Direction:Georgian Philology and Literary Studies
Position:Assistant Professor
Tsira Kilanava (12.02.1983. Sokhumi) successfully earned BA and MA in Philology at Ivane Javakhishvili State University in 2004-2006. She was awarded with a degree of Doctor at the faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies at Ilia State University in 2012. She defended the doctoral thesis with the topic of – The Models of Marking of Georgia and Russian Empire and Georgian National Self-Identification in Georgian Literature of the End of 18th Century and of the 19th Century. She worked as a Georgian Language and Literature trainer at the National Center for Teacher Professional Development of the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia and as an invited teacher at (BA; MA) Ilia State University in 2013-2019. Tsira Kilanava has a husband and two children.
Scientific interests / research interests
Imagological and Identity Studies, Memory in Literature.
An extensive list of publications
The Ideologization of Spatial lexical units in Georgian literature: The religious and national context of “the Northern Country”. KADMOS – A journal of the Humanities (editor – Z. Kiknadze); Ilia State University. Tbilisi.
2013 – “Georgian national discourse, colonial reality and the poetical works of Ilia Chavchavadze”. Comparative literature N 1 (editor – Bela Tsipuria and Atinat Mamatsashvili – Kobakhidze). Ilia State University. Tbilisi. 10/2018;
The parable of the country and Georgia: and two allegoric paintings of Bagrationi dynasty. KADMOS – A journal of the Humanities (editor – Z. Kiknadze); Ilia State University. Tbilisi. 2/2010.
The sea semantic in “Davitiani”. Semiotics; Scientific Journal (editor – Tsira Barbakadze) Semiotic research centre , Tbilisi 8/2010;
Linguistic experiments in Georgian mass-culture. Semiotics; Scientific Journal (editor – Tsira Barbakadze) Semiotic research centre , Tbilisi 7/2010;
A book about the history and poetics; Tsakhnagi (Facet); Annual Philological studies ( editor – M. Ghaghanidze) Tbilisi, Heritage, 2/2010;
The city where the human could not be found (the analysis of ne example of the modern Georgian urban poetry). Semiotics; Scientific Journal (editor – Tsira Barbakadze). Semiotic research centre , Tbilisi 6/2009
For the name of Otaraant Qvrivi (The widow of Otarashvili) – Scientific journal of Gelati Academy (editor M. Todua) Tbilisi 6/2005
Current Courses |
Course Catalog |
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| Georgian-Russian Political Relations and 19th Century Georgian Literature; The Models of Space in Georgian Literature The Knight in the Panther’s Skin in the Context of Thought in Rustaveli and Its Subsequent Epochs; Memory in Literature: Wars in Modern Georgian Fiction; Georgian Modernist Novel |