# Irma Ratiani

Irma Ratiani (Georgian: ირმა რატიანი) is a literary theoretician, comparatist and translator, Doctor of Philological Sciences (2003), Professor (2004) at Tbilisi State University, Head of the Department of General and Comparative Literary Studies (since 2006); Director of the research center - Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature (since 2006).
Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, Irma Ratiani graduated from the Tbilisi State University (specialization Theory of Literature). She received Candidate of Philological Sciences degree from Tbilisi State University, and Doctor of Philological Sciences (PhD) degree, at the same University.
From 2004-2006 she was a Head of the Department of Literary Theory at Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature. From 2006 to present she is a Director of Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature. From 2006 to present she is a Head of the Department of General and Comparative Literary Studies at Tbilisi State University. She received JSPS Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Scholarship for three times and was working at the Faculty of Language and Culture, at Osaka University, Japan. In 2005 she received US State Department Scholarship, in the framework of University Partnership Program and was a visiting scholar at Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Johns Hopkins University. She received a number of international scholarships, including: DAAD Scholarship and Cambridge University scholarship. She is a multiple recipient of Erasmus and Erasmus + scholarships for academics.
The major field of her scientific interest includes: literary theory, general and comparative literary studies in a broad cultural context; analysis of various literary genres and directions, literary schools and formations in the frame of international cultural and literary processes, by using contemporary methodologies and approaches; revision and analysis of literary processes of Soviet and Post-Soviet period.
She is an author of several monographs, books, textbooks and more than 100 scientific articles, including:
Georgian Literature and the World Literary Process. Peter Lang GmbH, 2018. https://www.peterlang.com/document/1062463
Anti-utopian Mood, Liminality, and Literature. Peter Lang GmbH, 2020. https://www.peterlang.com/document/1111516
She is an Editor of the books:
Identifying Cultural Intersections in the Works of Shota Rustaveli and Nizami Ganjavi. Cambridge Svholars Publishing, 2024. Literature in Exile: Emigrants' Fiction, 20th Century Experience, Cambridge Svholars Publishing, 2016.
Totalitarianism and Literary Discourse. 20th Century Experience", Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.
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In 2022 Irma Ratiani was an organizer of the XXIII World Congress of the AILC/ICLA in Tbilisi.

## Others

Editor in Chief of Annual Scientific Journal of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature published in Georgia - Sjani (Thoughts); President of Georgian Comparative Literature Association (GCLA); Member of the EC of International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) https://web.archive.org/web/20131012025814/http://www.ailc-icla.org/site/. In 2018-2023 she was an invited professor to Sand Diego University Georgia.

## Awards

2022 Awarded with the Golden Medal of Tbilisi State University for Academic Breakthrough
2019 Awarded with Saguramo Literary Prize for Literary Criticism
2013 Awarded with the Presidential Order of Excellence
2013 Awarded with the Taras Shevchenko Order of Honor
2012 Awarded with Grigol Kiknadze Prize for the best monography