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Personal profile
Biography
I have BA(Honours) 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). 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 word meaning in the Ancient Egyptian language, manuscript studies and object studies, as well as studies of ancient medicine 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 and have taught units on 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 projects with and for students, including digital corpus analysis, 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
Visiting Scholar, Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics
1 Aug 2024 → 27 Oct 2024
Visiting Scholar, Freie Universität Berlin
4 Jul 2024 → 31 Jul 2024
Visiting Scholar, Freie Universität Berlin
1 Dec 2022 → 23 Dec 2022
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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Interdisciplinary Examination of Egyptian Stelae
Pitkin, M., Guerry, E. & Di Biase-Dyson, C.
1/08/23 → …
Project: Research
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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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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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Ancient Egyptian terms for "mummy"
Jenkins, M. & Di Biase-Dyson, C., 27 Sept 2024Research output: Non-traditional research output › Data set/Database
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Introduction: Egyptology in Dialogue
Di Biase-Dyson, C., Nyord, R., Olabarria, L. & Skumsnes, R., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Interdisciplinary Egyptology. 19 p., 1.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Prática médica e cura no Egito Antigo ou: o que pode ser feito em quatro dias?
Di Biase-Dyson, C., Schultz, M., Wagenknecht, N. & Sancassani, V. (Translator), 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Romanitas. Medicine and Nourishment in AntiquityTranslated title of the contribution :Healing and medical practice in Ancient Egypt, or: What can be done in four days? Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The ‘fragmented body’ theory in Egyptology: an ontological framework with a shadow side
Di Biase-Dyson, C., 2024, (Accepted/In press) 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
Open AccessFile36 Downloads (Pure)
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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Expert tour of Ramses Exhibition for Pullman Hotel and Clients
Camilla Di Biase-Dyson (Speaker)
8 May 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation
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Lingua Aegyptia (Journal)
Camilla Di Biase-Dyson (Reviewer)
13 May 2024Activity: Peer-review and editorial of research outputs › Publication Peer-review
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Annotating figurative language
Camilla Di Biase-Dyson (Speaker)
16 Jul 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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"Rot" und "Wut" als assoziierte Ideen im alten Ägypten ["Red" and "anger" as associated ideas in ancient Egypt]
Camilla Di Biase-Dyson (Speaker)
16 Jul 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Thinking about thinking in ancient Egypt (with a focus on visual appraisal)
Camilla Di Biase-Dyson (Speaker)
8 Oct 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Press/Media
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The incredible saga of the world’s first peace treaty — it comes from the Middle East
19/06/24
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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A 4,000-year-old ancient Egyptian skull may show signs of cancer treatment
29/05/24
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Interview about cancer in Ancient Egypt on ABC News Radio with Sarah Morice
29/05/24
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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What is so 'great' about Ramses the Great?
15/05/24
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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Secrets of the World’s First Peace Treaty
8/05/24
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities