Tamar Barbakadze

Currently the SNSF postdoctoral researcher at UQAM, I was awarded my PhD in English, French and Comparative literature, Faculty of Arts, University of Lausanne, in March 2022. My research outputs draw on a range of questions including novelistic time and memory, postcolonial space and writing back to the misconceptions about Global wars to expand disciplinary canons and boundaries. I focus on both non-Western and Western literary productions in my thesis and peer-reviewed articles. I previously completed my BA in English Language and Literature and MA in European Literary Cultures at the University of Upper Alsace, France and University of Bologna, Italy. My monograph entitled ‘Catherine Colomb’s VISION OF TIME: in Dialogue with Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf’, exploring the English and French literary writings of usually marginalized writer and her dialogue with iconic authors, has appeared in Peter Lang’s 2022 editions.

EDUCATION

09.2016-03.2022
PhD in French and Comparative Literature. Faculty of Arts, the French and English departments, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

09.2013-06.2015
Master of Excellence Erasmus Mundus in European Literary Cultures, University of Bologna, Italy (2013-2014) University of Upper Alsace, France (2014-2015).

09.2009-07.2011
Postgraduate Translation Studies, Ilia State University, Department of Translation and Interpretation Studies.

09.2004-10.2008
Bachelor’s Degree in English Philology, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, English Department.

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Literature and Literary Theory, Arts and Humanities

Publications

PUBLICATIONS
1. Monograph
o Barbakadze, Tamar. Colomb’s Vision of Time: In Dialogue with Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf. Bern: Peter Lang, 2022. Open Access:
2. Peer-reviewed conference proceedings/book chapters
o Barbakadze, Tamar. “Wole Soyinka’s and Jovette Marchessault’s Transnational Transnational Literature in America: Where Do We Stand Twenty Years After Fishkin’s Transnational Turn? Tijana Przulj (ed.). To appear in a special issue of American Studies in Scandinavia. Fall, 2025. Status: Accepted.
o Barbakadze, Tamar. “Proust’s and Woolf’s Dialogue Regarding Language” in Comparing Literatures: Aspects, Method, and Orientation. Alison Boulanger, Fiona McIntosh-Varjabedan (eds.) Hannover : ibidem-Verlag, 2022, 75-88. https://t.ly/joJN
o Barbakadze, Tamar. ‘Colomb et Woolf : raconter la guerre à travers des métaphores’ in Esthétique de la guerre - Éthique de la paix. Un siècle de la littérature sur la Grande Guerre. A.-S. Donnarieix, J. Mecke, P. Schoentjes (eds.), Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2020, 163-176. DOI: 10.15122/ URL: https://t.ly/AUFF
o Barbakadze, Tamar. “The Education that Made Them: Virginia Woolf’s, Alice Rivaz’s and Doris Lessing’s perceptions of space as a gateway for women’s freedom and Apprenties Sages. Apprentissages au féminin, (eds.) A. Ballotti, I. Kuramayeva, F. Toudoire-Surlapierre, Reims: Éditions et presses universitaires de Reims - EPURE, 2018,

GRANT DETAILS

Postdoctoral research project: Decolonizing Literatures by Canadian Indigenous and West African Authors. Director: Prof. Isaac Bazié (UQAM). Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).

Doctoral thesis project: Catherine Colomb’s Vision of Time: in Dialogue with Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf. Director: Prof. Gilles Philippe (UNIL). Funded by The Swiss Government Excellence fellowship.

RESEARCH OUTPUTS (PATENTS, SOFTWARE, PUBLICATIONS, PRODUCTS)

o Barbakadze, Tamar. ‘In My Nutshell’ in Reflections on Culture in the Age of Confinement. British Comparative Literature Association – BCLA. Avril 2020. URL:
o Projet vidéo experimental sur le concept de « marges ». Auteurs du projet : Barbakadze, Tamar; Adrien Pièce; Aline Scherer. Printemps de la poésie, Lausanne, Mars 2018. URL: