Irma Ratiani 

Irma Ratiani is a Georgian literary scholar, editor and translator. She is a Professor of Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, and Head of the Department of General and Comparative Literary Studies. She is a director of Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature. She serves as a President of the Georgian Comparative Literature Association (GCLA) and a board member of International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA).
The major field of Irma Ratiani’s scientific interest includes literary theory, general and comparative literary studies in a broad cultural context, also, revision and analysis of literary processes of Soviet and Post-Soviet period.
In 2020, by Peter Lang Publishing, was published her book – Anti-Utopian Mood, Liminality, and Literature. In 2018 the same publishing house has published her monograph – Georgian Literature and the World Literary Process.
In 2013 she was awarded the Order of Presidential Excellence of Georgia.
She has received several scientific awards in Georgia, among them: Literary Prize “Saguramo” (2019), “Grigol Kiknadze Scientific Award” (2012) etc.
She is an author of several monographs, textbooks and more than 100 scientific articles, member of numerous international professional organizations and associations.
Irma Ratiani is co-author and an editor in chief of the internationally well-known books – Identifying Cultural Intersections in the works of Shota Rustaveli da Nizami Ganjavi, Literature in Exile. Emigrants’ Fiction. 20th Century Experience. Totalitarianism and Literary Discourse. 20th Century Experience – published respectively, in 2024, 2016 and 2012 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
She is an editor in chief of an international referable scientific journal for Literary Theory and Comparative literature – Sjani (The Thoughts).