Bela Tsipuria (b.1967) graduated with honors from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Department of Philology, and earned there her PhD in Georgian Literature (1993). She also worked there as an associate professor. She was a researcher at Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature. She has been a visiting scholar at Lund University, Sweden (1994) and at Pennsylvania State University, USA (2002-2003); she was a Thesaurus Poloniae fellow at the ICC, Krakow, Poland (2011) and a Weiser Fellow at University of Michigan (2018). She was Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Georgia from 2004–08, coordinating state programs in the spheres of Higher, Vocational and General Education, and Civic Integration. She works at Ilia State University since 2008. She supervises undergraduate and graduate programs in Literary Studies and Georgian Philology. She was a member of the subject group in Literary Studies in EU Project Tuning Educational Structures in Europe (2011-2012). She has published up to 70 research papers in international and Georgian academic editions. She participates in international conferences, and organizes International Comparative Literature Conferences at the Ilia State University. She is a member of the Georgian Comparative Literature Association and of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernist Studies (EAM).