Jesse S. Arlen

Jesse S. Arlen is a scholar of the religious literature and intellectual history of medieval Armenia, with particular attention to asceticism and mysticism. He is the co-author of Odes of Saint Nersess the Graceful: Annotated Translation (New York: Tarkmaneal Press, 2024), and is completing a monograph on the life and literary works of the tenth-century abbot Anania of Narek monastery. Before joining the Harvard faculty, Dr. Arlen was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Armenian Christian Studies at Fordham University’s Orthodox Christian Studies Center and the Director of the Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center of the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of America.