Dr. Tatevik Gyulamiryan

Associate Professor of Spanish
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Tatevik Gyulamiryan teaches Spanish language and literature. Her research encompasses various areas of the literature of Spain亚洲色吧檚 Golden Age (from the early 16th to the late 17th century) and comparative studies. With a central focus on the Bakhtinian concept of re-accentuation and quixotic novels, Dr. Gyulamiryan is interested in cognitive approaches to early modern Spanish literature 亚洲色吧 analysis of mind-reading, masking and performance on both the author亚洲色吧檚 and the reader亚洲色吧檚 part. She also is interested in teaching literature within digital humanities.

As an undergraduate in Armenia, she received an International Research & Exchanges Board fellowship through the U.S. State Department to study international relations at Berea College in Kentucky. She returned to the U.S. for her graduate study, and joined the Hope College World Languages and Cultures faculty in 2015.

Dr. Gyulamiryan is working on a monograph titled The Transnational Hero: Re-accentuations of Don Quixote in European and American Novels, which brings to light the new concept of re-accentuation and sets grounds for its usage in quixotic and comparative literature.

Education 

  • Ph.D., Spanish, Purdue University, 2015       
  • M.A., Spanish, Purdue University, 2010        
  • B.A., English and Spanish philology, education, Yerevan State Linguistic University (Armenia) (now Yerevan State University of Languages and Social Sciences), 2008

Areas of expertise 

  • Early modern Spain
  • Don Quixote, Cervantes, and quixotic novels
  • Comparative literature
  • Cognitive approaches to literature
  • Digital humanities

Honors, Grants & awards

  • "Emotions in Don Quixote" (with J. Breyfogle), Jacob E. Nyenhuis Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant, Hope College, 2019
  • Diversity Institute Completion Certificate, Hope College, 2019
  • Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching Scholarship Award, University of Texas, 2017
  • "The Transatlantic Hero: Re-accentuations of Don Quixote in European and American Novels," Jacob E. Nyenhuis Summer Faculty Development Grant, Hope College, 2017
  • 亚洲色吧淐hallenging Borders: Displaced Peoples,亚洲色吧 Great Lakes Colleges Association Digital Project Grant, 2016

Selected publications

  • 亚洲色吧淎 Quixotic Reading of Rainbow Rowell亚洲色吧檚 Carry On,亚洲色吧 The ALAN Review, 2019
  • 亚洲色吧淥n Re-accentuation, Adaptation, and Imitation of Don Quixote,亚洲色吧 in Don Quixote: The Re-accentuation of the World亚洲色吧檚 Greatest Hero, Bucknell University Press, 2017
  • 亚洲色吧淭oward a Poetics of Re-accentuation: Don Quixote and His Female Mimeses,亚洲色吧 in Cervantes ilimitado: Cuatrocientos a帽os del Quijote, Asociaci贸n de Licenciados y Doctores Espa帽oles en Estados Unidos (ALDEEU), 2016
  • 亚洲色吧溠侵奚蓾 (with S. N. Gratchev), CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 2014

Outside the college

Dr. Gyulamiryan's favorite pastimes include playing Chopin on the piano, singing with the Hope College community choir, cellphone karaoke, and reading popular books about neurobiology. She亚洲色吧檚 also a frequent traveler; her recent forays beyond West Michigan have included trips to the Dominican Republic, Russia, Greece and Armenia. 

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Dr. Tatevik Gyulamiryan

Phone Number616.395.7557

Martha Miller Center 223 257 Columbia Avenue Holland, MI 49423
Martha Miller Center 223 257 Columbia Avenue Holland MI 49423