Position
Teaching Associate
Correspondence Address
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies/Harris Manchester College
Email
hana.navratilova@hmc.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests
My main research interests include New Kingdom epigraphy, history of Egyptology and use of digital humanities. I also work on reception of Egyptian history: from emic Egyptian uses of the past to modern Egyptian revivals, and etic encounters with heritage sites.
Current Projects
- Graffiti Gazetteer (see also https://digital-scholarship-oxford.github.io/GraffitiGazetteer/ and https://portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/Graffiti_Gazetteer
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American Research Center in Egypt Antiquities Endowment Fund project ‘Meidum graffiti’ with Khaled Hassan
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Secondary epigraphy in the precinct of Senwosret III, The Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (see also https://arce.org/project/revisiting-senwosret-iii-secondary-epigraphy-in-the-pyramid-complex/)
Biography
I studied Egyptology and history at the universities of Pisa, Prague and Vienna and have MA and doctorates in both subjects. I am currently a Supernumerary Fellow of Harris Manchester College, Oxford, and a member of the Ancient World Research Cluster at Wolfson College. I work on the project Who was Who in Egyptology for the Egypt Exploration Society since 2022 and am a member of the Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. I have been involved in the study of Egyptian secondary epigraphy (graffiti) since 2003, and in fieldwork epigraphy in Egypt since 2010, supported by grants and awards from the Czech Science Foundation, Anglo-Czech Educational Fund, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, IFAO, and the American Research Center in Egypt. I currently teach Egyptian history and archaeology, as well as reception studies and history of Egyptology. I have taught and examined undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students in the UK and internationally. I am a series editor of Liverpool Monographs in Egyptology (LUP - https://liverpooluniversitypress.blog/tag/liverpool-monographs-in-egyptology/ ), and History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Egyptology (Brill/de Gruyter – https://brill.com/hanese ).
Full Publications
Forthcoming publications
With Lea Rees: Life of a Pyramid (working title) (OUP)
With Chloé Agar, Niv Allon, Linda Hulin, and Tim Penn: Graffiti Quest (Brill/De Gruyter).
Recent publications
Navratilova, Hana 2024. Choice cuts for Khakaura: New Kingdom captions in the north chapel of Senwosret III, Dahshur. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 110 (1-2), 223-236. DOI: 10.1177/03075133241285913.
Navratilova, Hana 2024. Literati or demolition men? References to Thoth in New Kingdom epigraphy from the precinct of Senwosret III at Dahshur. Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 151 (2), 266-277. DOI: 10.1515/zaes-2023-0006.
Navratilova, Hana 2023. A citizen of nowhere. Jaroslav Černý, Egyptologist (1898-1970): a journey through the twentieth century. Griffith Institute Publications. Leuven; Paris; Bristol, CT: Peeters.
Allon, Niv and Hana Navratilova 2023. Scribal culture in ancient Egypt. Cambridge Elements: Elements in Ancient Egypt in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI: 10.1017/9781009070614.
Navratilova, Hana 2021. Textual and figural secondary epigraphy. In Iskander, Sameh and Ogden Goelet, The temple of Ramesses II in Abydos. Volume 3: Architectural and inscriptional features, 407-471. Atlanta, GA: Lockwood.
Recent edited volumes
Navratilova, Hana, Thomas L. Gertzen, Marleen De Meyer, Aidan Dodson, and Andrew Bednarski (eds) 2023. Addressing diversity: inclusive histories of Egyptology. Investigatio Orientis: Beiträge zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Orientalistik 9. Münster: Zaphon.
Navratilova, Hana, Thomas L. Gertzen, Aidan Dodson, and Andrew Bednarski (eds) 2019. Towards a history of Egyptology: proceedings of the Egyptological section of the 8th ESHS Conference in London, 2018. Investigatio Orientis: Beiträge zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Orientalistik 4. Münster: Zaphon.
Links
See also https://hmc.ox.ac.uk/people/hana-navratilova
