Margarit Ordukhanyan holds a PhD in English literature and focuses on literary bilingualism, translation theory, émigré literature, and, most recently, translation pedagogy and its role in the language and humanities curricula. She is a published translator and scholar, and she teaches translation and literature at Hunter College.

She has authored numerous articles and book chapters on the intersection between literary bilingualism and translation theory. Her pedagogical focus is on teaching translation in the multilingual classroom and on the reintegration of translation into language instruction. In April, 2019, she organized and hosted a conference on teaching translation at Hunter College. As an active member of the American Literary Translators Association, she has organized and chaired multiple panels on translation and served on the selection jury for ALTA’s travel fellowship awards.

Dr. Ordukhanyan is a published translator of poetry and prose from her native Armenian and Russian into English and has contributed to collections and anthologies both in the US and abroad. She is currently working on translating into English short stories by Aram Pachyan.

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