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Marine Aykazyan

Visiting Instructor of French
Seaver College
PLC 180
310.506.4512

Biography

Marine Aykazyan received her C.Phil degree in French and Francophone Studies from UCLA. She also holds B.A. degrees in French and English. She specializes in medieval literature. Her interests include Mediterranean Studies, crusade historiography, and medieval rhetoric and epistemology. Her research focuses on Franco-Armenian relations in the medieval Mediterranean during the crusades of the eleventh to the fourteenth century. She works with texts across different disciplines, genres, and languages, including Old French, Latin, and Classical Armenian. 

Education

  • C.Phil., UCLA 

 

“The Poetics of Truth in Nerses Shnorhali’s Lament on Edessa.” University of California, Los Angeles. UCLA Colloquium in Armenian Studies, February 17, 2012 

“Between Crusades: Armenian Intermediaries in the Medieval Mediterranean.” University of California, Los Angeles. CMRS Ahmanson Conference, “Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean.” February 1, 2013.

​​George T. and Margaret W. Romani Fellowship, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at UCLA, 2009 – 2010

Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, 2011

Courses

  • French 151
  • French 152
  • French 251
  • French 252