Education
Higher education (1965 - 1970, Philological Faculty of Yerevan State University)

Academic degree
Candidate of Philology – “East Armenian Verse Metrics”, 1992, 17.03.1992 by the decision of the Council in the M. Abeghyan Institute of Literature of the NAS of RA

Professional experience
2006 – till now Associate professor at the Chair of Theory of Literature and Literary Criticism (YSU)
1993 - 2006 Associate professor at the Chair of Foreign Literature and Theory of Literature (YSU)
1977 - 1992 Senior lecturer at the Chair of Aesthetics and Theory of Literature (then at the Chair of Foreign Literature and Theory of Literature) (YSU)
1975 - 1977 Assistant at the Chair of Aesthetics and Theory of Literature (YSU)
1972 - 1974 Probationer-researcher at the Institute of World Literature (Yerevan - Moscow)
1970 - 1972 Assistant at the Study of literary communications (YSU)

Academic courses
For bachelors: An Introduction to Literary Criticism, The History of Russian Literary Criticism, The Armenian Verse
For masters: Theory of literature, Modern problems of Theory of Literature, Theory of Verse, The Art of Text Analysis, The Literary Criticism Conceptions of the 20-th Century

Scale of professional interests
Theory of literature, Theory of Verse, Poetics of Russian and Armenian Literature

Languages
Russian, Armenian, English