Mariam Miresashvili

Mariam Miresashvili was born in 1958. In 1981 graduated from the Faculty of Philology at Ivane Jvakhishvili Tbilisi State University. During 1978-1981 she was an exchange student at the University of Tartu. In 1986 she defended her Candidate dissertation (Georgian-Estonian Literary Relations (Second Half of the XX century) and obtained the degree of the Candidate of Philology. In 1999 she had her Doctoral Dissertation (The Genre Peculiarities of the Historical Novel of the XX century) and became Doctor of Philology. She is the author of two monographs, one course-book and hundreds of scholarly articles; Mariam Miresashvili is a Professor at the Faculty of Humanities at Sokhumi State University.
Her Spheres of Interest are: Literary Theory, Issues of Theoretical and Historical Poetics, Comparative Literature.

E-mail: m.miresashvili@gmail.com