Dr. Tatevik Gyulamiryan
Associate Professor of Spanish
Dr. Tatevik Gyulamiryan joined the Hope College World Languages and Cultures faculty in 2015. She teaches Spanish language and literature.
Her research encompasses various areas of the literature of Spain’s Golden Age (from the early 16th to the late 17th century) and comparative studies. With a central focus on the Bakhtinian concept of re-accentuation and quixotic novels, Dr. Gyulamiryan is interested in cognitive approaches to early modern Spanish literature — analysis of mind-reading, masking, and performance on both the author’s and the reader’s part.
In her 2024 monograph The Transnational Hero: Re-accentuations of Don Quixote in the Novel, she proposes a literary theorization of the term re-accentuation and offers ways in which quixotic literature can be read through the lens of re-accentuated readers, dreamers, adventurers and lovers. Her co-edited volume A Character Named Cervantes: On Screen, on Stage, and on the Page (2025) includes essays that explore the (bio)fictional image of Miguel de Cervantes in different modalities.
Education
- Ph.D., Spanish, Purdue University, 2015
- M.A., Spanish, Purdue University, 2010
- B.A., English and Spanish philology, education, Yerevan State Linguistic University, 2008
Areas of expertise
- Early modern Spain
- Don Quixote, Cervantes, and quixotic novels
- Comparative literature
- Cognitive approaches to literature
Honors, Grants & awards
- “The Other King: Leo V and His Lordship of Madrid,” Nyenhuis Summer Faculty Research Grant, 2024
- Symposium on Teaching Film and Literature to GenZ Students, Great Lakes Colleges Association grant, 2023
- “Emotions in Don Quixote,” with J. Breyfogle, Nyenhuis Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant, Hope College, 2019
- Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching Scholarship Award, University of Texas, 2017
- “The Transatlantic Hero: Re-accentuations of Don Quixote in European and American Novels,” Jacob E. Nyenhuis Summer Faculty Development Grant, Hope College, 2017
Selected publications
- A Character Named Cervantes: On Screen, on Stage, and on the Page (edited with Howard Mancing), University of Toronto Press, 2025
- The Transnational Hero: Re-accentuations of Don Quixote in the Novel, Juan de la Cuesta, 2024
- “Sancho re-acentuado y su teoría de la mente,” Letras, 2021
- “Performing the Other: Masking and Cognition in Cervantes’s Novelas ejemplare,” Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, 2020
- “A Quixotic Reading of Rainbow Rowell’s Carry On,” The ALAN Review, 2019
- “On Re-accentuation, Adaptation, and Imitation of Don Quixote,” in Don Quixote: The Re-accentuation of the World’s Greatest Hero, Bucknell University Press, 2017
- “Toward a Poetics of Re-accentuation: Don Quixote and His Female Mimeses,” in Cervantes ilimitado: Cuatrocientos años del Quijote, Asociación de Licenciados y Doctores Españoles en Estados Unidos (ALDEEU), 2016
Outside the college
Dr. Gyulamiryan likes playing Chopin on the piano, singing cellphone karaoke and reading. She also likes gardening and discovering new music. Her absolute favorite pastime is watching her daughter grow and making new memories with her family.

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gyulamiryan@hope.eduMartha Miller Center 223 257 Columbia Avenue Holland, MI 49423