Sona Mnatsakanyan
Berlin
Summary
2020 – 2024 PhD in Literary Studies Department of Slavic and Hungarian Studies Humboldt University, Berlin
2003 – 2009 BA and MA in Armenian Philology (Diplomas with Honors)Department of Armenian Philology, Yerevan State University
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Coteaching Seminar "Imagining and Constructing Modernities: Urban Narratives Iin Early Soviet Literature and Film
Department of Slavic and Hungarian Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin
2023.10 - 2024.02
Research Fellow
Academic Swiss Caucasus Net, University of Fribourg
2012.02 - 2012.04
- Research in Diaspora Studies
Research Assistant
Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies, FU Berlin
2020.01 - 2024.03
- Working on the project (Post-)Soviet Cosmopolis, mainly contributing with translations and analysis of Soviet Armenian literary texts.
Instructor for the class "Armenian Language and Literature"
College of Humanities and Social Sciences, American University of Armenia
2016.01 - 2021.01
- Developing the curriculum of Armenian literature for the period of the 19th century to present, class presentations of authors' work to the audience, facilitating discussions and infusing critical and creative thinking, preparing tests, and evaluating students' knowledge and analytical skills.
Developer and Evaluator of Armenian Literature Test Questions
Araratian Baccalaureate Public School Program, Ayb Foundation, Yerevan
2017.01 - 2019.01
- Developing Cambridge-based system test questions for students entering Exams, reviewing evaluating, and grading the answers.
Teacher of Armenian as a Foreign Language
ASPIRANTUM NGO, Yerevan
2015.01 - 2019.01
- Designing the Armenian language curriculum for intermediate and advanced levels and teaching the course in groups and individually.
Work on the book Խոսե՛ք, Նամակներ [Speak up, Letters!]
2017.01 - 2018.01
- Compiling and preparing for publication of the letters of an Armenian intellectual Gurgen Edilyan, with references, bibliography, and introduction
Teacher of Armenian as a Foreign Language
Lifelong Education Center, Kadir Has University, Istanbul
2014.01 - 2015.01
- Designing Armenian language curriculum for the beginner's level and teaching in groups.
Project Coordinator
Zangak Publishing House
2013.01 - 2014.01
- Organizing reading promotion events, especially focusing on children's literature.
Skills
- Designing and teaching courses in literary studies
- Editing and translating
- Historical Research
- Information Analysis
- Analytical Skills
- Report Preparation
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 10/15/86
Country of Origin: Armenia
Articles
- 2017, Depiction of the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara in Turkish and Constantinople-Armenian Fiction, "Negotiation of Difference in the Shared Urban Space" collection of Essays, Yerevan
- 2015, Zahrad'ın dünya görüşü, Notos journal, N 55, Istanbul
Latest Conferences
- 10/18/23 - 10/20/23, Urban Narratives: Reconstructing and Re-branding European Cities from the 20th Century Until the Present Day, Marburg, Creating the image of (Post-)Soviet Yerevan: Literature in Action
- 10/5/23 - 10/7/23, Hydro~Poetics: an Ecocritical Perspective on Eastern-European Arts (1960s-1990s), Berlin, Is the ship on the mountain or in the waters of Sevan? Kostan Zarian's novel "The Ship on the Mountain" in the context of the Arpa-Sevan tunnel construction
- 9/14/23 - 9/15/23, Relicts of the Ancien Régime - Socialist & Imperial Legacies & the City, Berlin, From Soviet Censorship to Post-Soviet Activism: A Critical Analysis of Mkrtich Armen's Novel "Yerevan"
- 6/13/23 - 6/15/23, Soviet Experience and Heritage in Armenia - 2, Yerevan, A Challenge to the aesthetics of socialist realism: depiction of non-human agents in Mkrtich Armen's novel "Yerevan"
Languages
Armenian
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
English
Advanced (C1)
Russian
Advanced (C1)
German
Intermediate (B1)
Turkish
Elementary (A2)
Timeline
Coteaching Seminar "Imagining and Constructing Modernities: Urban Narratives Iin Early Soviet Literature and Film
Department of Slavic and Hungarian Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin
2023.10 - 2024.02
Research Assistant
Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies, FU Berlin
2020.01 - 2024.03
Developer and Evaluator of Armenian Literature Test Questions
Araratian Baccalaureate Public School Program, Ayb Foundation, Yerevan
2017.01 - 2019.01
Work on the book Խոսե՛ք, Նամակներ [Speak up, Letters!]
2017.01 - 2018.01
Instructor for the class "Armenian Language and Literature"
College of Humanities and Social Sciences, American University of Armenia
2016.01 - 2021.01
Teacher of Armenian as a Foreign Language
ASPIRANTUM NGO, Yerevan
2015.01 - 2019.01
Teacher of Armenian as a Foreign Language
Lifelong Education Center, Kadir Has University, Istanbul
2014.01 - 2015.01
Project Coordinator
Zangak Publishing House
2013.01 - 2014.01
Research Fellow
Academic Swiss Caucasus Net, University of Fribourg
2012.02 - 2012.04
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