Assistant Professor, Marjorie M. Fisher Professor of Egyptology of the Pharaonic Period
About
I work on the writing and culture of Ancient Egypt, particularly from the New Kingdom through the Greco-Roman Period. My research examines scribal culture, scribal education, the production and preservation of knowledge, and the development of the Egyptian scripts and language stages.
Research interests:
My current book project is a monograph, Writing Knowledge: Egyptian Grammar and Scholarship in the Late Period, which examines how Egyptian scribes produced and transmitted knowledge about language and writing. I am also interested in translation, scribal commentary, and metalanguage.
Other topics of research include the use and reuse of material in scribal education, the history of papyrology collections, and sexual violence in Egyptian stories.
Teaching interests:
Egyptian language and scripts (including Middle Egyptian, Late Egyptian, Demotic, Old Egyptian, hieroglyphs, and hieratic), history, and religion. Intellectual history of Egypt and the broader ancient Middle East, including science and math. The reception of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in modern popular culture from books to video games.
