CURRICULUM VITAE TYPE OF EXPERTISE: Comparative Literature Studies, Literary Studies, Georgian Studies, Education 1. Family name: Tsipuria 2. First names: Bela 3. Date of birth: 09. 12.1967 4. Nationality: Georgian 5. Education: Institution Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained: [ Date from - Date to ] Tbilisi State University, Faculty of Diploma (Master), Philologist Philology. From 1984 to 1989 Tbilisi State University, Faculty of Post graduate studies. PhD in Philology Philology. From 1990 to 1993 6. Language skills: Language Reading Speaking Writing Georgian Native Native Native Russian Fluent Fluent Fluent English Fluent Fluent Good French Intermediate Intermediate Basic 7. Membership of professional bodies: Member of the European Network for Modernism and Avant-garde Studies (EAM); Member of Georgian Comparative Literature Association (GCLA); Member of the the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) USA; Member of the 1 Compares - International Society Iberian- Slavonic Studies; Member of Literature Subject Expert Group, Tuning/HUMART Project, EU, 2010-2012. 8. Other skills: Developed presentation / teaching / writing skills. Developed computer skills. Developed communication skills, enc. communication skills with media. Developed team-work skills. Experience in creating and coordinating development projects in Literary and educational sector (pre-school, general, vocational, higher education). 9. Present position: Professor, Director, Institute of Comparative Literature, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia 10. Key qualifications: Teaching Georgian Literature, Comparative Literature; Researching Georgian Literature, Comparative Literature Training in Education and Research Policy and Planning, Education Management; Policymaking for education and science reform and development; Feasibility studies; Project management; Project evaluation Working experience with governmental and non-governmental bodies; 11. Professional experience Date: Location Company Position Description from / to Institute of Professor, . Developing and coordinating MA and PhD Comparative Director Programs in Comparative Literature. 06.2008 – Tbilisi, Literature, Ilia . Developing and teaching courses. Conducting individual and team research in the date Georgia State University field. Developing team research strategies. Coordinating team research Ministry of Deputy . Developing and coordinating state and international Education and Minister programs in pre-school, general, vocational, higher Science of education, research management, child care, civic 06.2004 - Tbilisi, integration, teaching state language and minority Georgia languages, general education computerization, 02.2008 Georgia territorial management of education system. Participating (together with the Ministry’s top management team, local and international experts) in developing of policy and strategy documents on pre-school, general, vocational, higher education reform, child care, civic integration, accreditation of general, vocational and higher educational institutions, general education computerization, development of NQF. Participating (together with the Ministry’s top management team, local and international experts) in development and promotion of new Georgian Laws on General Education (adopted in 2005), Vocational Education (adopted in 2007) and Higher Education (adopted in 2004), amendments in the Law on Research, Technology and Development (adopted in 2006). Cooperating with major international organizations in the field of education and research on representing MoES of Georgia: UNDP, UNICEF, UNESCO, EC, USAID, British Council, OSI. Participating in implementation of international programs in Georgia: Poverty Reduction Programme, Millennium Challenge Goals, European Neighborhood Policy Action Plan, Life Long Learning, Education for All. Ivane Associate . Developing and teaching courses on Georgian 02.1993 - Tbilisi, Javakhishvili Professor Literature and Comparative Literature 10.2004 Tbilisi State . Conducting research in this field. Georgia University Shota Rustaveli Researcher . Conducting research in the field of Georgian 12.1999- Tbilisi, Institute of Literature and Comparative Literature. 02.2006 Georgia Georgian Literature 2002, Tbilisi, Georgian Public Reviewer . Weekly review of new books in morning talk show 09.2002- Georgia Broadcaster Alioni 04.2010 International Thesaurus Conducting research on Polish and Georgian Kultural Centre Poloniae Cultural Experiences in Soviet Times Krakow, Fellow 06-09. Poland 2011 University of Weiser Conducting research Religious Motifs in Michigan Fellow Modernism Ann 02. 2018 Arbor, USA State Pennsylvania Visiting . Conducting research at the Department of 08.2002 – College, State University Scholar Comparative Literature 07.2003 PA USA Lund University Visiting Conducting research at the departments of Scholar Linguistics and Literature 01- Lund, 07.1994 Sweden 12. International Conferences: Date: Location Organization Position Title of the Conference and Paper Presented Ilia State Organizer, Ilia Chavchavadze: Sacralisation/Secularisation of the Tbilisi, University Presenter Cultural Figure. Conference Dedicated to the 180th 10.2017 Georgia Anniversary of Ilia Chavchavadze’s Birth. Paper: ICLA, Presenter 21st World Congress of the International Comparative Vienna, Literature Association: The Many Languages of 07.2016 University of Comparative Literature. Austria Vienna Paper: The Language of Soviet Power and the Language of Resistance of Georgian Literature EAM, Presenter European Network of Avant-garde and Modernism Studies. The Fifth EAM International Conference: 06. Rennes, University of Quest and Investigation. 2016 France Rennes 2 Paper: The Quest and the Investigation in Georgian Modernist Novels University of Presenter Les écrivains face aux persécutions, au massacre de Paris, 02. Sorbonne masse et au génocide. 2016 France Paper : Georgian Literature in Isolation, and not in Exile Galouste Presenter International Symposium: Avant-garde Migrations. Gulbekian 11. Lisbon, Foundation, Paper: Tbilisi Avant-garde: Migration from the Centre 2015 to the Periphery Portugal University of Nova Lisbon University of Presenter Commemorative Cults of Artists and Nation-Building in Amsterdam, 10. Amsterdam Europe The 2015 Netherlands Paper: Ilia Chavchavadze: Georgia's Cultural Saint and the Saint of Georgian Orthodox Church 2009- Tbilisi, Ilia State Organizer Annual International Comparative Literature 2015 Georgia University Conferences Ruhr University Presenter Russia and Georgia after the Empire. Cultural and Tbilisi, Bochum Literary Aspects. 09.2015 Georgia Paper: Hybridity in the Georgian Novel of Colonial and Postcolonial Times (in Russian). International Debate Nations and Stereotypes 25 Years After. New Borders, 06. Krakow, Cultural Center Participant New Horizons 2014 Poland Debate: Wind from the East, Wind towards the East EAM, Presenter The Fourth Bi-annual Conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde Modernism and Studies: 08. Helsinki, University of Utopia 2014 Finland Helsinki Paper: New World for New People? Socialist Revolution, Social Shift and Modernism Prague, Institute of Art Presenter Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in the Avant-Garde 11. Czech History of the and Modernism: The Impact of WWI. 2014 Republic Academy of Paper: Georgian Modernists Rethinking Nationalism: Sciences of the The Impact of WWI and the Russian Revolutions. Prague Lotman-Institut Lecturer Seminars für Slavistik/Lotman-Instituts der Ruhr- Bochum, der Ruhr- Universität 12.2014 Germany Universität Paper: Georgian Literature of the Period of Russian Empire and USSR: Resistance and Hybridity University of Presenter Literature et Totalitarisme: Ecrire pour Temoigner 05. Namur, Namur 2013 Belgium Paper: Socialist Realism from Centres to Peripheries : Doctrines and Indoctrination Université Paris- Presenter Première œuvre, dernière œuvre : écarts d’une écriture. Paris, Est Créteil 10.2012 (UPEC), Paper: Gaps of a Writing – Sovietization and the Shift France from Modernism to Socialist Realism/Realism in Georgian Literature EAM, Presenter Third Biannual Conference of the European Network for Avant-garde and Modernist Studies (EAM) Canterbury, University of “Material Meanings”. 10.2012 UK Kent Paper: The Avant-garde and the Transformations of its Social Meanings in Soviet Times University of Presenter Conversion of Russian History of the 19th and 20th Fribourg, Centuries. Fribourg, 11.2011 Switzerland Paper: Modernism, Christianity and Soviet Power in the Works and Lives of Titsian Tabidze and Boris Pasternak Université Presenter Transfers, Appropriations and Functions of Avant-garde Sorbonne in Central and Northern Europe, 1909-1989. Nouvelle – Paris III, Centre Interuniversitair Paper: Transferring Avant-Garde to Georgia / Paris, 09.2011 e d’Études Tranferring Georgia to Avant-Garde France Hongroises et Finlandaises (CIEH&CIEFi – Paris 3) & l’Institut Finlandais de Paris Ohio State Presenter University, 2011 Central Eurasian Studies Society Conference; Columbus, 04.2011 Paper: Georgian National Narrative Culture, Certainty USA, Association of Central and and/or Ambivalence Eurasian Studies Institute of Organizer, Georgian Modernism – National/Postcolonial Tbilisi, Comparative Presenter Dimensions 04.2011 Georgia Literature. Ilia State University University European Presenter High and Low of Adam Network for Paper: H2SO4: The Futurist Experience in Georgia 09.2010 Mickiewicz Avant-garde and Poznan, Modernist Studies Poland Presenter Iberian-Slavonic