The University of Georgia

Merab Ghaghanidze
Professor
Chief Researcher
Doctor

Education

Tbilisi State University - Phiilology - Master - 1977-01-09 - 1982-05-04

Tbilisi State University - Philology - Master - 1977-01-09 - 1982-06-30

Publications

Church Publicist Essays by Korneli Kekelidze - 2020

Vladimir Beneshevich – a Commissioner of Russian Provisional Government in Tbilisi - 2020

Playwrighter's Historical Play and Historian's Ideological Interpretation: Niko Berdzenishvili's Review of “Kakhaberi's Sword" by Polikarpe Kakabadze - 2020

Literature, Culture, Religion, 1 - 2021

Literature, Culture, Religion, 2/1 - 2021

Literature, Culture, Religion, 2/2 - 2021

The Catholic Church - 2021

Some Remarks on Poblication of Essay by Dimitri Tumanishvili - 2021

“The Machine Stops” by Edward Morgan Forster: The Dystopian World of Total Isolation - 2021

The Catatopy by Anthony Burges among the British Distopies - 2021

In the Heart of Europe on the Verge of Centuries: 100 Essays on Culture, Religion and Civil Life - 2022

Platon Ioseliani - the Resaarcher, the Teacher, the Office Worker - 2022

"Ottoman Georgia": Conseption of National Unity - 2022

Foreword - 2022

The First Comprehensive Biography of Ilia Chavchavadze - 2022

"The Wrong Man": Alfred Hitchcock Between Justice and Miracle - 2022

Mikel Tamarashvili on Relationship between Nationality and Religiosity - 2022

The Pope of Rome – a Desirable Celebrant of the Mass for King Davit – in the Prologue of the Poem “The Man in the Panther’s Skin” - 2022

“The Machine Stops” by Edward Morgan Forster: A Human in Dystopian Isolation - 2022

Vladimir Beneshevich and the Provisional Administration of the Georgian Church - 2022

The Views on the Unity of the Georgian Lands in the Georgian Historical Thought - 2022

Archpriest Pkhakadze – the Disciple of the Grand Inquisitor: Apocalypce, Power and Religion in the Short Story “The Drought” by Aleksandre Kutateli - 2022

Leon Trotsky Between Literature and Revolution - 2023

Courses

The great Books-LITR1212 ( 2022/2023; 2023/2024; )

History of the Religion-HIST4343 ( 2021/2022; )

Schedule

The great Books-LITR1212

He received and deepened his philological, philosophical and theological education in Tbilisi, Prague and Rome. He is a doctor of philology (Georgia, Czech Republic) and philosophy (Italy); he received a special diploma in spiritual theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. Since 1984 he teaches at various universities in Georgia and Europe. He was a professor at Ilia State University (2006-2011) and Free University of Tbilisi (2011-2021). From 2021- professor of University of Georgia. He is the author of more than 200 articles and 14 books, and the editor of 40 books on literature, culture and religion. He is the editor of the annuals: “Tsakhnagi/Facet: Annual of Philological Studies” and “Catholic Heritage in Georgia”. The field of his expertise are: history of Georgian literature, history of European literature, theory of literature, Georgian historiography, history of Church, cultural studies, religious studies, intellectual history, philosophy, theology.