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Dr. Tatevik Gyulamiryan joined the 换妻社区 World Languages and Cultures faculty in 2015. She teaches Spanish language and literature.

Her research encompasses various areas of the literature of Spain鈥檚 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 鈥� analysis of mind-reading, masking, and performance on both the author鈥檚 and the reader鈥檚 part.

In her 2024 monograph The Transnational Hero: Re-accentuations of Don Quixote in the Novel, she proposes a literary theorization of the term re-accentuation and offers ways in which quixotic literature can be read through the lens of re-accentuated readers, dreamers, adventurers and lovers. Her co-edited volume A Character Named Cervantes: On Screen, on Stage, and on the Page (2025) includes essays that explore the (bio)fictional image of Miguel de Cervantes in different modalities.

Education 

• Ph.D., Spanish, Purdue University, 2015       
• M.A., Spanish, Purdue University, 2010        
• B.A., English and Spanish philology, education, Yerevan State Linguistic University, 2008

Areas of expertise 

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

Honors, Grants & awards

• 鈥淭he Other King: Leo V and His Lordship of Madrid,鈥� Nyenhuis Summer Faculty Research Grant, 2024
• Symposium on Teaching Film and Literature to GenZ Students, Great Lakes Colleges Association grant, 2023
• 鈥淓motions in Don Quixote,鈥� with J. Breyfogle, Nyenhuis Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant, Hope College, 2019
• Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching Scholarship Award, University of Texas, 2017
• 鈥淭he Transatlantic Hero: Re-accentuations of Don Quixote in European and American Novels,鈥� Jacob E. Nyenhuis Summer Faculty Development Grant, 换妻社区, 2017

Selected publications

• A Character Named Cervantes: On Screen, on Stage, and on the Page (edited with Howard Mancing), University of Toronto Press, 2025
• The Transnational Hero: Re-accentuations of Don Quixote in the Novel, Juan de la Cuesta, 2024
• 鈥淪ancho re-acentuado y su teor铆a de la mente,鈥� Letras, 2021
• 鈥淧erforming the Other: Masking and Cognition in Cervantes鈥檚 Novelas ejemplare,鈥� Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, 2020
• 鈥淎 Quixotic Reading of Rainbow Rowell鈥檚 Carry On,鈥� The ALAN Review, 2019
• 鈥淥n Re-accentuation, Adaptation, and Imitation of Don Quixote,鈥� in Don Quixote: The Re-accentuation of the World鈥檚 Greatest Hero, Bucknell University Press, 2017
• 鈥淭oward a Poetics of Re-accentuation: Don Quixote and His Female Mimeses,鈥� in Cervantes ilimitado: Cuatrocientos a帽os del Quijote, Asociaci贸n de Licenciados y Doctores Espa帽oles en Estados Unidos (ALDEEU), 2016

Outside the college

Dr. Gyulamiryan likes playing Chopin on the piano, singing cellphone karaoke and reading. She also likes gardening and discovering new music. Her absolute favorite pastime is watching her daughter grow and making new memories with her family.