Sona Mnatsakanyan earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Armenian Studies from Yerevan State University. Since 2020, she has been pursuing her doctoral studies in the Department of Slavonic Languages and Literatures at Humboldt University of Berlin. She is also a member of the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research, titled Constructing a New Center for the New Self: Reading Mkrtich Armen's Novel “Yerevan” in the Context of (Post-)Soviet Literary Nation-Building, examines how literary narratives shape spatial imagery and contribute to the formation of local and national identities.
