Margaret Geoga is Assistant Professor of Egyptology in the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. She is also a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography. She holds a PhD in Egyptology and an MA in Comparative Literature, both from Brown University. Her BA is in romance languages and literatures from Harvard University.
Margaret’s research combines Egyptology and literary studies to focus on reception in both the ancient world and later periods. Her current book project focuses on The Teaching of Amenemhat, an enigmatic and unusually popular poem depicting the murder of a king, investigating its transmission and reception by its numerous and diverse ancient readers. The monograph examines a selection of the poem’s approximately 250 surviving manuscripts, exploring how readers interpreted and reinterpreted this text over the course of 1000 years in both Egypt and Nubia. A second ongoing project investigates how ancient Egypt was imagined by Europeans in the eighteenth century CE, focusing on the once-influential novel Séthos and its fruitful afterlife.
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