Housepian Dobkin was born in 1922 to Dr. Moses Housepian and his wife Makrouhie Housepian (née Ashjian), Armenian immigrants in New York City, two and a half months after her grandfather was killed by a Turkish soldier during the burning of Smyrna from which her grandmother fled as a refugee. Her younger brother was the neurosurgeon Edgar Housepian. She attended Barnard College, graduating in 1944. She was a professor of literature and writing from 1957 to 1993,[4] as well as associate dean of studies at Barnard from 1976 until 1993. Her students included the novelist Margaret Cezair-Thompson.[5]
Her academic career included: instructor in English at Barnard College (1957–1988), associate dean of studies (1976–1993), professor of English (1988–1993), and 1993–2013: professor emerita (1993–2013).
^"Armenian Church". www.armenianchurch-ed.net. Archived from the original on August 16, 2013. Retrieved January 12, 2022.
^"Errol Flynn was missing character – Sun Sentinel". August 10, 2008.
^page 47, Kessabtzis in U.S.A. and Canada 1990 30th Edition, directory of Kessabtzis (Armenians from her father Dr. Moses M. Housepian's hometown of Kessab, and their descendants) published by the Kessab Educational Association of Los Angeles, Inc. (a Californianonprofit corporation)
^http://studyofgenocide.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/isg_48.pdf Bulletin of the Institute for the Study of Genocide p. 6: In Memoriam notice
^https://archive.org/stream/barnardalumnae731barn/barnardalumnae731barn_djvu.txt Barnard Alumnae Fall 1983 p. 29
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