Lisa Gulesserian is Preceptor on Armenian Language and Culture at Harvard, where she teaches three levels of Western Armenian. In 2024, she won the National LCTL Resource Center’s Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) Innovation Award. At Harvard and elsewhere, she has taught courses on memory, traumatic pasts, ghosts, female revolutionaries, and contemporary Armenian film and literature. She is the editor along with the editorial team at AIWA Press of the English translation of Srpuhi Dussap’s nineteenth-century feminist novel, Mayda: Echoes of Protest, published in 2020. Her article “Listen Up: Collective Armenian Genocide Postmemory in Micheline Aharonian Marcom’s Three Apples Fell from Heaven” was published in C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings in 2023. Along with her collaborator at Columbia University, she received a $30,000 grant (from Michigan State University’s Less Commonly Taught and Indigenous Languages partnership) to develop an online open educational resource (OER) to teach Modern Western Armenian. The team is currently piloting their completed OER.