Jesse S. Arlen is the director of the Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center at the Diocese of the Armenian Church of America (Eastern) and a research fellow at Fordham University’s Orthodox Christian Studies Center. He earned his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2021 with a dissertation entitled “A Window into the Tenth Century: The Life and Literary Works of Anania of Narek.”
His scholarly research pertains to monasticism and religious literature from late antiquity to the early modern period and his studies have appeared in a number of peer-reviewed journals, including Viator, Manuscripta, Hugoye, Armeniaca, the Revue des études arméniennes, and the Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies. He has also contributed chapters to several edited volumes. With Matthew J. Sarkisian, he is the co-author of Odes of Saint Nersess the Graceful: Annotated Translation (New York, NY: Tarkmaneal Press, 2024).
He has taught Classical Armenian at the University of Notre Dame, the Dumbarton Oaks/HMML summer language program, and St. Nersess Armenian Seminary, where he has also lectured on the Armenian historical tradition and medieval Armenian poetry.