Dr. Roberta Ervine
Professor of Armenian Studies
After informal lessons in Armenian language from the late Rev. Fr. Levon Arakelian at Holy Ascension parish in Trumbull, CT, Roberta Ervine enrolled in the newly-reopened Armenian Studies Program at Columbia University, where she studied with Profs. Nina Garsoïan, James Russell, and Very Rev. Fr. Krikor Maksoudian. She holds her PhD from Columbia University. Dissertation research led her to Jerusalem, where she lived in the Armenian Monastery of St. James as a disciple of His Grace Abp. Norayr Bogharian, curator of manuscripts. For sixteen of her twenty-one years in the Holy City, Prof. Ervine taught for the Holy Translators Academy; she also lectured for several other Jerusalem institutions, including the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2001 she returned to the United States to teach at St. Nersess Armenian Seminary, where she lectures on topics related to the history of Armenian Christianity and Armenian Christian thought.
RESEARCH INTERESTS Prof. Ervine pursues topics related to the history of Armenians in Jerusalem and the intellectual tradition of the Armenian middle ages (particularly the thinking of Vanakan Vardapet, Vardan the Great and Hovhannēs of Erznka). She is also interested in medieval Armenian grammatical texts. CURRENT PROJECTS Current projects include work on a new, annotated translation of St. Nersēs Shnorhali's Letters, the first volume of which will appear in 2011. In addition, Dr. Ervine's translation of the lengthy Questions and Answers of Vanakan Vardapet will appear serially in the pages of the St. Nersess Theological Review, beginning with vol. 14. PUBLICATIONS Forthcoming
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Dr. Roberta Ervine
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