Irma Ratiani
Irma Ratiani () (born July 19, 1967) is a literary theoretician and translator, Doctor of Philological Sciences (2003), Professor (2004), full professor at the Tbilisi State University (since 2006). Head of the Department of General and Comparative Literary Studies; Director of Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature; Editor in Chief of Annual Scientific Journals Sjani (Thoughts) and LitInfo; Member of a number of international scientific organizations and associations. Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, Irma Ratiani graduated from the Tbilisi State University (specialization Theory of Literature) in 1989. She received Candidate of Philological Sciences degree from Tbilisi State University in 1992 , and Doctor of Philological Sciences (PhD) degree in 2003. 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 the 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. In 1997-1998 and 2002 she received JSPS Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Scholarship and she 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 she was a visiting scholar at Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Johns Hopkins University. In 2006 she received DAAD Scholarship and worked at the University of Saarland, in the Department of General and Comparative Literary Studies. In 2010 Irma Ratiani received Cambridge University scholarship. The major field of the 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. Author of several monographs, books, textbooks and more than 80 scientific articles; Editor of the book - Totalitarianism and Literary Discourse. 20th Century Experience" (published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 2012). (https://www.amazon.com/Totalitarianism-Literary-Discourse-Century-Experience/dp/1443834459) In 2008 she published “100 Verses from Old Japan”, translations with comments. Other. 2008 –2013 President of Georgian Comparative Literature Association (GCLA) (http://geclaorg.ge/structure.htm) 2006 to present a member of International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) (https://web.archive.org/web/20131012025814/http://www.ailc-icla.org/site/) Awards. 2019 Awarded 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 the Grigol Kiknadze Prize for the best monography Bibliography. Antiutopian Mood, Liminality and Literature, 2020 Georgian Literature and World Literary Process, 2019 Text and Chronotope, 2010 Chronotope in Ilia Chavchavadze’s Fiction, 2006 Chronotope in the Anti-utopian Fiction. Interpretation of an Eschatological Anti-utopia, 2005 Introduction to Literary Studies, 2012 Fable and Plot, 2011 Genre Theory, 2009 Theory of Literature. The Basic Methodological Conceptions and Schools of XX century, 2008 Traditions of European Drama and a New Georgian Theatre, 2012 Lectures in the Literary Theory. Theoretical Conception of Mikhail  Bakhtin (theory of genre, dialogism, theory of chronotop); Anthropological Theoretical Conception (liminal theory of time and space), 2005 Lectures in the Literary Theory. Theory of Genre. Formation and development, 2005 Japanese Diaries, 2000, 2002 100 Verses from Old Japan, 2008