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Biography
A Sydneysider with a passion for Ancient Egypt since childhood, I have BA(Hons) and PhD degrees in Ancient History from Macquarie University (2000–2008). I moved to Berlin to conduct postdoctoral research in Egyptology and linguistics, first as a Fellow of the Excellence Cluster 'Topoi: The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations' (2009–2010) and then with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2010–2012). Following this, I was Junior Professor for Egyptology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen, Germany (2012–2019), then a Research Fellow at the University of Vienna (2019–2020). In April 2020 I moved back to Sydney to take up a Lectureship in Egyptology at Macquarie University.
Research interests
I am passionate about exploring how ancient texts and languages help us access ancient ways of thinking. My current research focuses on metaphor in Ancient Egyptian language, as well as ancient medicine and manuscript studies and takes in object studies and body ontologies. My approches range from linguistics and cognitive science to literary analyis and anthropology and I am committed to utilising and expanding the tools of digital corpus analysis for ancient languages. My case studies mainly focus on texts and materials from the Ramesside Period of Egyptian history, in the Late Bronze Age.
Teaching
I teach Egyptian language (Old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian and Late Egyptian) and script (hieroglyphs and hieratic), Egyptian history and culture, literature, language history, medicine, magic and religion. I have also directed digital literacy projects with and for students, teaching corpus analysis strategies, developing digital content for an Egyptian text database and annotating metaphors in Egyptian texts.
Research student supervision
I supervise topics in the following areas:
* Egyptian language and texts, including linguistic topics (lexical semantics, discourse analysis) and manuscript studies
* Cognitive approaches to ancient sources (metaphor, emotion studies, semiotics, embodied and distributed cognition)
* Egyptian literature and literary theory
* Egyptian medicine, magic and religion
* Egyptian history and historiography
Education/Academic qualification
Ancient History (Egyptology), PhD, Characterisation across Frontiers: Foreigners and Egyptians in the 'Late Egyptian Stories' from linguistic and literary perspectives, Macquarie University
1 Mar 2004 → 21 Apr 2009
Award Date: 21 Apr 2009
Ancient History, BA(Honours), Reinterpreting Amenemheb's Travels in Syria. Linguistic and Toponymic Analyses of his Autobiography, Macquarie University
3 Jan 2000 → 15 Apr 2004
Award Date: 15 Apr 2004
External positions
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Vienna
1 Dec 2019 → 14 Apr 2020
Professor Extraordinary for Egyptology, Georg-August University of Göttingen
12 Jul 2019 → 28 Apr 2020
Junior Professor for Egyptology, University of Gottingen
12 Nov 2012 → 12 Jul 2019
Postdoctoral Fellow, Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation
1 Sept 2010 → 31 Aug 2012
Junior Research Fellow, Excellence Cluster 'Topoi: The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations'
1 Apr 2009 → 31 Mar 2010
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Metaphors in Ancient Egyptian language: A genre-based, diachronic study.
1/04/13 → …
Project: Research
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Macquarie Theban Tombs Project
Ockinga, B., Sowada, K., Di Biase-Dyson, C. & Binder, S.
1/01/91 → …
Project: Research
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Interdisciplinary Examination of Egyptian Stelae
Pitkin, M., Guerry, E. & Di Biase-Dyson, C.
Project: Research
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The pedagogy of Hieroglyphic Egyptian - new approaches for a brave new (online) world
Di Biase-Dyson, C. & Binder, S.
1/12/20 → 1/12/22
Project: Research
Research Outputs
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The ‘fragmented body’ theory in Egyptology: an ontological framework with a shadow side
Di Biase-Dyson, C., 2024, (Submitted) In: Interdisciplinary Egyptology. 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Building ideas out of wood: what ancient Egyptian funerary 'models' tell us about thought and communication
Di Biase-Dyson, C., Aug 2023, In: Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 33, 3, p. 413-429 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Einblicke in den Streit zwischen Leib und Kopf – Eine Neuedition und Textanalyse von tTurin CGT 58004 (Cat. 6238)
Di Biase-Dyson, C. & Stock, J., 30 Jun 2023, In: Zeitschrift fur Agyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde. 150, 1, p. 56-73 18 p.Translated title of the contribution :Insights into The Contendings between the Body and the Head – A New Edition and a Textual Analysis of tTurin CGT 58004 (Cat. 6238) Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Eine historische und anthropologische Studie der sogenannten Gotha-Mumie aus der ehemaligen Blumenbach Sammlung in Göttingen
Nöcker, S., Grosskopf, B. & Di Biase-Dyson, C., 2023, In: Göttinger Miszellen. 267 (2022), p. 133-156 24 p.Translated title of the contribution :A historical and anthropological study of the so-called Gotha mummy from the erstwhile Blumenbach collection in Göttingen Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Healing and Medical Practice in Ancient Egypt, or: What can be done in Four Days?
Di Biase-Dyson, C., Schultz, M. & Wagenknecht, N., 2023, (Accepted/In press) Pharaonen, Mönche und Gelehrte: : Auf dem Pilgerweg durch 5000 Jahre ägyptische Geschichte über drei Kontinente. Heike Behlmer zum 65. Geburtstag. Atanassova, D., Feder, F. & Sternberg el-Hotabi, H. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 21 p. (Texte und Studien zur Koptischen Bibel; vol. 4).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Prizes
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Highly Commended Finalist - Vice-Chancellor's Learning and Teaching Student-Nominated Award
Di Biase-Dyson, Camilla (Recipient), 21 Nov 2022
Prize: Teaching award
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Activities
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Clio: Histoire, Femmes et Societes (Journal)
Camilla Di Biase-Dyson (Reviewer)
11 Nov 2023Activity: Peer-review and editorial of research outputs › Publication Peer-review
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Prague Egyptological Studies (Journal)
Camilla Di Biase-Dyson (Reviewer)
6 Nov 2023Activity: Peer-review and editorial of research outputs › Publication Peer-review
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Widmaier-Verlag (Publisher)
Camilla Di Biase-Dyson (Reviewer)
20 Jun 2023Activity: Peer-review and editorial of research outputs › Publication Peer-review
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Peacekeeping for moderns: Lessons from the Ancient Near East
Camilla Di Biase-Dyson (Speaker) & Elynn Gorris (Speaker)
21 Mar 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Metaphors in Ancient Egyptian healing texts: building blocks of scientific language
Camilla Di Biase-Dyson (Speaker)
5 Oct 2023 → 6 Oct 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Press/Media
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Decoding Ancient Languages – Modern Methods For Ancient Problems for IFL Science
18/07/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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The Heart of the Matter Podcast
Camilla Di Biase-Dyson & Madeline Jenkins
4/05/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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Out of the Blank podcast episode
23/09/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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How Do Archaeologists Crack the Code of Dead Languages?
11/09/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment