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Karine Åkerman Sarkisian is an Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages at Uppsala University, focusing on Slavic Languages. She completed her PhD in Slavonic Languages and holds an MA in Romance Languages. Her research interests center around medieval translations, Byzantine hagiography, and Old Church Slavonic, with a strong emphasis on traditional text criticism and analysis of early translation practices. Åkerman Sarkisian's current research incorporates advances in translation studies to explore early translations and medieval texts, specifically the collections of Apophthegmata Patrum, which are monastic sayings. She has contributed to projects funded by the Swedish Research Council and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, investigating the cultural evolution of texts using crosslinguistic approaches and statistical methods. Åkerman Sarkisian has also collaborated with scholars on the project 'Formative Wisdom: Reception Monastic Sayings European Culture', aimed at developing a digital platform for scholarly collaboration.
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