Tatia Oboladze is a young scholar holding a Doctor of Philology degree and working as a researcher at the TSU Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature and an invited professor at Tbilisi State University . She is the chief secretary and treasurer of the Georgian Comparative Literature Association (GCLA) and a member of the British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA).
Her primary fields of research include literary theory, general and comparative literary studies, and Georgian and European modernism.
Over the years, Tatia has participated in and coordinated numerous projects (10 in total), including a fundamental research project funded by the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation. This project focused on the influence of French literature on Georgian cultural space from the 17th to the early 20th centuries.
In 2021, she was awarded an SRNSF-DAAD joint research grant and conducted her research at Heidelberg University, Germany. The findings were published in her 2022 article Wine, Opium, Hashish in Georgian and European Symbolism, featured in Ars & Humanitas (indexed in SCOPUS, COBISS.si, ERIH PLUS, etc.).
Her research covers topics such as “Georgian Symbolism: Context and Influence,” “Myth of the City in French and Georgian Symbolist Aesthetics,” and “Symbolist Interpretation of the Narcissus Myth,” demonstrating her expertise in Georgian symbolism and the comparative analysis of Georgian and European symbolist texts. Additionally, she translated Le Volga et le Caucase Avec A. Dumas by Jean-Pierre Moynet from French into Georgian.
Her publications in reputable journals and her participation in esteemed conferences in Georgia, Turkey, France, and Austria highlight her scholarly achievements and active engagement with the international academic community.
Email: tatia.oboladze@tsu.ge
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tatia-oboladze-phd-00115589/\