Paata Chkheidze, Professor, Ilia state University
Paata Chkheidze graduated from Ilia Chavchavadze State Institute of Foreign Languages, English department. He worked as a teacher of the English language at the village school, as head of the literary department at the Gori State Theatre, taught the English Language at The Gori State Pedagogical Institute, and as a junior researcher at The State Institute of Philosophy of Georgia. He was a member of the first Georgian Parliament and is one of the signers of The Declaration of Independence of Georgia (1991). Later, he was a member of The Parliament of Georgia of 1992-95. He was head of the department of English Language and Literature at Gori State University (1997-2006). He was the first elected mayor of the city of Gori. 2005-2006, He was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at The Catholic University of America. He is the corresponding member of the National Humanities Institute in Georgia. He has received the literary prize “Saguramo” ( 2015).
He is the author of the books: The Tradition of Ivane Machabeli(2004), For the Constitution(2011), The History of Conservatism (2011), What Does Hamlet Say to Horatio (2014), The Same Forever (2022), Tom Jones (2023)
He has translated (together with Rostom Chkheidze) the books of English and American writers (: Essays of Anglo-American Writers; Virginia Woolf, Essays; Beowulf; William Faulkner, Interviews; Kurt Vonnegut, Happy Birthday Wanda June; T. S. Eliot, Ten Essays; Virgil Nemoianu, The Short Theory of Secondary; Lord Byron, Don Juan; Joseph Conrad, The heart of Darkness; T.S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood etc.