Lisa Gulesserian, PhD

Dr. Lisa Gulesserian has taught courses on Armenian language, memory, traumatic pasts, ghosts, female revolutionaries, and contemporary Armenian film and literature at the University of Texas at Austin and at Harvard University, where in 2025 she was awarded the Harvard Undergraduate Association’s Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize. She is the editor, along with the editorial team at AIWA Press, of the English translation of Srpuhi Dussap’s 19th-century feminist novel, Mayda: Echoes of Protest, published in 2020.