Author Biographies

Martin Harutyunyan obtained his Bachelor's degree in Design in 2004 from the State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia, followed by a Master's degree in Design in 2010 from the same institution. In 2013, he earned a PhD in Arts in Armenia. He pursued academic and research exchanges in France, studying in Reims in 2009 and in Lyon from 2011 to 2012. Throughout his career, he has worked in both the public and private sectors as a graphic and industrial designer, as well as a lecturer in design history. He has taught at the State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia, the Institute of Arts of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, and Yerevan State University’s Ijevan branch, where he also served as Head of the Design Department. He has also held lead designer roles in several private companies. Currently, he is affiliated with the Institute of Arts of Armenia and is conducting architectural and design research in Saint-Étienne, France.
Dr. Gaiane Muradian is a Professor in the Department of English Philology at Yerevan State University (YSU), Armenia. She earned her degree in English Language and Literature from YSU's Faculty of Romance-Germanic Philology in 1982. She was awarded the degree of Candidate of Philological Sciences in 2004, with a dissertation on "The Juxtaposition of Factitiousness and Fictitiousness in English Public Discourse," and later attained her Doctor of Philological Sciences in 2017, focusing on "The Linguostylistic Peculiarities of English Science Fiction Discourse in the Context of Convergence of the Rational and the Imaginative". Since 1996, Dr. Muradian has been a faculty member at YSU, contributing extensively to the fields of functional stylistics, communication theory, public discourse, epistemology, and science fiction studies. She has presented her research at numerous international conferences across Europe, including events in the United Kingdom, Italy, Turkey, Slovakia, France, Ukraine, and Poland. In 2018, she served as a Visiting Professor at Ca' Foscari University in Venice, Italy.
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