Egyptology + Comparative Literature

Research

Research

Books

Under Contract Receptions of a Middle Egyptian Poem: A Textual and Material Study of The Teaching of Amenemhat, ca. 1550–500 BCE. Probleme der Ägyptologie. Leiden: Brill.

2022The Allure of the Ancient: Receptions of the Ancient Middle East, ca. 1600–1800, edited by Margaret Geoga and John Steele. Intersections 80. Leiden: Brill, 2022. (link)

Journal Articles

2023 – “Between Literature and History: Receptions of Poetry in Ancient Egypt.” Middle Eastern Literatures 26 (2023). (link)

2021 – “New Insights into Papyrus Millingen and the Reception History of The Teaching of Amenemhat.” The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 107 (2021): 225–38. (link)

2018 – “The Advent of the Book of Gates: Tomb Decoration and Theological Change in KV 57.” Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 47 (2018): 43–56. (PDF)

Book Chapters

Forthcoming – L. M. Berman and M. Geoga. “New Kingdom Hieratic Documents in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.” In New Kingdom Hieratic Collections around the World. Part 1, edited by A. Fanciulli, K. Gabler, M. Landrino, M. Müller, R. Pietri, St. Polis, N. Sojic, S. Töpfer & St. Unter. Aegyptiaca Leodiensia 13.1. Liège: Presses universitaires de Liège, 2023.

2022 – “The Teaching of Amenemhat at the Temple of Kawa.” In In the House of Heqanakht: Text and Context in Ancient Egypt. Studies in Honor of James P. Allen, edited by M. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro, Silvia Štubňová Nigrelli, and Mark Lehner. Harvard Egyptological Studies. Leiden: Brill, 2022.

2022 – “Ancient and Modern: Citational Practices and the Status of Ancient Egypt in Jean Terrasson’s Séthos.” In The Allure of the Ancient: Receptions of the Ancient Middle East, ca. 1600–1800, edited by Margaret Geoga and John Steele, 185–229. Intersections 80. Leiden: Brill, 2022.

Book Reviews

2017 – “Review: Ancient Egyptians at Play: Board Games Across Borders.” Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 15 (2017): 42–44. (PDF)

Dissertation

2020 – “Receptions of a Middle Egyptian Poem: A Textual and Material Study of The Teaching of Amenemhat in the New Kingdom”
Abstract available upon request

Master’s Thesis

2018 – “Mysteries of Isis: Jean Terrasson’s Séthos and European Fantasies of Ancient Egypt”
Abstract available upon request

Online Articles

2019 – “Behind the Hieroglyphs: Material Evidence of Ancient Egyptian Texts.” ARCE.org.
2014 – “The Unfinished: The Meaning of the Obelisk.” Artbound (KCET).

O. Michaelides 50 (LACMA M.80.203.204) with an excerpt from The Teaching of Amenemhat. ©Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

O. Michaelides 50 (LACMA M.80.203.204) with an excerpt from The Teaching of Amenemhat. ©Los Angeles County Museum of Art.