Ketevan Elashvili is a literary consultant at the Dimitri Janelidze Scientific-Research Institute of the Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film Georgia State University, a literary critic, symbolologist, essayist, Doctor of Philology, a senior researcher at the Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature, a visiting lecturer, and a literary editor of the annual publication of the Dimitri Janelidze Scientific-Research Institute’s collection of scientific works “ART Researches”.
She graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. She defended her dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Philological Sciences (1998).
For many years, she was an associate professor at the Department of Georgian Christian Culture and History of Verbal Literature at TSU (1999-2006); Senior Lecturer at the Department of General Philology (2001-2006); Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (2006-2009); Visiting Lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Business and Management (2009-2017); Since 2017 – Lecturer at the Faculty of Arts, Media and Management (hourly paid). Since 2009 – Teacher at the Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film Georgia State University.
Author of over fifty scholarly publications. Among them: five books (“Illustrated Encyclopedia of Symbols” in two volumes, 2006-2007; 2011-2012; co-author Z. Abzianidze; “Swords”, 2009; “Essayist Parsing”, 2014; “Alphabets”, 2015; “The Fate of the Word”, 2019. Scientific and popular science articles for various publications (local and international). The following publications have been published abroad: 1. Blue (sorrow) Aesthetics – Scolars’ Press, “Romanticism in Literature”, Printed by Books on Demand GmbH, Nordestedt, Germany, 2018, p. 143-149; 2. De-Structuring Symbols in Conditions of Totalitarianism and Profaning the Sacral Totalitarianism and Literary Discourse: 20th Century Experience CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARS PUBLISHING. 2012 p. 71-75.
One of the authors of books published under the grant project of the Shota Rustaveli National Foundation (“Georgian Romanticism, National and International Borders”, 2012; “The Era of Liberalism” in Georgian Writing”, 2015).
Awards received: Best Book of the Year – “Parnassus” Prize in the field of Georgian Literature; Illustrated Encyclopedia of Symbols, 2007 (co-author Z. Abzianidze). She leads lecture courses at the Shota Rustaveli State University of Theatre and Cinema of Georgia: “Symbol as a Cultural Phenomenon”, “Symbol in Art”, “Artistic Range of Symbols”, “History of World Literature”.