Ekaterine Chumburidze-Shetsiruli is a philologist of French language and literature, currently teaching at the “School of European Languages”/ELE in Tbilisi, Georgia. 

  In 2020, she enrolled in a joint doctoral program at Tbilisi State University entitled “Doctorat d’Études Superieures Européennes, Les littératures de l’Europe Unie- European literature” offered by TSU and her Alma Mater, the University of Bologna, Italy. In 2021 she spent one academic year at the University of Bologna with funding from the Shota Rustaveli Scientific Foundation as Professor of modern European literature and participated in international seminars at the French Department.

  The major field of Ekaterine Chumburidze-Shetsiruli’s scientific interest includes literary theory, general and comparative literary studies in a broad cultural context, also an analysis of dystopian literature in European and Georgian literature.

In 2024, he published an article entitled The modification of human nature in dystopian literature, in Europe and Georgia in the scientific journal Online Journal of Humanities ETAGTSU E ISSN 2346-8149, (Issue IX, 2024).

   Ekaterine is currently working on her dissertation topic: “Attempts to modify human nature in twenty-first century French, English and Georgian literature,” which will award her with a double doctorate in European literature.