Egyptology + Comparative Literature

Talks

Talks

Conferences: Organizer

2023 – Looking Beyond the Text: Scribal Practices in Ancient Egypt, Mainz, Germany (link)

2023 – Heritage and Presence: Wolf Humanities Center Symposium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (link)

2019 – The Allure of the Ancient: Early Modern Receptions of the Ancient Near East, Providence, RI (poster and program)

2014 – Ancient Egypt/Future Tense: New Approaches to Ancient Egyptian Literature and Material Culture (lecture series), Providence, RI

conferences: panel chair

2023 – Reception of Ancient Egypt I: Questions, Methods, and Future Directions
ARCE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota

2023 – Reception of Ancient Egypt II: Encounters with Antiquity
ARCE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Conferences: Presenter

2023 – “Ancient Egyptian Reception Studies: Questions, Methods, and the Case of The Teaching of Amenemhat
13th International Congress of Egyptologists, Leiden, Netherlands

2023 – “Ancient and Modern: Integrating Ancient Egyptian Perspectives into Reception Studies”
ARCE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota

2022 – “Egyptian Classics in Nubia: Reading The Teaching of Amenemhat at the Temple of Kawa”
ASOR Annual Meeting, Boston, MA

2022 – “Doing the Dog-Walk: Literary Quotations at the Temple of Kawa”
ARCE Annual Meeting, Irvine, CA

2021 – “Terrasson’s Séthos and the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns”
Aegyptus aeterna: Narratives, topoi and traces of memory, Munich, DE/virtual

2021 – “‘Senwosret, my son!’: Transmission and Reception of ‘The Teaching of Amenemhat’ in Ramesside Deir el-Medina”
ARCE Annual Meeting, virtual

2019 – “Literature in the Necropolis: ‘The Teaching of Amenemhat’ in Sheikh Abd el-Qurna”
ARCE Annual Meeting, Alexandria, VA
First Place: Best Student Paper

2019 – “Terrasson’s Séthos: An Imagined Ancient Egypt and Its Afterlives”
The Allure of the Ancient: Early Modern Receptions of the Ancient Near East, Providence, RI

2019 – “Transmission and Reception of ‘The Teaching of Amenemhat’ in Eighteenth-Dynasty Thebes”
AOS Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL

2018 – “Mysteries of Isis: Séthos and Egyptology in the Eighteenth Century”
ARCE Annual Meeting, Tucson, AZ

2017 – “Netherworld Books and Theological Change in the Late 18th Dynasty”
CECE 8 (Eighth European Conference of Egyptologists), Lisbon, Portugal

2016 – “Innovations in Late 18th Dynasty Netherworld Books”
ARCE Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA
Finalist: Best Student Paper

2015 – “Filiation: Middle Kingdom Marker or Archaism?”
ARCE Annual Meeting, Houston, TX

Invited Talks

2023 – “Scribes, Editors, and Scholars: Interpreting Ancient Egyptian Poetry”
ARCE Tennessee, Memphis, TN

2023 – “Something is rotten in Itjtawy: The Teaching of Amenemhat, Reception, and Identity in Ancient Egypt”
Job talk delivered as finalist at California State University, Fresno (2023); the University of Chicago (2023); and Brown University (2022)

2022 – “The Afterlife of a Middle Egyptian Poem: Receptions of The Teaching of Amenemhat from Egypt to Nubia” (link)
ARCE Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

2022 – “Modern Receptions of Ancient Egypt since Champollion”
Modern Egyptian Studies Forum: Egyptology and Modern Egypt

2021 – “Between Literature and History: Reading The Teaching of Amenemhat in the New Kingdom”
Egyptology and Ancient Near East Seminar, University of Oxford

2021 – “Reading Unstable Texts: Variation, Context, and Interpretation in The Teaching of Amenemhat” (link)
ARCE New England, Boston, MA

2018 – “Ancients, Moderns, and Freemasons: The Legacy of Jean Terrasson’s Séthos” (link)
Illinois Chapter of ARCE, Chicago, IL

2016 – “Innovations in Late 18th Dynasty Netherworld Books: Funerary Religion After the Amarna Period” (link)
Egyptian Study Society, Denver, CO