Malkhaz Toria received his doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in history from Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University in 2009. The Ph.D. thesis dealt with the “Perception of Time and a Sense of History in Medieval Georgian Culture”. He was a lecturer at the Institute of Cultural Studies at Iv. Javakhishili Tbilisi State University (2006-2008); a research fellow at the Department of the Caucasian Ethnology, Iv. Javakhishvili Institute of History and Ethnology (2006-2010); an assistant professor at the History department of Ilia State University (2008-2014). Currently, he is an associate professor at the same department and a member of the Institute of Comparative Literature within the School of Arts and Sciences. Since 2015 he serves as a director of the Memory Studies Center in the Caucasus at the School of Arts and Sciences. Within a range of post-doctoral fellowships (DAAD, OSF, Fulbright, Rustaveli National Science Foundation, etc.) he conducted research projects at various institutions including Central European University (Budapest, Hungary) in 2009; Zentrum für Literatur-und Kulturforschung (Berlin) in 2010; New School for Social Research (NYC) in 2011 and 2016; Harriman Institute, Columbia University (NYC) in 2013; Mount Holyoke College (South Headley, Massachusetts, US ) in 2014; the Humboldt University of Berlin in 2016. The results of his research projects are reflected in relevant teaching courses and academic publications.