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职称:Associate Professor of Egyptology
所属学校:University of California-Los Angeles
所属院系:humanities
所属专业:Religion/Religious Studies
联系方式:310.206.1396 (phone
Since the fall of 2003 I have been teaching undergraduate classes on Egyptian religion and literature, and training graduate students in Egyptian philology at UCLA. I was trained myself in Egyptology and Comparative Literature at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, and the Julius-Maximilians University in Würzburg, Germany. I wrote my dissertation on two magic formularies written in Egyptian Demotic and Greek, that are dated by paleography to the turn of the second to the third century of the Common Era. I was fascinated by the question of what may have motivated the scribes to compose such complex, bilingual documents, and which audience might have appreciated such intricate play with language and writing. This led me into the fascinating world of the Egyptian temple scriptorium, where ritual texts, magic formularies, and literary texts were composed and copied. It also introduced me to the intercultural and innovative milieu of Greco-Egyptian religion, magic, and literature, a phenomenon that spread from Egypt all over the Mediterranean in the Hellenistic and Roman Age. Together with my colleague Willeke Wendrich, I am in charge of the development of the UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology.
My teaching starts from the assumption that any research on ancient Egyptian texts has to be grounded in a solid understanding of the Egyptian language and requires mastery of the philological tools that are currently at our disposal. As a faculty member in one of the very few Egyptology programs in the United States, I teach all phases of the Egyptian language and all writing systems that were once used to transcribe Egyptian. In my classes I stress issues of continuity and change in an attempt to make students aware of the connections between different sources, periods, and language phases. I am also an adamant advocate of studying all periods of Egyptian history and of discussing all source materials irrespective of their date and origin. I do not subscribe to the popular view that the culture of pharaonic Egypt ended with the demise of the New Kingdom. I therefore require of my students an equal interest in the peripheral regions and periods as in the classical periods and traditional capitals. I offer three lecture courses to both undergraduate and graduate students: an introduction to Egyptian religion, a survey of Egyptian literature in translation, and a comparative overview of magical traditions in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, Greece, and Rome. My language program includes courses in Early and Old Egyptian, Middle and Classical Egyptian, Late Egyptian, Demotic, and Coptic. To complete the Egyptian philology program I also offer training in hieratic and Ptolemaic hieroglyphic writing. The introductory classes in Middle Egyptian and Coptic are open to both undergraduate and graduate students; all other language courses are restricted to graduate students only. For course descriptions, please follow this link.
