TALAR CHAHINIAN, Stateless: The Politics of the Armenian Language in Exile (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2023)

Author Biography

• Helen Makhdoumian, Vanderbilt University

  Helen Makhdoumian is a postdoctoral fellow in the Collaborative Humanities at Vanderbilt University, where she is also affiliated with the Department of English. Previously, she has held positions as a Promise Armenian Institute Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles and as an Alex and Marie Manoogian Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She earned her PhD in English from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is a literary studies scholar who takes up a relational approach to theorize the legacies of collective violence in the Middle East and in North America. Her articles on literary representations of the memory of migration have appeared or are forthcoming in such venues as Modern Fiction Studies, the Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies, and The Oxford History of the Novel in English, vol. 8.