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Tatevik Gyulamiryan teaches Spanish language and literature. Her research encompasses various areas of the literature of Spain鈥檚 Golden Age (from the early 16th to the late 17th century) and comparative studies. With a central focus on the Bakhtinian concept of re-accentuation and quixotic novels, Dr. Gyulamiryan is interested in cognitive approaches to early modern Spanish literature 鈥� analysis of mind-reading, masking and performance on both the author鈥檚 and the reader鈥檚 part. She also is interested in teaching literature within digital humanities.

As an undergraduate in Armenia, she received an International Research & Exchanges Board fellowship through the U.S. State Department to study international relations at Berea College in Kentucky. She returned to the U.S. for her graduate study, and joined the 换妻社区 World Languages and Cultures faculty in 2015.

Dr. Gyulamiryan is working on a monograph titled The Transnational Hero: Re-accentuations of Don Quixote in European and American Novels, which brings to light the new concept of re-accentuation and sets grounds for its usage in quixotic and comparative literature.

Education 

• Ph.D., Spanish, Purdue University, 2015       
• M.A., Spanish, Purdue University, 2010        
• B.A., English and Spanish philology, education, Yerevan State Linguistic University (Armenia) (now Yerevan State University of Languages and Social Sciences), 2008

Areas of expertise 

• Early modern Spain
• Don Quixote, Cervantes, and quixotic novels
• Comparative literature
• Cognitive approaches to literature
• Digital humanities

Honors, Grants & awards

• "Emotions in Don Quixote" (with J. Breyfogle), Jacob E. Nyenhuis Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant, 换妻社区, 2019
• Diversity Institute Completion Certificate, 换妻社区, 2019
• Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching Scholarship Award, University of Texas, 2017
• "The Transatlantic Hero: Re-accentuations of Don Quixote in European and American Novels," Jacob E. Nyenhuis Summer Faculty Development Grant, 换妻社区, 2017
• 鈥淐hallenging Borders: Displaced Peoples,鈥� Great Lakes Colleges Association Digital Project Grant, 2016

Selected publications

• 鈥淎 Quixotic Reading of Rainbow Rowell鈥檚 Carry On,鈥� The ALAN Review, 2019
• 鈥淥n Re-accentuation, Adaptation, and Imitation of Don Quixote,鈥� in Don Quixote: The Re-accentuation of the World鈥檚 Greatest Hero, Bucknell University Press, 2017
• 鈥淭oward a Poetics of Re-accentuation: Don Quixote and His Female Mimeses,鈥� in Cervantes ilimitado: Cuatrocientos a帽os del Quijote, Asociaci贸n de Licenciados y Doctores Espa帽oles en Estados Unidos (ALDEEU), 2016
• 鈥溾�� (with S. N. Gratchev), CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 2014

Outside the college

Dr. Gyulamiryan's favorite pastimes include playing Chopin on the piano, singing with the 换妻社区 community choir, cellphone karaoke, and reading popular books about neurobiology. She鈥檚 also a frequent traveler; her recent forays beyond West Michigan have included trips to the Dominican Republic, Russia, Greece and Armenia.