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Faculty Member, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
William K. and Marilyn M. Simpson Associate Professor of Egyptology
About
Colleen Manassa (B.A., Yale 2001, Ph.D. 2005) joined the faculty of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations as the Marilyn M. and William K. Simpson Assistant Professor of Egyptology in 2006, and she was promoted to Associate Professor in 2010. Her research interests include Egyptian grammar, New Kingdom literary texts, military history, funerary religion, and social history.
Her current projects include a monograph entitled Imagining the Past: Historical Fiction in New Kingdom Egypt, which will provide the first critical edition of several literary texts of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Dynasties. In addition, she is preparing several joint monographs: The Middle Nubian Cemeteries of Toshka, Results of the Pennsylvania-Yale Expedition to Nubia, 1961 (with Maria Carmela Gatto), An Introduction to Middle Egyptian Grammar (with Cara Sargent) and Inscribed Material from the Quarries of Gebel el-Asr (with John Darnell). Articles in progress also include a publication of a hieratic economic text from the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library and a diachronic grammatical study of an important particle.
In 2008, Prof. Manassa began the Mo’alla Survey Project (MSP), which is currently in its third field season. Under her direction, the MSP has surveyed an important northern extension to the Mo’alla necropolis and rediscovered the ancient city of Agny. She also was the first archaeologist to map a desert road that connected the region south of Mo’alla with other points north and south in the Nile Valley (for more information about the MSP, see http://www.yale.edu/egyptology/ae_moalla.htm).
Prof. Manassa teaches widely on the history and literature of ancient Egypt, including a joint course with Prof. Beatrice Gruendler entitled “Egyptian Literature through the Ages,” which uses genre-based comparisons to examine literature of the Nile Valley from the third millennium until the present day. In addition to surveys of Egyptian Middle Kingdom literature and historical texts, she has offered text courses entitled “Egyptian and Nubian Historical Texts” and “Late Egyptian Stories.
