Education
1970 -1974: Postgraduate Studies Chair of English Philology Yerevan State University
1959 -1964: Student of Faculty of Romance - Germanic Philology Yerevan State University
1949 - 1959: N2 Secondary School, Yerevan
1979: Teachers’ updating courses
1986: Teachers’ updating courses
2007: Teachers’ updating courses

Academic Degree
June 2000: Doctor of Philology (awarded by Supreme Certifying Commission, RA)
Dissertation: “Translation as a Means of Interpreting and Armenianizing Shakespeare”

Work Experience
September 2009 - present Associate Professor, Ph.D. Chair of Translation Theory and Practice Yerevan State University
2000 - 2009: Associate Professor, Ph.D. Chair of English Philology Yerevan State University
1963 - 2000: Senior Lecturer Chair of English Philology, Yerevan State University

Professional Membership
September 2004 - present: Member of the Armenian Association for the Study of English (AASE), European Federation

Academic Courses
English Major, Fiction Translation, Analytical Reading, Comparative Grammar

Professional Interests
Theoretical and Practical Problems of Translation, Translation of Fiction, Stylistics, Foreign Literature

Participation in International Conferences and Seminars
Shakespeare Through Time & Space
11 - 17 May, 1998: Yerevan State University, The ASSE -1 International Conference “English Studies; Theory & Practice”
27- 30 October, 2004: Yerevan State University.PEN club, Yerevan, Poetry translation problems

Languages
Armenian (native), English (fluent), Russian (fluent), German (intermediate)