Direction:Comparative Literature Studies
Position:Full Professor
In 1999 Atinati Mamatsashvili obtained Master degree in Western European Languages and Literature (specialization: French) at the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Georgia). In 1999 she obtained Master I in Humanities and in 2001 Master II in Literature and Arts, both at the Université Aix-Marseille (France). In 2006 Mamatsashvili obtained her PhD degree in General and Comparative Literature at the Université Aix-Marseille (France).
Since October 2008, Atinati Mamatsashvili has held the position of associate professor and, as of 2016, full professor at the Ilia State University (Tbilisi).
In 2010-2011 she obtained Diderot Program fellowship and was invited at the Université Paris-Est Créteil/Fondation Maison de Science de l’Homme (FMSH)/Paris, France.
In 2012 (January-March) – she was invited as researcher at the Université Aix-Marseille (France).
In 2012-2014 Atinati Mamatsashvili was working as researcher at the Université de Namur (Incoming post–doc fellowship of the Académie universitaire Louvain (AUL) co–funded by the Marie Curie Actions of the European Commission).
In 2015-2017 she was invited researcher at the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Marie Skłodowska–Curie actions – The EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation) and was working on the literary writings denouncing Anti-semitism during the Second World War.
Since then, Atinati Mamatsashvili was invited researcher at the Aix-Marseille Université (2017-2018) / Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah; FMSH – Fondation Maison de Science de l’Homme, Paris, France (2019); Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium (2019 & 2020); Université Bordeaux-Montaigne, France (2020-2021); Centre national de littérature -CNL, Luxembourg (2020-2021); NIAS – Netherlands Institutes for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Amsterdam (2022-2023); Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien (2023-2024).
Featured publications
Modernism and Postmodernism: French Literature in the European Context; Theories of Literary Studies; Contemporary French Literature; History and Methods of Comparative Literature
“Project LIAGAN”, Innovation in Education, campaign for the promotion of MSC actions in the associated countries including Georgia. Tbilisi, January 17, 2017 (via skype) ¨« Literature against anti-Semitism : an overview of the research project LIAGAN/Horizon 2020 », Seminar for Doctoral students, VUB – Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, January 16, 2017 (Invited by Prof. Sepp). ¨« Deconstruction of the anti-Semitic imagination: Klee, Heartfield, Beucler, Thomas », Seminar for Doctoral students, VUB – Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, January 16, 2017 (Invited by Prof. Sepp).¨ « Raconter une vie en mots et en images – entre mémoire et témoignage. Vie ? ou Theatre ? de Charlotte Salomon », EHESS – École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, May 25, 2016 (invited by Prof. Jurgenson). ¨ “ Les écrivains français et géorgiens en France face à l’Occupation (1940-1944) ”, in the frame of Deutsch-Französischer Diskurs, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany, December 8, 2015 (Invited by Prof. Schmeling and Prof. Solte-Gresser). ¨ “ Les symbolismes: un tournant esthétique, philosophique, politique? ”, Paris-Sorbonne, France, November 19, 2015 (Invited by Prof. Autant-Mathieu). ¨ “Les représentations cinématographiques et littéraires des purges staliniennes”, EHESS, France, June 11, 2014 (Invited by Prof. Jurgenson). ¨ “Chute du mur de Berlin et les bouleversements (géo)politiques. L’écroulement de l'Union soviétique. L’exemple de la Géorgie”, Université de Namur, Belgium, November 13, 2013.