Dr. Karen Jallatyan

Scholarship holder
ORCID Culture and Imagination

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

Current Research Topic

The capital of the mediaeval Armenian Kingdom, Ani, has symbolised Armenian statehood over the centuries. A quintessentially »lost« city in the Armenian imagination and beyond, Ani has evolved from a real into an imagined place. The research project addresses the complexity of configurations generated by the »lost city« of Ani by exploring them from multiple perspectives and in an interdisciplinary manner:

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