Ketevan Sikharulidze (researcher) – Ketevan Sikharulidze is an associate professor of the Faculty of Humanities of TSU, the head of the Department of Folklore, and a senior researcher-collaborator of the Department of Folklore of the Institute of Georgian Literature named after Shota Rustaveli. Her scientific interests include folklore and ethnography, the relationship between folklore and literature, and culture in general. The leading place in her works is the comparative study of the folklore heritage of the peoples living in the Caucasus. Her articles and reports, published books “Caucasian Mythology” (2006) and “Georgian Mythology” in English (2018), which were translated into Turkish in 2023 and published in Istanbul, are devoted to these problems. It is a priority for her to determine the main directions of Caucasian folkloristics as a methodology of modern interdisciplinary science and to define the ways of their implementation. At the Ivane Javakhishvili University of Tbilisi, she teaches undergraduate courses: Georgian folklore, comparative mythology, Caucasian mythology, folklore and literature of the peoples of the Caucasus (in Georgian and Russian languages), typology of folk epics, folk and literary ballads; At the master’s level: Typology of folk epics, Georgian-Caucasian Folklore Relations, Amiranology, Georgian Mythology for foreign students of the Erasmus program. In 2014-2017 Sikharulidze was the head of the grant project “Georgian-Caucasian folklore relations: 19th-20th century sources and modern Narratives” funded by the Shota Rustaveli Foundation, and in 2013-2016 he was the main participant – in “Forms of transformation of artistic thought in Georgian folklore”.