Service


Service has always been an integral part of my work at every university where I have taught. Whenever possible, I connect the content of my classes to real issues in the local community. For example, my students have completed projects that expose rhetorical fallacies in speeches by local politicians or have developed proposals and designed materials for educational supplements used in regional Armenian schools.

Over the past four years, I have collaborated on research projects with both students and faculty to strengthen the university’s ties to the wider community. I also serve on the board of AUA’s AGBU Papazian Library and advise two student organizations—TEDxAUA and The World of Culture club.

In addition, I am an associate editor for the International Exchanges on the Study of Writing book series at the WAC Clearinghouse.

              2024                            Assistant editor for the 2023 issue of 
                                                            Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 
              
              2021-now                 AUA TEDxAUA Club Advisor

             2022-2024                 AUA Shakespeare Fall Fest

              2021-2022                 Work on Student Multimodal Composition Assessment

               2019-2022                 AUA Academic Standards Committee Member

                2020-2021                Developed and implemented a Common Read    
                                                      Program at AUA  

                2020-2021                AUA IRB Board Member

                2020-2021                AUA Library Advisory Committee Member

                2020-2021                AUA Student Book Club Advisor 

                2019-2021                AUA WAC Initiative Workshop Series                 
                    
                2017-2019                 WSU Professional Development Initiative Writer
                                                      Workshop Series