![]() She speaks seven languages including Armenian, French, Arabic, Turkish, English, Spanish and Russian. She was one of the moderators for the University of California, Los Angeles World Conference in Contemporary Armenian Literature on April 7–8, 2011. ![]() ![]() She has also contributed to Pakine in Beirut with literary works. She has been an active journalist and has submitted to many Armenian newspapers such as Aztag (daily) in Beirut, Azat Or in Greece, Asbarez in Los Angeles, Artsakank in Cyprus, and Hairenik in Watertown, Massachusetts. She has been a senior lecturer in University of California, Los Angeles for seventeen years from 1983 to 2000. She has a strong interest in feminist topics, about which she made many presentations and contributed articles in Armenian publications in the United States and abroad. Her dissertation is titled A Feminist Reading of Krikor Zohrab. After moving to the United States, Vorperian enrolled and graduated UCLA, where she received Bachelor of Arts degree in Near Eastern Studies, Master's degree in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, and a Doctoral Degree in the field of Armenian literature and literary criticism. Joseph University in Beirut where she studied Armenology. Of Armenian descent, Rita Vorperian was born in Aleppo, Syria and graduated from the local Karen Yeppe Armenian High School.
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