E-mail: irakli.khvedelidze [at] tsu.ge
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Room: DM 312
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Irakli Khvedelidze
scholarship holder
Irakli Khvedelidze has been a DAAD scholarship holder at TCDH since 2024 and is working on the creation of the Georgian corpus for the European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC).
Curriculum Vitae
- Since 06/2023 Senior researcher the Shota Rustaveli Institute for Georgian Literature
- 2021 Visiting Scholar at the Technical University of Darmstadt
- 2019-2020 Visiting Scholar at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
- 2020. PhD at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
- 2018-2022 Research staff member at the Shota Rustaveli Institute for Georgian Literature
- 2005-2007 M.A. in philology at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
- 2001-2005 B.A. in philology at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
Scholarships and Awards
- 2010 "Partnerschaften mit Hochschulen in Mittel-, Ost- und Südosteuropa sowie den Länder der GUS"
- 2011 "Partnerschaften mit Hochschulen in Mittel-, Ost- und Südosteuropa sowie den Länder der GUS"
Publications
Books
- Khvedelidze, I. (2020) Narratological Aspects of the Autobiographical Genre: A Case Study of Akaki Tsereteli and Mariam Jambakur-Orbeliani (Doctoral dissertation,Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University) https://www.tsu.ge/ka/publishing-house/single/1198
Articles
- “Analyzing the Depiction of Consciousness in Modern Georgian novels through Computational Methods”. Sjani, an annual scientific journal of literary theory and comparative literature (2024) [Forthcoming]
- “The autobiographical novel”. in: literary genres. Tbilisi, Georgia.(2023)
- “Structure of episodic memory in autobiographical texts: prison narrative by Chola Lomtatidze”. in: The emergence of leftist literature in Georgia (on the border between the 19th and 20th centuries).(2022)
- “Possible Worlds Theory as a Methodological Basis for the Research of Autobiographical Discourse: The Story of My Life by Akaki Tsereteli”. Sjani, an annual scientific journal of literary theory and comparative literature (2021)https://sjani.ge/index.php/sjani/issue/view/893
- “Cyber experience as a resource for making alternative worlds based on the Georgian postmodern novel Chewing Dawns: Sugar free”. Cultural Intertexts (2020) https://b00e8ea91c.clvaw-cdnwnd.com/4fb470e8cbb34a32a0dc1701f8d7322d/200000382-0b3cf0b3d1/Cultural%20Intertexts%20X%202020%20The%20Roaring%20(20)20.pdf
- “Narrative Strategies of the Representation of Consciousness in the Modern Georgian Novel: Post-Soviet Experience(Based on Obole by Aka Morchiladze)”. Cultural Intertexts (2019). https://b00e8ea91c.clvaw-cdnwnd.com/4fb470e8cbb34a32a0dc1701f8d7322d/200000081-a163ba163e/Volume%209-2019.pdf
- “The Basics of Formation of Consciousness of the Experiencing Autobiographer: Emotion and Cognition (Based on “My Adventure” by Akaki Tsereteli)”.Spekali. (2019) https://www.spekali.tsu.ge/index.php/ge/article/viewArticle/13/223
- “Whole Mind Concept as a Methodological Basis for the Research of Autobiographical Discourse”. Litinfo. (2018) https://www.litinfo.ge/vol-12/khvedel.pdf
- “Standing on the Third Shore: Grigol Robakidze’s Biography in Emigration”. in Literature in Exile. (2016) https://www.cambridgescholars.com/resources/pdfs/978-1-4438-9710-5-sample.pdf
Conference reports
- Khvedelidze Irakli, Salome Lomouri, Khetevan Khubulava. “Quantification of humorous Georgian poetry Plotting Poetry”. PLOTTING POETRY 7: Metres of Humour. Einsiedeln, Switzerland.26-27-28 June, 2024 https://www.plottingpoetry.org/conference/2024einsiedeln/programme#pid=2
- “Event model of the autodiegetic narrative: German experience of the 18-21 centuries.” XXIII Congress of the ICLA. Tbilisi, Georgia. 24- 29 July. 2022. https://icla2022-tbilisi.ge/
- “Depiction of the Traumatic Experience in Autobiographical Discourse”. Life-Writing: Imagining the Past, Present and Future. Turku, Finland. 14–17 June 2022. https://iabaturku2020.wordpress.com/iaba-turku-2020/
- “Narratological Framework for the annotation of the factual autobiography (based on the corpus of Soviet Georgian autobiographies)” International Conference on Narrative. Virtual, May 19-23, 2021 https://www.thenarrativesociety.org/past-conferences
- Evelyn Gius, Irakli Khvedelidze, Mareike Schumacher & Inna Uglanova.“Automated Annotation of Indicators for Potential Conflicts as Step Towards Automatic Crisis Detection in Narratives”.Literature & Culture and/as Intelligent Systems University of Stuttgart.THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16th, 2021 https://www.ilw.uni-stuttgart.de/img/englische-literaturen/veranstaltungen/Lit.--Cult.-_-Int.-Systems/WorkshopAbstracts_Stuttgart.pdf
- “Depiction of the Traumatic Experience in Autobiographical Discourse.”Memory, Trauma and Recovery - International Interdisciplinary Conference - Virtual Event. 10th to 11th September 2020.
- “The Narrative Strategies of the Representation of Consciousness in Modern Georgian Novel: Post Soviet Experience: Based on "Obole"by Aka Morchiladze.” Thirty Years Since The Fall of Communism: Visual Narratives, Memory and Culture. Galați (ROM), 21-22 Nov., 2019.
- “Autobiographical Memory and Narrative Identity: The Cognitive Approach.”Beyond Identity? New Avenues for Interdisciplinary Research on Identity. Wroclaw, Poland. 8-9 November, 2019. https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Acad_Main/Wroclaw_Knowledge_Hub_Events/Beyond%20Identity
- “Narrative Strategies and the Ways of Interpreting Ilia Chavchavadze's The"Traveller's Diaries". Ilia Chavchavadze: Sacralisation/Secularisation of the Cultural Figure . Tbilisi. 27 September, 2017. https://iliauni.edu.ge/en/siaxleebi-8/gonisdziebebi-346/international-research-conference-ilia-chavchavadze-sacralisationsecularisation-of-the-cultural-figure.page
Completed projects
- Appui ciblé 2023 pour le soutien du Laboratoire de promotion de la littérature numérique 2023- 2024
- Digital analysis of autobiographical texts:on the basis of "Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit" . 01.06.-30.11., 2021
https://rustaveli.org.ge/geo/2104271249252021-tslis-konkursebis-saboloo-shedegebi/shota-rustavelis-saqartvelos-erovnuli-sametsniero-fondisa-da-germaniis-akademiuri-gatsvlis-samsakhuris-ertoblivi-Rustaveli-DAAD-is-sastipendio-programis-2021-tslis-sagranto-konkursis-shedegebi - Narrative Strategies of the embodiment of consciousness in modern Georgian novels (Grant call for theJoint Research Programme in Georgian Studies of Shota Rustaveli National ScienceFoundation of Georgia and European Universities). 01,09.2019-30.07.2020
https://rustaveli.org.ge/geo/2019-tslis-konkursebis-saboloo-shedegebi/fondisa-da-evropuli-universitetebis-saqartvelos-shemstsavleli-metsnierebebis-ertoblivi-kvleviti-programis-2019-tslis-sagranto-konkursi-shedegebi - Shaping of the Georgian Leftist Literature(19th and20th centuries) https://rustaveli.org.ge/geo/2002061238132018-tslis-konkursebis-saboloo-shedegebi/2018-tslis-fundamenturi-kvlevebisatvis-sakhelmtsifo-sametsniero-grantebis-konkursis-shedegebi 2019-2022.
Courses
master's program: Literary Studies, Textology and Publishing, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University https://www.tsu.ge/en/programs/171
Winter Semester :
- Textual scholarship (practical part) (
- Narratology
- Autobiographical narrative (optional subject)
Summer Semester:
- Textual scholarship (theoretical part)
- Creation of the digital scholarly edition