Maka Elbakidze
Maka Elbakidze – PhD, Associate Professor at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Deputy Director of TSU Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature.
Areas of research interests include: Rustaveli studies; the history of old and modern Georgian literature; comparative studies.
She is an author of more than 90 academic articles and two monographs: 1. Some Issues in The Knight in the Panther’s Skin in Typological Relation to the Medieval French Chivalric Romance (2007); 2. Rustaveli’s The Knight in the Panther’s Skin in the Context of World Literature (2018. In English, Lambert Academic Publishing).
She participated in numerous international and local academic conferences; she has been a Principle investigator and a key personnel of multiple academic grant projects, including those funded by the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation such as Georgian Literature and the World Literary Process (2012-2014); Intercultural Space: Rustaveli and Nizami (2017-2020) and is also a co- author and editor of monographs published within the frameworks of the above mentioned projects. She is the Editor–in-Chief of the annual academic journal Literaturuli Dziebani (Literary Researches) and a member of the editorial board of the H-indexed journal Sjani. Professor Elbakidze is a member of the Georgian Association of Comparative Literature (GCLA), and head of the organization committee of the annual international symposium ‘The Contemporary Issues of Literary Studies’. Member of the organizing committee of the XXIII Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (2022).