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Irakli Tskhvediani

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Education

The University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States

20/01/2004 – 20/05/2004

EXCHANGE SCHOLAR/TRAINEE, FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM IN AMERICAN STUDIES The University of Montana

Akaki Tsereteli State University

1998 – 2002

DOCTOR OF PHILOLOGY

Kutaisi Akaki Tsereteli State University

1992 – 1998

PHILOLOGIST-ANGLIST, A TEACHER OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (EQUAL TO MA)

Academic/scientific degree

Doctor of Philology

Work experience

AKAKI TSERETELI STATE UNIVERSITY

2010 – CURRENT

HEAD, MA PROGRAM IN AMERICAN STUDIES

AKAKI TSERETELI STATE UNIVERSITY

2006 – CURRENT

PROFESSOR

CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY IN RUZOMBEROK

29/11/2021 – 03/12/2021

ERASMUS + KA 107 GUEST LECTURER

CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY IN RUZOMBEROK

01/09/2021 – 27/11/2021

VISITING SCHOLAR

AKAKI TSERETELI STATE UNIVERSITY

2008 – 2021

CO-HEAD, PHD PROGRAM IN WESTERN EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN LITERATURE

UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA

09/12/2019 – 13/12/2019

ERASMUS GUEST PROFESSOR THE

CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY IN RUZOMBEROK

2018 – 2019

VISITING SCHOLAR

ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA UNIVERSITY OF IASI

16/05/2016 – 20/05/2016

ERASMUS GUEST PROFESSOR

ILIA STATE UNIVERSITY

01/10/2015 – 30/01/2016

VISITING PROFESSOR

THE UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ

2014 – 2015

ERASMUS POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW

BATUMI SHOTA RUSTAVELI STATE UNIVERSITY

2012 – 2013

VISITING PROFESSOR

THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SANTA CRUZ

2010 – 2011

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, LITERATURE DEPARTMENT

AKAKI TSERETELI STATE UNIVERSITY

2005 – 2011

CHAIR, DEPARTMENT OF WESTERN EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN LITERATURE

KUTAISI AKAKI TSERETELI STATE UNIVERSITY

01/02/2003 – 30/08/2006

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, HISTORY OF FOREIGN LITERATURE DEPARTMENT

KUTAISI AKAKI TSERETELI STATE UNIVERSITY

2001 – 2003

Kutaisi, Georgia SENIOR LECTURER, HISTORY OF FOREIGN LITERATURE DEPARTMENT

KUTAISI AKAKI TSERETELI STATE UNIVERSITY

1999 – 2001

Kutaisi, Georgia LECTURER, HISTORY OF FOREIGN LITERATURE DEPARTMENT

Scientific publications of the last 10 years

The Reception of Goethe in Victorian Literature

The Humanities in the Age of Globalization: Selected Papers from the International Conference. Kutaisi: Akaki Tsereteli State University Press, 2023 (under submission)
Tskhvediani I.

Ecocritical Reading of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road

Proceedings of the Biennial International Conference on American Studies, Vol. X. Ed. Tskhvediani, Irakli. Kutaisi: Akaki Tsereteli State University Press, 2023.
Tskhvediani I.

The Mytheme of the Way in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road

Text and Interpretation. Tbilisi: Tbilisi State University Press, 2023. https://interpretation.tsu.ge/index.php/main/article/view/23
Tskhvediani I.

Joyce und Goethe

Goethe-Tage, Vol. 16. Kutaisi: Akaki Tsereteli State University Press, 2023 (in German)
Tskhvediani I.

Joyce and Goethe: “Un noioso funzionario”?

Sjani: Journal of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 24, 2023: 280-298.
Tskhvediani I.

El Caballero de la Orden de la Soledad

Laotra: Revista de Poesia + Artes Visuales + Otras Letras, May 7, 2023 (in Spanish, trans. Mohsen Emadi).
Tskhvediani I.

Remythologizing in Literature: Towards a Methodology

Apinazhi, Vol. VII-VIII (17), 2023: 67-76.
Tskhvediani I. Kakauridze N.

American Gothic

Proceedings of the International Biennial Conference on American Studies, Vol. IX. Ed. Tskhvediani, Irakli. Kutaisi: ATSU Press, 2022: 287-325.
Tskhvediani I.

Modernist Mythopoeia: Myth, Archetype & Collective Unconscious

Akaki Tsereteli State University Scientific Journal Moambe, 1 (19), 2022: 50-62.
Tskhvediani I. Kakauridze N. Nozadze L.

Modernist Mythopoeia: The Uses of Myth in Modernist Literature (James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Marcel Proust)

Monograph. Kutaisi: Akaki Tsereteli State University Press, 2022
Tskhvediani I. Kakauridze N. Nozadze L.

‘Nausicaa’: Fragmented Narrative, Montage and Narrative Form

Joyspace: James Joyce and Space. Joyce Studies in Italy, Vol. 23, 2021: 17-31. Rome: Edizioni Anicia.
Tskhvediani I.

“Across the Main Caucasus Ridge”: The Caucasus Writings of George Kennan

Eurasiatica. Vol. 18: 183-204. Venice: Ca'Foscari University Press, 2021.
Tskhvediani I.

Mythopoeic Chronotope in John Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer

Sjani: Journal of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 21, 2020: 81-105. http://sjani.ge/sjani-21/cxvedirakl.pdf
Tskhvediani I.

James Joyce Studies in Georgia. Chapter I. In: James Joyce Studies and Translations in Georgia. Ed. Gelashvili, Manana.

Tbilisi: Tbilisi State UP, 2020: 9-26 (in Georgian); 208-219 (in English)
Tskhvediani I.

James Joyce Studies in Georgia – 2020 James Joyce and the World: Selected Papers from the International Conference. Ed. Gelashvili, Manana.

Tbilisi: Tbilisi State UP, 2020: 155-166 https://rustaveli.org.ge/res/docs/04d7eef52f0a519f9c02917bf0d19995fe24afe1.pdf
Tskhvediani I.

Dissolving Temporal Sequence: Spatial Form in James Joyce’s Ulysses ('Nausicaa' Episode) – 2018

Journal of Literature and Art Studies, Vol. 8, No. 3, 2018: 359-365
Tskhvediani I.

Translation as a Means of Intercultural Dialogue

Languages, Cultures, Translation, Vol. 1. Moscow: Moscow State University Press, 2016: 240-246.
Tskhvediani I.

John Dos Passos’s Manhattan Transfer as a Polychronotopic Novel

Proceedings of the Biennial International Conference on American Studies, Vol. VIII. Ed. Tskhvediani, Irakli.Kutaisi: ATSU Press, 2016: 351-373
Tskhvediani I.

Shakespearean Parallel as an Element of Mythic Structure in James Joyce’s Ulysses

Shakespeare 450: A Jubilee Volume. Eds. Gelashvili, Manana & David Maziashvili. Tbilisi: Universal, 2015: 211-216.
Tskhvediani I.

John Dos Passos's Urban Saga: “Center of Things” or Phantasmagoric Labyrinth?

Arili, 4(234), 2015: 40-48.
Tskhvediani I.

Mythic Dimension of the City in John Dos Passos’s Manhattan Transfer

Language and Culture, Vol. III. Selected Papers of the International Conference. Ed. Mikadze, Manana. Kutaisi, 2015: 406-415
Tskhvediani I.

John Dos Passos and His Novel Manhattan Transfer

Proceedings of the Biennial International Conference on American Studies, Vol. VII. Ed. Tskhvediani, Irakli. Kutaisi: ATSU Press, 2014: 221-247.
Tskhvediani I.

Scientific conferences

The XVI James Joyce Italian Foundation Conference

2024
University Roma Tre, Rome, Italy

International Conference “The Humanities in the Age of globalization”

2023
Akaki Tsereteli State University, Kutaisi, Georgia

Text and Interpretation: Conference dedicated to the memory of Professor Temur Kobakhidze

2023
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia

The XV James Joyce Italian Foundation Conference

2023
University Roma Tre, Rome, Italy

10th International Conference on American Studies

2022
Akaki Tsereteli State University, Kutaisi, Georgia

International Conference “Ulysses 100”

2022
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia Link https://www.gau.edu.ge/storage/app/media/uploaded-files/Conference Updated.pd

34th EAAS Conference Presentation: Urban Wastelands of Literary Modernism

2022
Madrid, Spain

The 27th International James Joyce Conference

2021
Trieste, Italy

Goethe Tage

2021
Akaki Tsereteli State University, Kutaisi, Georgia

The Annual Conference of the Italian Association for the Study of Central Asia and the Caucasus

2020
Rome, Italy https://www.asiac.net/eventi/asiac-conference-2020/ Link https://www.asiac.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Asiac-programme_2020.pdf

(Un)Fair Cities: Equity, Ideology and Utopia in Urban Texts International Conference of the Association for Literary Urban Studies & Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies.

2019
Limerick, Ireland Link https://unfaircities2019.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/unfair-cities-programme-latest.pdf

The Annual Conference of the Italian Association for the Study of Central Asia and the Caucasus

2019
Rome, Italy http://www.asiac.net Link https://www.asiac.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2019-ASIAC-Rome-conference_programme.pdf

The Humanities in the Age of Globalization: International Conference

2019
Akaki Tsereteli State University, Kutaisi, Georgia

International Conference “James Joyce and the World

2019
Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and James Joyce Association of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia

The 28th Ezra Pound International Conference (EPIC)

2019
Salamanca, Spain https://ezrapoundsociety.org/index.php/conferences/256-epic-salamanca-2019

14th International Conference of the Spanish Association for American Studies (SAAS)

2019
Salamanca, Spain http://www.saasweb.org/SAAS2019Program.htm

The XII Italian James Joyce Foundation Conference

2019
University Roma Tre, Rome, Italy https://thejamesjoyceitalianfoundation.wordpress.com

9th Biennial International Conference on American Studies

2018
Akaki Tseereteli State University, Kutaisi, Georgia

Third Biennial John Dos Passos Conference

2018
Lisbon, Portugal http://johndospassossociety.org/main-page/third-biennial-2/

“The Art of James Joyce”: XXVI International James Joyce Symposium

2018
The University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium http://uahost.uantwerpen.be/joyce2018/wp-content/files_joyce2018/2018/06/schedule.pdf

Transatlantic Walt Whitman Association’s 11th Annual International Whitman Symposium

2018
Dortmund, Germany http://iaawiki.tu-dortmund.de/images/FlyerTWWA.pdf

Linguistic and Literary Studies on the Caucasus

2018
The University of Verona, Verona, Italy https://www.dlls.univr.it/documenti/Avviso/all/all944932.pdf

18th International Conference on American Studies

2017
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia

8th Biennial International Conference on American Studies

2016
Akaki Tsereteli State University, Kutaisi, Georgia

Languages, Cultures, Translation: International Conference

2016
Heraklion, Greece

International Conference in Slavic Studies

2016
Cluj, Romania

II International Conference: Perspectives in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Hinting at Interdisciplinarity

2016
The University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania https://conferencephss.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/phss-3_final-programme1.pdf

Time and Space in T. S. Eliot and His Contemporaries: International Conference

2015
Florence, Italy

Space Oddities: Urbanity, American Identity, and Cultural Exchange 41 International Conference ofthe Austrian Association of American Studies (AAAS)

2014
The University of Graz, Graz, Austria http://geschichte.lbg.ac.at/sites/files/geschichte/2014-11-23_Konferenz_AAAS.pdf Link https://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/aaas/2014/AAAS/PreliminaryProgram.pdf

7th Biennial International Biennial Conference on American Studies

2014
Akaki Tsereteli State University, Kutaisi, Georgia

Shakespeare 450: International Conference

2014
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia

Fulbright in Action: 36th Annual Fulbright Association Conference

2013
Washington, USA

Projects and Grants

National ScholarshipProgramme of the Slovak Republic

1.03.2024-30.05.2024
Catholic University in Ruzomberok, Ruzomberok, Slovakia

Research Grant

2021
Akaki Tseereteli State University, Kutaisi, Georgia

National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic

01.09.2021-27.11.2021
Catholic University in Ruzomberok, Ruzomberok, Slovakia

Erasmus + KA107 teaching mobility fellowship

29.11.2021-3.12.2021
Catholic University in Ruzomberok, Ruzomberok, Slovakia

Erasmus + teaching mobility fellowship

2019
The University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy

National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic

10.11.2018 - 30.03.2019
Catholic University in Ruzomberok, Ruzomberok, Slovakia

Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation Shota RustaveliNational Science Foundation Research Grant

20.01.2017 - 20.01.2020:
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia

Erasmus + teaching mobility fellowship

16/05/2016 – 20/05/2016
The University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania

Erasmus Mundus Ianus post-doctoral research fellowship

10.11.2014-30.04.2015
The University of Graz, Graz, Austria

U.S. Department of State Federal Assistance Award

2014
Akaki Tsereteli State University, Kutaisi, Georgia

U.S. Department of State Federal Assistance Award

2012
Akaki Tsereteli State University, Kutaisi, Georgia

U.S. Department of State Democracy Outreach/Alumni Grant

2012
Akaki Tsereteli State University, Kutaisi, Georgia

U.S. Department of State Democracy Outreach/Alumni Grant

2011
Akaki Tsereteli State University, Kutaisi, Georgia

Fulbright Visiting Scholar

1.11.2010 - 30.06.2011
The University of California at Santa Cruz, CA, USA

Akaki Tsereteli State University Research Grant

2010
Akaki Tsereteli State University, Kutaisi, Georgia

Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation Individual Short Term Travel Grant

2009
The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA

U.S. Department of State Faculty Development Program in American Studies

20.01.2004-20.05.2004
The University of Montana, Missoula, MT. USA

U.S. Department of State Short Term Travel Grant

19.09.2001-23.09.2001
Pulawi, Poland

Trainings and Seminars

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

2013-2014
Initiatives and Challenges of E-learning

Additional information

Supervision of PhD Dissertations 2023 – CURRENT Supervisor Nino Tsurtsumia, Urban Aesthetics in James Joyce's Ulysses, Akaki Tsereteli State University (provisional, in progress) 2022 – CURRENT Supervisor Eduard Tsikolia, The Poetics of Myth in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, Akaki Tsereteli State University (in progress, provisional) 2022 – CURRENT Co-Supervisor Nana Gagua, Sylvia Plath and the Tradition of Confessional Poetry, Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (in progress) 2022 – CURRENT Co-Supervisor Ketevan Khokhiashvili, The Reception of Ancient Greek Tragedy in Eugene O'Neill's Drama, Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (in progress) 2022 – CURRENT Co-Supervisor Sopiko Geliashvili, Associative and Symbolic Implications in Djuna Barnes’s Novels, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University 2021 – CURRENT Supervisor Tinatin Pkhaladze, Joseph Conrad and Gothic Modernism, Akaki Tsereteli State University (in progress) 2019 – CURRENT Supervisor Bartia, Nanuli. Urban Aesthetics in American Modernist Novel. Akaki Tsereteli State University (in progress) 2020 – 2023 Supervisor Birkaia, Nino. The Musical Structure of Doctorow's Ragtime, Akaki Tsereteli State University 2019 – 2022 Supervisor Gogilava, Vardo. The Poetics of Southern Gothic in William Faulkner’s Short Stories. Akaki Tsereteli State University 2015 – 2019 Supervisor Tsereteli, Anna. Narrative Structure in Virginia Woolf's Novels (Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse). Akaki Tsereteli State University 2015 – 2019 Supervisor Iremadze, Tamari. Imagist Aesthetics and Ezra Pound's Early Poetry. Akaki Tsereteli State University 2013 – 2017 Supervisor Qvachakidze, Natia. The Poetics of Ernest Hemingway's Short Stories (Nick Adams Stories). Akaki Tsereteli State University 2013 – 2016 Co-Supervisor Gelashvili, Tamari. The Function of Allusions in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Tbilisi Iv. Javakhishvili State University 2011 – 2014 Supervisor Bakuridze, Nunu. Elements of Impressionism in Marcel Proust's Prose. Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University 2006 – 2010 Co-Supervisor Cheishvili, Tamari. E. A. Poe and Gothic Symbolism in the 20th Century American Fiction. Akaki Tsereteli State University