Lisa Gulesserian is Preceptor on Armenian at Harvard, where she teaches three levels of Western Armenian. 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 literary analysis articles on Micheline Aharonian Marcom’s trilogy about the Armenian Genocide have been published in Big Other and C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings. In 2024, she won the National LCTL Resource Center’s Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) Innovation Award. She is currently developing an interactive and communicative open educational resource textbook for Western Armenian, funded by a grant from Michigan State University’s Center for Language Teaching Advancement.