Alyssa Bedrosian
Graduate Fellow
She/Her/Hers
265 Hagerty Hall
1775 College Rd,
Columbus, OH 43210
Areas of Expertise
- 20th and 21st century Latin American cultural studies
- Women’s and gender studies
- Transnational feminisms
Education
- Ph.D., Latin American Cultural and Literary Studies, The Ohio State University (in progress)
- M.A., Latin American Cultural and Literary Studies, The Ohio State University, 2023
- M.A., Spanish, UNC Greensboro, 2019
- B.A., Communication and Spanish, Virginia Tech, 2013
Alyssa Bedrosian is a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and a 2024-25 Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme Graduate Team Fellow.
Bedrosian’s interdisciplinary research explores feminisms in Latin America and the United States. Her article, "How #NiUnaMenos Used Discourse and Digital Media to Reach the Masses in Argentina," was published in Latin American Research Review and is available here: https://www.doi.org/10.1017/lar.2022.6. Bedrosian's dissertation examines twenty-first-century Catholic feminism and abortion rights activism in Mexico, Argentina, and the United States.
Bedrosian recently served as a Graduate Associate for the Ohio State Center for Feminist Research, Education and Engagement (FREE Center) and the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. She has also served as a Graduate Teaching Associate and a Graduate Advising Assistant for the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, teaching intermediate Spanish language and culture courses and supporting undergraduate recruitment and advising efforts.
Prior to Ohio State, Bedrosian worked as a communications professional for nearly eight years, including six years in higher education. She holds a bachelor's degree in communication and Spanish from Virginia Tech, a master's degree in Spanish from UNC Greensboro, and a master's degree in Latin American Cultural and Literary Studies and a graduate minor in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies from Ohio State.