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Viken Berberian
Viken Berberian
MSc, London School of Economics, MSc , Columbia University, BA, UCLA. Research interests: Rhetoric, Comics, Capital Markets.
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Senior Lecturer
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
https://people.aua.am/team_member/viken-berberian/

EC 140 Expository Writing / Small Auditorium
EC 141 Persuasive Writing
EC 229 The Graphic Novel / Small Auditorium
EC 243 Creative Non-Fiction
EC 246 Business and Data Journalism Room 315E
EC 130 Journalism / Small Auditorium

Office Hours: M/W 12:30-1:30 and
by appointment, Faculty Lounge.

American International Consortium of Academic Libraries, AMICAL, participant.

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

"After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books." -- Albert Camus
The chances of serendipitous discoveries increase exponentially when cognitively diverse teams work across disciplines.

Short Bio:

Viken Berberian is the author of the novels The Cyclist (Simon & Schuster, 2002, Minimum Fax/Italy, Au Diable Vauvert/France, Modan/Israel, Houtkiet/Netherlands), and Das Kapital: a novel of love & money markets (Simon & Schuster, 2007, Edition Gallmeister/France), and with Yann Kebbi of the graphic novel The Structure Is Rotten, Comrade (Fantagraphics Books, 2019, Actes Sud/France 2017, Edition Moderne/Switzerland, 2020). He received his MSc in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics (1994), his MSc in journalism from Columbia University (1990), and his BA in Political Science from UCLA (1989). Recipient of the university's 2024-2025 Teaching Excellence Award. An Albertine Foundation and Villa Albertine laureate (2024) for translation (French / category: memoir).

Publications:

The New York Times, the Financial Times, Granta (memoir), Le Monde Diplomatique, BOMB, the London Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, the New York Review of Books (fiction), Kometa, Éditions Inculte, Foreign Affairs (memoir in a peer reviewed journal).