About
Karen Jallatyan was born in Gyumri, Armenia, and grew up in Los Angeles. In 2019, he completed a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. Since 2019 he has held several postdoctoral fellowships, e.g. from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Alex and Marie Manoogian Foundation. Thanks to a trilateral agreement between the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Pázmány Péter Catholic University and the GWZO, Dr. Jallatyan taught in Budapest from 2020 to 2022 and completed a summer research scholarship at the GWZO in 2021.
Karen Jallatyan has been a Gerda Henkel Foundation postdoctoral scholar in the department »Culture and Imagination« at the GWZO since January 2023
Work Focus
-
Armenian diasporic cultural production from the 20th century to the present
-
Multicultural and translational frameworks of analysis