Education
1992: Advanced Training Course at the Department of English Linguistics, Moscow State University.
1991: Doctoral Thesis on “ The Interaction of Speaking and Singing Voices in the Articulation of English Speech)”, (accomplished and recommended to defence) at the Department of English Linguistics, Moscow State University.
1989 - 1991: Doctoral Course at the Department of English Linguistics, Moscow State University.
1988: Associate Professor, Moscow.
1987: Advanced Training Course at the University of Surrey (Guilford, Great Britain).
1984, 1980: Advanced Training Course at the Department of English Linguistics, Moscow State University.
1976: Candidate Thesis on “Resonant Sounds in Final Consonant Clusters in Speech and Singing as Compared with Russian and Armenian”, Diploma of Candidate of Philology, Moscow State University.
1972 - 1976: Post-Graduate Course at the English Department of Moscow State University.
1971: Advanced Training Course at the English Department of Moscow State University.
1961 - 1966: Yerevan State University, Faculty of Philology, Department of Romance and Germanic Philology.

Professional experience
1988 - up to now: Associate-Professor, Department of English Philology, Faculty of Romance and Germanic Philology, YSU.
1966 - 1972: Lecturer of English, Department of Romance and Germanic Philology, Faculty of Philology, Yerevan State University.

Other professional activities
2007: Organizer of the International Conference “ Homage to Edward Atayan”, October 1-3, 2007 Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Svetlana Vardanian (Assistant of the Conference Chairperson).
2002 - Organizer of the 1st International Conference on Romance and Germanic Philology and Methodology of Foreign Languages Yerevan, October 31- November 2, 2002, Yerevan State University, Svetlana Vardanian (Assistant of the Conference Chairperson).
1977 - 2000: Organizer of the Students’ Theatre in English. Staged performances:
1. “The Importance of Being Earnest” by O. Wilde 1st act, 1977.
2. “ With the Photographer” by Stephen Leacock, 1995,
3. “ Thursday Evening” by Christopher Morley, 1998
4. “ Heaven and Earth” by G. G. Byron, 2000

Research experience
1976 - up to now: Guidance and supervisor of BA, MA, Ph. D Researches

Academic courses
Theoretical English Phonetics/ Phonology, Practical English Phonetics, Rhetoric, Teaching English (Lexis, Grammar, Writing, Press, Analitical Reading).

Scale of professional interests
English Phonetics/ Phonology, English Philology, General Linguistics, Rhetoric, Stage Speech, Language and Music, Speech and Singing, Poetry Translation.

Participation in International Conferences and Seminars
RA, Russian Federation, Great Britain

Professional Membership
2001 - up to now: Member of the Editorial Staff of FLSP International Journal of YSU.
1997 - 2005: Chairperson of the Methodological Council of Romance and Germanic Philology Faculty of YSU
1995 - 2009: Member of the Academic Council of Romance and Germanic Philology Faculty of YSU.

Languages
Armenian, English and Russian (fluent), German (conversational).