Irma Ratiani
Irma Ratiani is a Georgian literary scholar, editor and translator. She is a professor of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Head of the Department of General and Comparative Literary Studies. From 2006 till now she is a director of Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature. She is a President of the Georgian Comparative Literature Association (GCLA).
The major field of Irma Ratiani’s 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-literary processes by using contemporary methodologies and approaches; revision and analysis of literary processes of Soviet and Post-Soviet period Georgian literature.
In 2018 her long-time work - Georgian Literature and the World Literary Process was published by Peter Lang Publishing. In 2020, the same publishing house has printed her new book – Anti-utopian Mood, Liminality, and Literature.
In 2019 Irma ratiani was awarded Saguramo literary award for her book – Georgian Literature and the World Literary Process. 2012 Irma Ratiani was awarded the Grigol Kiknadze Scientific Award for the monograph – The Text and the Chronotop.
In 2013 Irma Ratiani was awarded an Order of Presidential Excellence of Georgia for her contribution to the internationalization of Georgian culture Irma Ratiani is an author of several books, textbooks and more than 80 scientific articles.
She is an editor in chief and co-author of books - Totalitarianism and Literary Discourse. 20 th Century Experience, and - Literature in Exile. Emigrants Fiction, published, respectively, in 2012 and 2016 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing (CSP); and the book - Bolshevism and Georgian Literature (1921-1941), published in Georgia by Mtsignobari Press in 2016. She is an editor and co- author of newly released book, by CSP - Identifying Cultural Intersections in the Works of Shota Rustaveli and Nizami Ganjavi (2023), and editor in chief and co-author of the upcoming book – Georgian Literature. Handbook, by the Brill Publishers.
Every year, in September, under her leadership, an International Symposium organized by Georgian Comparative Literature Association, Tbilisi State University and Institute of Georgian Literature takes place in Tbilisi, Georgia, welcoming numerous guests from all over the world.
In 2022 she was a head of an organizing committee of ICLA International Congress in Tbilisi, Georgia.
From 2007 Irma Ratiani is an editor in-chief of an international refereed journal Sjani.