S. Peter Cowe is Narekatsi Professor of Armenian Studies at

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and has taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,

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, and

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. He is also a writer, researcher. His research interests include

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n history, modern

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, and Armenian film and theater. The author of five books in the field and the editor of four others, he is currently preparing a study on the earliest extant Armenian play from the seventeenth century. A regular contributor to Armenological journals, he is the editor of the Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies and has received a grant from the National Council on Eurasian and East European Research to investigate the post-Soviet publishing industry in

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. He is fluent in French, German, Greek and Armenian.

Books

*Commentary on the Divine Liturgy by Xosrov Anjewatsi (1991) *The Armenian Version of Daniel (1992) *Mxitar Sasnetsi's Theological Discourses (1993) *The Armenian Manuscripts (1994) *The Deaconess in the Armenian Church (1994), translator * (includes an essay by Cowe) *Modern Armenian Drama: An Anthology, co-editor & part. (2001)

References

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