Doctor of Sciences in Philology, Researcher at the Department of Ancient and Medieval Armenian Literature of the Institute of Literature after M. Abegyan of NAS RA, Professor at the Department of Armenian Language and Literature of Vanadzor State University after O. Tumanyan. Scientific interests: ancient Armenian and medieval Armenian literature, textual studies with presentation of ancient Armenian (in grabar) originals, folklore studies, modern Armenian literature and literary criticism. Author of 33 books and over 100 articles.