American Fiction Since 1940, edited by Cyrus R.K. Patell and Deborah Lindsay Williams, The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Vol. 8., Oxford UP (forthcoming, February 2024).