Shushan Avagyan

Shushan Avagyan is a doctoral student in English and comparative literature at Illinois State University. She has translated a volume of poetry by Shushanik Kurghinian and a book on plot by Viktor Shklovsky.

Me as Her Again: An utterly queer memoir

Nov 30, 2008: Nancy Agabian's "Me as Her Again" is a memoir about identity and family history, Shushan Avagyan writes in a review. It is also, perhaps in the vein of David Sedaris, a brazen examination of queerness, through a discovery of a queer self, the hilarious attempt to deny it through self-banishment, and, finally, the recognition and acceptance of that odd self.  more...

The Theatre of Genocide

Mar 22, 2008: Robert Skloot, Lorne Shirinian, Catherine Filloux, Kitty Felde, Erik Ehn. The Theatre of Genocide: Four Plays about Mass Murder in Rwanda, Bosnia, Cambodia, and Armenia. University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. 226 pp.  more...