Dr. Alina Gharabegian Appointed New AUA Provost

YEREVAN, Armenia — The American University of Armenia (AUA) announced the appointment of new Provost Dr. Alina Gharabegian. Occupying various teaching roles since the age of 19, Dr. Gharabegian taught in California and New York — at California State University in Los Angeles and throughout four of the City University of New York’s campuses, teaching both literature and composition/rhetoric — before she was hired into a tenure track position at New Jersey City University (NJCU) in 2009. She served as chair of the English department at NJCU from 2014-17, vice president of NJCU’s Union for a term, and interim dean of AUA’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) during her Fulbright stint in the 2018-19 academic year.

“We are delighted to welcome Dr. Gharabegian to the role of provost of the American University of Armenia,” said AUA President Dr. Bruce Boghosian. “She brings a wealth of experience in academic administration, combined with familiarity with the AUA community from her time as acting dean here. As our chief academic officer, she is well equipped to raise the level of teaching and research at this institution to the next level. All of us on the AUA executive team are very much looking forward to working with her.”

Dr. Gharabegian holds B.A., M.A., and M.Phil. degrees in the field of English literature, as well as a Ph.D. in English, with an emphasis in Victorian poetry and poetics, from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), the largest urban university system in the United States. There, she also underwent extensive training and developed expertise in composition/rhetoric theory and pedagogy, in addition to her primary training in 19th-century British literature.