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Assistant Professor
College of Humanities & Social Sciences
https://people.aua.am/team_member/rafik-santrosyan/
PAB 136W

Office hours by appointment

Faculty Senate Chair

My view: (Please briefly describe your view on the three concepts below)

A society founded in logic, universality, and innovation is a safer place for everyone. I teach because I am convinced we could live in a better world if it comprised individuals who were schooled to be and not to become, who were guided and not taught, who were let and not led into their unique talents, who were noticed and not just seen, who were heard and not merely listened to, who produced and did not just consume, who questioned and did not just conform, who acted and did not just react.
Gender Linguistics, Multimodal Social Semiotics, Simultaneous Interpreting
Rafik Santrosyan has over a decade been offering his professional services as a language expert and simultaneous interpreter at events of various formats both nationally and internationally, held by the UN Armenia, UNHCR, UNDP, ILO, UNIDO, Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy, Asian Development Bank, Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Center for Agribusiness and Rural Development (CARD), HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation, Armenian Government, Control Chamber of the Republic of Armenia, Immigration and Naturalization Services, Ministry of Security and Justice of the Netherlands, Yerevan Perspectives International Music Festival, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Heinrich Böll Foundation, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Perkins School for the Blind, Austrian Parliament amongst many others.

Short Bio:

Rafik Santrosyan received his PhD in Germanic Linguistics from Yerevan State Linguistic University in 2015. He has served as a lecturer at Yerevan State Linguistic University, American University of Armenia, and as a visiting professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy, University of Duke, USA, and a post-doctoral fellow at City College, International Faculty of the University of Sheffield, Greece. He worked as a research fellow at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland; Center for Women’s and Gender Studies of the University of Paris 8, France; and at the University of Padova, Italy. Santrosyan’s teaching and research interests lie in the fields of gender linguistics, multimodal semiotics, and simultaneous interpreting. His current research examines the interconnectedness of grammatical gender and language-mediated cultural discriminatory practices.

Publications:

Spetsifika yazikovogo prelomlenia tematiki genotsida v vistupleniakh prezidenta SSHA Baraka Obami [Semantic Analysis of President Obama’s Oral Representation of the Armenian Genocide]. Bulletin of Yerevan Bryusov State University of Languages and Social Sciences, Series: Linguistics. 2017
Causativity as a Narrativization Mechanism, Bulletin of Yerevan Bryusov State University of Languages and Social Sciences, Series: Linguistics. N 1(32). Yerevan, Lingva, 2015, pp 230-239 (in Armenian);
Causation and Public Approaches to the Law, Kantegh: Academic Papers: 2-3 (59-60), Asoghik, Yerevan, 2014, pp 145-154 (in Armenian);
Simultaneity of Events as a Linguistic Means of Expressing Causation, Bulletin of Moscow State Regional Institute of the Humanities, Series: Philology, Linguistics and Intercultural Communication. N 2 (2014). Orekhovo-Zuevo, 2014, pp 50-53. (in Russian);
Macro- and Micro-Causation as Elements of Linguistic Reconstruction of a Criminal Case, Bulletin of Yerevan State Linguistic University “Bryusov”, Philology, 1 (28), Yerevan, Lingva, 2013, pp 86-93 (in Armenian).

Համաճարակի լեզուն (The Language of the Pandemic), Cultural & Social Narratives Laboratory
https://covidlanguage.csnlab.net
Not What but Why: the Nature of Patriarchy, Mar 20, 2018
https://evnreport.com/raw-unfiltered/not-what-but-why-the-nature-of-patriarchy/

Sex vs Gender through Linguistic Expression in Armenian, Sep, 2017. https://evnreport.com/arts-and-culture/sex-vs-gender-through-linguistic-expression-in-armenian/

The Human Rights Situation of LGBTI Individuals in Armenia. A Practical Assessment, SWV. Yerevan 2016, p 44 [Translation into Armenian]