Direction:Philology
Position:Full Professor
Levan Tsagareli studied German Philology at Ivane Javakhishvili State University of Tbilisi (TSU, 1998-2004) as well as Comparative Literature and Scandinavian Studies at the Universities of Hamburg (2001), Vienna (2002, 2009) and Stockholm (2005). He participated in Internationale Schillertage (Weimar, 1999), Summer School at Innsbruck University (2000), Summer School in Literature (Marbach a.N., 2003), Education Program of Open World Leadership Center (Chicago, 2010) and Summer Academy of Robert Bosch Foundation (Stuttgart, 2014). In 2006-2009 Levan Tsagareli worked as Assistant Professor and manager of studies at the Faculty of Humanities of TSU. He did his PhD about Arno Schmidt’s Late Prose as Metafiction (2008). Since 2009 Levan Tsagareli works at Ilia State University (ISU). In 2010-2011 he was dean of College of Arts and Sciences at ISU. He made short-term research visits at the Universities of Saarbrücken (2008) and Düsseldorf (2010, 2013, 2014, 2016), Humboldt University in Berlin (2014), University of Vienna (2009, 2015) and Universität Freiburg (2016). Levan Tsagareli is a jury member of ISU Award for Literature (The Best Novel of the Year) and a committee member at Catholic Academic Exchange Service (KAAD). Within the scope of Go East program of German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) he organized the annual summer school Fascination Caucasus for German students (2013-2014). Since 2016 Levan Tsagareli conducts research within the grant project Georgian Cultural Heritage in Germany financed by the Shota Rustaveli National Scientific Foundation. He facilitates regularly the Student’s Book Club meetings at ISU.
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Introduction to Applied German Studies; German Language Literature from Modernism to Postmodernism; Occidental Literature since Middle Ages; Theories of Literary Studies; Trauma in Literature and Culture: Theoretical Positions and Analytical Approaches; From Dialogicity towards Intermediality: Core Principles of Comparative Study of Literature Introduction to Cultural Studies; Bachelor’s Thesis (Literary Studies); Fantastic Fiction; The Theory of Narrative; Literature and Culture of the German-Speaking World in the 20th Century; Sociology of Literature: Production, Distribution, Reception |
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