Irma Ratiani, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Georgian specialist in literature and translator
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Place of Birth: Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, Georgia
About Irma Ratiani
- Irma Ratiani (Georgian: ???? ???????) (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.
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