Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Netherlands
fellow
Atinati Mamatsashvili
2022-2023
Home institution
Ilia State University
Country of origin (home institution)
Georgia
Discipline(s)
Contemporary history
Literature
Theme(s)
Contemporary violence & Justice
Cultural Studies
Identity
Fellowship dates
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Biography
In 1999 Atinati Mamatsashvili obtained Master degree in Western European Languages and Literature (specialization: French) at the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Georgia). In 2001 she obtained Master degree in Literature and Arts and in 2006 PhD degree in General and Comparative Literature, both at the Université Aix-Marseille (France).
In 2008-2016 Atinati Mamatsashvili was associate Professor at the Ilia State University. Since 2016 she occupies the position of Professor at the same University.
In 2010-2011 she obtained Diderot Program fellowship and was invited at the Université Paris-Est Créteil/Fondation Maison de Science de l’Homme (FMSH)/Paris, France.
In 2012 (January-March) – she was invited as researcher at the Université Aix-Marseille (France).
In 2012-2014 Atinati Mamatsashvili was working as researcher at the Université de Namur (Incoming post–doc fellowship of the Académie universitaire Louvain (AUL) co–funded by the Marie Curie Actions of the European Commission).
In 2015-2017 she was invited researcher at the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Marie Skłodowska–Curie actions – The EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation) and was working on the literary writings denouncing Anti-semitism during the Second World War.
Atinati Mamatsashvili is actually invited researcher at the Aix-Marseille Université (2017-2018) / Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah.
Research Project
Writers in the face of Nazism (1933-1945). The murderous spaces of anti-Semitic politics
How the spaces of exclusion are organized in terms of their relational functioning, how they are managed within the society that accommodates or opposes them? How this functioning is mirrored in literary texts?
The project focuses on how anti-Semitism is addressed in a literary text: in what terms the figure of the Jew is portrayed in a work composed by those who, from the 1930s onwards, were alerting against the danger of National Socialist ideology. The research project attempts to elucidate the extent to which the political project of making the space “judenrein” which proceeds by exclusion, expulsion and destruction, manifests itself implicitly or explicitly in imagination. It efforts to conceptualize how anti-Semitic discourse, rooted in the policy of persecution-deportation, is taken up or rejected by writers who oppose the destructive ideological machine.
Research Interests:
Anti-Semitism in literature; spaces of exclusion; literary resistance to fascism; representations of persecution