Direction:Romance Philology
Position:Assistant Professor
Marietta Chikhladze earned her BA and MA in Romance Philology at the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (1999-2002, 2003-05). She holds PhD in Modern, Comparative and Postcolonial Literatures from Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna (2009-2012) where she worked under the supervision of Professor Gabriella Elina Imposti. In the frame of short-research grants she was a researcher at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyev (2012), at the University of Warsaw (2013-2014) and at the University of Lisbon (2019, 2020). With the Erasmus + staff for teaching mobility agreement she held lectures at the University of Bologna (2018) and the University of Lisbon (2019) on “The representation of the Caucuses in the Russian Literature of the 19th Century”. Since 2016 she is an editorial board member of an academic electronic journal ArtidelloSpettacolo/ PerformingArt, University of Rome “Tor Vergata” and since 2018 an editorial board member of the Neke, The New Zealand Journal of Translation Studies, Victoria University of Wellington. Since 2015 she is Visiting Lecturer at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and the coordinator of the TSU-Camões Portuguese Language and Culture Centre.
Scientific interests / research interests
- Romance Languages and Literatures (Italy, Portugal, Spain, France);
- Russian, Ukrainian and Polish Literatures and Theatre of the 19th and 20th Centuries;
- Word and Image Interaction in the Western European Iconography of the 17th and 18th Centuries;
- Literature and the History of the Science;
- Translation Studies.
Articles in magazines
- Marietta Chikhladze, Maria do Rosário Salema de Carvalho “The Representation of Queen St. Ketevan’s Martyrdom on the 18th Century Azulejos in Graça Monastery (Lisbon) According to Portuguese Missionaries’ textual narratives”. Historical Collections, Vol. VII, Mkhedari, Tbilisi 2019, p. 270-95.
- Zaza Skhirtladze, Marietta Chikhladze “Western European Artistic Style in the Christian Orthodox Environment: Icons and Frescos Executed by Christeforo Castelli in Odishi and Guria (Western Georgia)”. The 2nd International Symposium materials: “On the Edge: Time and Space”. Tbilisi State University 2017, pp 127-64.
- “The Residences of Catholic Missionaries in 17th Century Georgia According Visual and Textual Narratives by Cristoforo De Castelli”. The Kartvelologist Journal of Georgian Studies, 26, 2017 [in Georgian and English], pp. 29-73.
- “Franca Rame: Experienced in Georgian and Ukrainian Chamber Theatres. Conversation with the Cast”. Arti Dello Spettacolo/Performing Arts “Franca Rame – One Life, A Thousand Adventures”. Introduction by Dario Fo, Number 2, 2016, pp. 93-102.
- Cristoforo Castelli in Dizionario enciclopedico dei pensatori e dei teologi di Sicilia. Dalle origini al secolo XVIII. Sciascia, Caltanissetta-Roma 2014.
An extensive list of publications
- João Reis, A Noiva do Tradutor. Translated from Portuguese into Georgian. Accademic-Press-of-Georgia, Tbilisi 2021 (forthcoming).
- Dario Fo, Manuale minimo dell’attore (prima giornata). Translated from Italian into Georgian. The Literary Magazine “Arili”, 10(252) October, 2017 [Dedicated to the 70’s Anniversary of the Italian Republic].
- Italo Svevo, La coscienza di Zeno. Translated from Italian into Georgian by Marietta Chikhladze, Ilia Gasviani. Agora, Tbilisi 2016.
- Dario Fo, Johan Padan a la descoverta de le Americhe. Translation from Italian into Georgian. Intelekti, Tbilisi 2008.
Current Courses |
Course Catalog |
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| Contemporary French Novel; Introduction to Romance Studies; Modern Spanish Literature: Magical Realism; Portuguese Literature in Georgian Translations; Postcolonial Theories and Romance Languages Literatures; Literature of Romance Countries and Its Role in Formation of European Cultural Heritage Writer and Dictatorship in Francophonic Environment of Europe; Introduction to Romance Studies; History of Spanish Literature; Literature of Romance Countries and Its Role in Formation of European Cultural Heritage |