Direction:Cultural Studies
Position:Associate Professor
He started his scientific career as a junior scientist in 1986 at Nika Berdzenishvili Scientific-Research Institute, Batumi. In 1988-1991 he was an aspirant(PhD student) at Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature of the Georgian Academy of Sciences and in 1991 he defended his PhD thesis in Folkloristic. In 1991-2008 he was the senior scientist of the folklore department and head of the folklore archive of the same institution. Since 2008 he is an associate professor at Ilia state University. In 2008 – 2013 he worked at Jena Friedrich Schiller University as an acting professor and then as an invited professor of Caucasiology. Since 2013 he is an a lecturer and scientific researcher at Jena Friedrich Schiller University
Scientific interests / research interests
Digital Humanities, Folklore studies, Mithology, Narratology, Minority culture, Caucasiology, Versification
Books
Dadunashvili Elguja; Korn Agnes. (2007, 2012): Weise Frauen und geheimnisvolle Zeichen: Texte zum Volksglauben Georgien. Ausgewählt, übertragen und kommentiert von Elguja Dadunashvili und Agnes Korn. Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden.
Dadunashvili, Elguja (2007): Typologie des georgischen Zaubermärchens. Schneider Verlag Hohengehren, Baltmannsweiler.
Dadunashvili, Elguja; Tabutsadze, Soso; Dolidze, Nino(1999) Culture and folklore of georgian jews. Tbilisi: Lomisi (in georgian)
Articles in magazines
Dadunashvili, Elguja (2019): Konzept für den digitalen Ausbau der typologisch-vergleichenden Märchenforschung. In: Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften. Wolfenbüttel. DOI: 10.17175/2019_005
Dadunashvili, Elguja (2017): Spätmittelalterliche Graffiti-Striche aus Swanetien (Versuch einer Interpretation), Georgica 38 (2017), S. 61-85.
Dadunashvili, Elguja; Korn, Agnes (2014): Zur Konstruktion von sozialer Kohärenz: Kirvalıq-Verwandtschaft in Georgien. Die Welt des Islams 54 (2014), S. 237-257.
Dadunashvili, Elguja (2012): Die Sage vom Selbstmord des Ingenieurs. Fabula. Journal of Folktale Studies. 52 (2011) Heft 3/4, S. 241-249.
Dadunashvili, Elguja (2011): Volksreligiöse Praktiken bei den Swanen. G2W. Ökumenisches Forum für Glauben, Religion und Gesellschaft in Ost und West. 6(2011). S. 24-26.
Current Courses |
Course Catalog |
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| Vergleichende Märchenforschung (Einsatz von künstlicher Inteligenz). 2021, MA at FSU Jena |
In 2011 at Ilia State University was conducted summer program “Study of culture and family relationships of the Dagestan ethnic groups in Georgia”. Students from Jena Friedrich-Schiller University participated in the fieldwork.
Since 2015 co-supervisor of the PhD Thesis “Musical-anthropological aspects of Svanetian cult ritual”, PhD student Nana Mzhavanadze.
In 2017 in the framework of the Erasmus –plus program conducted public lectures about digital atlas of the caucasian languages at Ilia State University.