Direction:Linguistics
Position:Associate Professor
Tamar Sukhishvili graduated from Tbilisi Iv. Javakhishvili State University, Department of Classics, Faculty of Philology in 1996. In 1998 she graduated from I. ChavchavadzeTbilisi State Institute of Western Languages and Cultures, Department of Simultaneous
Interpretation( the English language). In 2003-2004 she was an IKY Program Scholar at the University of Ioannina, Greece. In 2005-2006 she was a Graduate Visiting Student (OSI/FCO Chevening Scholar) at the University of Oxford, where she studied classical literature and worked on the PhD thesis. In 2010 Tamar Sukhishvili received a PhD from Ilia State University where she investigated Greek and Georgian somatic nouns denoting the idea of kinship. Before that in 1997-2005 she worked at the Institute of Classics, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (Tbilisi State University). As well as publishing papers related to her research field she publishes articles and book reviews in printed media. In 2012-2013 she was a deputy editor-in-chief of the National Geographic Georgia Magazine. The list of International trainings and conferences she has participated in includes Reuters training courses in Journalism (London), 10th International Congress of General Linguistics (Zaragoza), 13th FIEC Congress (Berlin), Interdisciplinary Conference Medicine in the Ancient Mediterranean World (Nicosia), etc. Tamar Sukhishvili started working at Ilia State University in 2010. Since 2013 she has been associate professor at the University.
Scientific interests / research interests
Linguistics, language and culture, stylistics, classics, translation
Featured Publications
Medical Knowledge on the Evidence of the Iliad, in: Medicine and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean World, ed. By Demetrios Michaelides, Oxbow Books, Oxford and Philadelphia, 2014, pp. 64-67.
On Somatic Words denoting Kinship in Georgian, Studies on Language and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe, B.16: Languages and Cultures in the Caucasus, ed. by V. S. Tomelleri, M. Topadze, A. Lukianowicz, Munchen-Berlin 2011, pp. 439-447.
Logic of Divination on the Evidence of De Divinatione by Cicero, Kadmos, Journal of Studies of Humanities, #1, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, 2009 (in Georgian with English resume), pp. 84-95.
Books (translated)
E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime (novel), translated from English to Georgian, Arete Publishing, Tbilisi 2016.
• Articles in magazines / newspapers
Articles, translations, and book reviews published in the following newspapers and magazines: “24 Hours”, “Books”, “Parnassus” (newspapers), Magazine Tskheli Shokoladi, Arili, National Geographic Georgia Magazine.
An extensive list of publications
Doctoral thesis: Somatic Nouns Denoting Kinship in Old Greek and Georgian Languages, (published on the University website: http://www.iliauni.edu.ge/files/pdf/Tamar_Sukhishvili.pdf
(in Georgian with English resume).
Artist-i: Stage Performer or Painter?, Issues of the Georgian Speech Culture, Book 17, Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Arn. Chikobava Institute of Linguistics, Tbilisi 2017.
On a Foreign Loanward Denoting Profession in Georgian, Issues of the Georgian Speech Culture, Book 16, Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Arn. Chikobava Institute of Linguistics, Tbilisi 2016, pp. 102-114.
Msjavrdebul-i or Msjavrdadebul-i (Convicted Person)?, Issues of the Georgian Speech Culture, Book 15, Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Arn. Chikobava Institute of Linguistics, Tbilisi 2015, pp. 72-84.
Blood Kin in Greek and Georgian Languages, Proceedings of X International Conference on General Linguistics (X CILG), University of Zaragoza, Spain, 18th-20th April 2012.
Language of Hand in Homeric Epic, Kadmos, Journal of Studies of Humanities, #2, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, 2010 (in Georgian with English resume), pp. 64-82.
On Somatic Microfields Denoting Kinship, Language Studies XXIII, Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, 2006 (in Georgian).
Liver Divination in Cicero’s De Divinatione, Phasis, Greek and Roman Studies, volume 9, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Institute of Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Tbilisi, 2006 (in Georgian with English resume), pp. 194-200.
Uses of Somatic Word Hand in Oath, Prayer Supplication and Revenge Fromulae in Iliad I, Phasis, Greek and Roman Studies, volume 8, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Institute of Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Tbilisi, 2006 (in English), pp. 119-123.
Some Aspects of the Ancient Greek Lexemes Depicting Extremities, Logos, the Annual of Greek and Roman Studies 3, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Institute of Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Tbilisi, 2005 (in Georgian with English resume), pp. 318-321.
Liver as a Life Symbol in Ancient Greek and Georgian World Vision, Phasis, Greek and Roman Studies, volume 2-3, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Institute of Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Tbilisi, 2000 (in English).
Current Courses |
Course Catalog |
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| Latin Language II; Stylistics of Georgian Language; Latin Language 2; Linguoculturology Latin Language (ENG); Introduction to Linguistics; Latin Language I; Language and Style; Latin Language 1 |