Dr Michela Luiselli

Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology
Honorary Fellow in Egyptology

Contact details

Email
m.luiselli@bham.ac.uk
Address
Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology
University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

I am an Egyptologist with an expertise in ancient Egyptian religion and with a focus on personal religion beliefs and ritual practices of the Middle and New Kingdom. I also work on mechanism of construction of personal and social identity in Egypt.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Egyptology, University of Basel, Switzerland
  • Laurea in Lettere (BA equivalent), University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’
  • MA in Translation (SSIT, Pescara, Italy)
  • QTS (Qualified Teacher Status), King Edward’s Consortium, Birmingham

Biography

I first joined the University 麻豆精选 as Honorary Research Fellow in 2007 after completing my PhD in Egyptology at the University of Basel, Switzerland, in 2006 and while working on several post-doctoral research projects, based in Basel and funded by the Swiss National Centre for Research.聽 In 2009 I also worked in Birmingham as Research Fellow for the online catalogue of the Eton Myers Collection. My first encounter with the Ancient Near East, however, was at the University of Rome, 鈥楲a Sapienza鈥�, where I completed my undergraduate and postgraduate career. During my career, I have taken part to excavations in Egypt and I have taught Egyptology in Switzerland and at the University 麻豆精选, where I have been appointed Teaching Fellow in Egyptology in 2020.

Research

My main field of research is ancient Egyptian personal religion with a strong focus on the reconstructions of beliefs and practices of elite and non-elite members of the Egyptian society, particularly in the Middle and New Kingdom (ca. 1900-1069 BCE). I draw upon both textual and archaeological evidence which, in ancient cultures, are intertwined. Moreover, I am interested in the application of models and research methods of Religious Studies to ancient Egypt, as well as in the role of religion in the construction and display of personal and social identity in antiquity, including children and their access to religion and the shared belief system of the world around them.

My publications, two major monographs and numerous articles, are mainly centred around these research foci, but, as part of my most recent post-doctoral research project, I have also worked on the reconstruction of the origins of the cult of the Egyptian goddess Mut and her relevance for personal religion practices which has been published in form of two peer-reviewed articles.

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Luiselli, MM 2011, 脛gypten und Altes Testament , vol. 73, Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden.

Article

Luiselli, MM & Dorn, A 2016, '', Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, vol. 102, pp. 97-109.

Luiselli, MM 2015, '', Revue d'Egyptologie, vol. 66, pp. 111-129.

Luiselli, MM 2011, '', Imago Aegypti, vol. 3, pp. 72-81.

Conference contribution

Luiselli, MM 2020, . in J Stauder, E Frood & A Stauder (eds), Ancient Egyptian Biographies : Forms, Contexts, Functions. Wilbur Studies in Egyptology and Assiriology, Atlanta.

Luiselli, MM 2018, . in H Gaber (ed.), 脌 l鈥檕evre on conna卯t l鈥檃rtisan...de Pharaon! Un si猫cle de recherches fran莽aises 脿 Deir el-Medina (1917-2017). vol. 18, CENIM, pp. 207-219.

Luiselli, M 2018, . in S Kubisch & U Rummel (eds), The Ramesside Period in Egypt: Studies into Cultural and Historical Processes of the 19th and 20th Dynasties, Proceedings of the International Symposium held in Heidelberg, 5th to 7th June 2015. Studien des deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, pp. 205-216.

Luiselli, M 2017, . in C Zivie-Coche & Y Gourdon (eds), L'individu dans la religion 茅gyptienne. vol. 16, Cahiers 脡gypte Nilotique et M茅diterran茅en (CENIM) , pp. 119-135.

Luiselli, MM 2013, . in MM Luiselli, J Mohn & S Gripentrog (eds), Kult und Bild. Die bildliche Dimension des Kultes im Alten Orient,in der Antike und in der Neuzeit. vol. 1, Diskurs Religion, Ergon Verlag, Wuerzburg, pp. 13-39.

Luiselli, MM 2011, . in W Friese (ed.), Pers枚nliche Fr枚mmigkeit. Funktion und Bedeutung individueller Gotteskontakte im interdisziplin盲ren Dialog. vol. 28, Hephaistos, Berlin Lit-Verlag, pp. 37-50.

Luiselli, MM 2011, in M Bommas (ed.), Memory Culture in Ancient Societies. vol. 1, Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 10-25.

Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

Luiselli, M, Dielemann, J & Wendrich, W 2008, . in UCLA Encyclopaedia of Egyptology.

Paper

Luiselli, M 2008, '', Paper presented at Paper held at the University of Munich, Germany: Symposion on 脛gyptologie und Kulturwissenschaft, 1/01/08.

Luiselli, M 2008, '', Paper presented at Cultural Memory Seminar, 1/01/08.

Review article

Luiselli, MM 2011, '', Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, vol. 97, pp. 263-265.