Deanna Cachoian-Schanz

Deanna Cachoian-Schanz is an interdisciplinary scholar and translator who studies race, speciation, and the human in cultural production across post-Ottoman geographies and their diasporas. Her book in progress, From Kin to Kind, examines these questions in late-to-post-Ottoman Turkey. She has been appointed Assistant Professor of Literary Studies at the American University of Armenia. Her translation of Shushan Avagyan's A Book, Untitled was published by AWST Press and Tilted Axis Press in 2023 and won a Modernist Studies Association translation award.