Education
1982 – 1987 Yerevan State University, Faculty of Philology, Romance-Germanic Department (French Language and Literature), Diploma
1987 – 1991post-graduate student, Yerevan State University
1988 – 1989 post-graduate student,Lomonosov Moscow State University, the department of Spanish and Portuguese (head of the chair: V.S. Vinogradov)
2001– retraining in Madrid Self-Governing University
2004 –retraining in Madrid Self-Governing University

Academic degree
1996 – “Ethno-cultural Component as a Translation Problem (on French and Armenian translations of the novel “Don Quixote” by Cervantes)”, Diploma (Doctor of Philology)
2004 – Associate Professor (Linguistics), Diploma

Professional experience
2011 – Head of the Department of Romance Philology, Yerevan State University, Faculty of Romance-Germanic Philology
2002 – 2009 Head of the Spanish Department (Departmentof Romance Philology), Yerevan State University, Faculty of Romance-Germanic Philology
2000 – Associate Professor, Department of Romance Philology, Yerevan State University
1991 –Lecturer of Spanish, Department of Romance Philology, Yerevan State University, Faculty of Romance-Germanic Philology

Public Activity
2000– Chairperson of "The Spanish Language" Subject Committee, National Institute of Education

Academic courses
Lexicology, Stylistics, Translation Studies

Scale of professional interests
Modern problems of Translation Studies; Translation as form ofinterlingualand intercultural communication

Languages
Armenian, Spanish, French, Russian, Italian