Featured speaker: Aram Mrjoian, University of Michigan

Wednesday, December 3, 4:00 PM ET / 1:00 PM PT
University of Michigan, 55 Weiser Hall

Hybrid event: click here to join on Zoom.

As a young artist beginning to write about my Armenian ethnicity, Aram Mrjoian became fascinated with the conventions and recommendations editors used to mediate his stories and essays. This became a central question in proposing and editing the anthology We Are All Armenian: Voices from the Diaspora and in drafting my debut novel, Waterline. This talk will explore navigating the process of writing about the diasporan Armenian experience in literary fiction and nonfiction today, and his intentionality in disrupting traditional narrative patterns in the publishing industry.

Aram Mrjoian is the managing editor of Michigan Quarterly Review and a 2022 Creative Armenia-AGBU Fellow. He is the author of the novel Waterline and the editor of the anthology We Are All Armenian: Voices from the Diaspora. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, Runner’s World, Literary Hub, Catapult, West Branch, Electric Literature, Gulf Coast, Boulevard, Joyland, Longreads, and many other publications. He lives in Michigan.

Organized by the Center for Armenian Studies at the University of Michigan

Co-sponsored by the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR).