Dr. Camilla Di Biase-Dyson

As a TOPOI Junior Research Fellow from 2009-2010, Camilla Di Biase-Dyson undertook a project entitled Back(wards) to the Future, in which she investigated two ancient Egyptian spatio-temporal terms for ‘in front of/before’ and ‘behind/after’. The focus of her enquiry was the meaning and potentially metaphorical qualities of these expressions. The link between the expression of space and time led her to work closely with the graduate group “The conception of spaces in language” (C-I-1). Now a postdoctoral fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, based at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Camilla is broadening her enquiry of spatio-temporal expressions by comparing the use of a variety of forms. Her analysis of these forms ranges from their meaning in individual texts to their use across a variety of texts throughout the pharaonic period. In this capacity Camilla happily continues her collaboration with members of the TOPOI group.
 

General Information

Group

Junior Fellow

01.04.2009 - 31.03.2010
 
 

Contact

Email

 

Projects

third-party funded project


research project


 

Activities

talk

"CSG V - Forum, Lecture: Der Orient als Vorstellung Altägyptens. Literarische Fallstudien aus dem Neuen Reich"
part of the Lecture Series CSG V - Forum „Space & Collective Identities”

workshop


 

Career

Awards

2010-2012: Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 2009-2010: Junior Research Fellowship, Excellence Cluster 264 TOPOI. 2008: Macquarie University Humanities Higher Degree Research Fund, Macquarie University International Office Travel Scholarship and Society for the Study of Early Christianity Travel Grant. 2007: Macquarie University Postgraduate Research Fund, Macquarie University Humanities Higher Degree Research Fund and Macquarie University International Office Travel Scholarship. 2004-2007: Australian Postgraduate Award. 2004: Munich Reinsurance Supplementary Award and Macquarie University International Office Travel Scholarship. 2003: University Medal for Ancient History, Macquarie Ancient History Association Honours Thesis Prize and Macquarie University Honours Scholarship. 2002: Macquarie University International Office Travel Scholarship. 2000: Macquarie University Innovation Scholarship.

 
 

Publications

 
In Topoi

[2012]A diachronic approach to the syntax and semantics of Egyptian spatio-temporal expressions with HA-t ‘front’. Implications for cognition and metaphor
Di Biase-Dyson, Camilla
2009Glossing Ancient Egyptian. Suggestions for adapting the Leipzig Glossing Rules
Di Biase-Dyson, Camilla. Kammerzell, Frank. Werning, Daniel
http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~dwernin/published/DiBiase_Kammerzell_Werning-2009-Glossing_Ancient_Egyptian.pdf
 
further Publications

Books
forthcoming Di Biase-Dyson, C. (In Preparation): The Frontiers of Characterisation. Towards a literary-linguistic approach to Late Egyptian narratives. [Probleme der Ägyptologie] Leiden. Brill. Approximately 430 pages.
Journal Arcticles
Di Biase-Dyson, C. (2008): Reconsidering Reported Speech in Late Egyptian: A Contextual Approach, Lingua Aegyptia 16, 39-63.
Published Conference Proceedings
2008 Di Biase-Dyson, C. (In Press): Two Characters in Search of an Ending: The Case of Apophis and Seqenenre. Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of Egyptologists, Rhodes, May 2008 [Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta].
2009 Di Biase-Dyson, C. (2009): Linguistic Insights into Characterisation. The Case Study of Wenamun. Proceedings of Crossroads IV, Conference of Egyptian Language Studies, Basel, March 2009 [Lingua Aegyptia 17].
2008 Di Biase-Dyson, C. (2008): Two Characters in Search of an Ending: A Linguistic Approach to an Ancient Egyptian Story. Voices Around the World: Proceedings of the 35th International Systemic Functional Congress, Sydney, July 2008, 328-333.
 
 

Curriculum Vitae

Education and Qualifications
2004-2008 PhD in Egyptology at Macquarie University, Sydney, under Associate Professor Boyo Ockinga. Dissertation: Characterisation across Frontiers: Foreigners and Egyptians in the Late Egyptian Stories from linguistic and literary perspectives.
2003 BA (Honours) in Ancient History at Macquarie University. Dissertation: Reinterpreting Amenemheb's Travels in Syria. Linguistic and Toponymic Analyses of his Autobiography.
2000-2002 Bachelor of Arts in Ancient History at Macquarie University. Study of  Egyptian language, Egyptian and Mediterranean archaeology, history, religion and art history, Ancient Greek, German and French.
Research Projects
2010-2012 Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow. Project entitled The space of time in Ancient Egyptian language. Functional, diachronic, typological and cognitive perspectives.
2009-2010 Junior Research Fellow, Excellence Cluster 264: TOPOI. The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilisations. Project entitled Back(wards) to the Future. The orientation and metaphorical significance of the Egyptian prepositions r-HA.t 'in front/before' and m-xt 'behind/after'
Teaching Experience
Summer 2011 Lecturer (together with Daniel Werning), "Übersetzung ägyptischer Sprachdenkmäler aus dem Berliner Ägyptischen Museum", Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Lecturer, "Ägyptische Literatur" as part of the course "Grundlagen der Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte Nordostafrikas", Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
2010-2011 Lecturer, "Einführung ins Hieratische", Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
2005 Tutor, "Myth in the Ancient World”, Macquarie University, Sydney.
2004-2005 Tutor, "Egyptian Archaeology: An Introduction", Macquarie University, Sydney.
Conference and Workshop Organisation
2010 Assistant to Thekla Wiebusch, Action Chair of COST Action A31 for organisation of COST A31 Final Conference “Categorizing Human Experience: Classification in Languages and Knowledge Systems”, École Normale Supérieure, Paris.
Co-organiser (with Janne Arp) of workshop and presentation series “Spaces in places, bodies and minds. A year in Review by the TOPOI Junior Research Fellows 2009-2010”, Free University Berlin.
Conference presentations
2011 The space of time in Ancient, Network Conference of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation, Georg August-Universität, Göttingen.
2010 Back(wards) to the Future.,“Spaces in places, bodies and minds. A year in Review by the TOPOI Junior Research Fellows 2009-2010”, Freie Universität Berlin.
Ancient Egyptian Spatial Prepositions. Tracking the interaction of diachrony and register, Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Humboldt University of Berlin.
2009 When is before? The role of syntax and cognitive frameworks in the semantics of Egyptian spatio-temporal prepositions, Workshop on Lexical Semantics in Ancient Egyptian, University of Liège.
March 2009: Linguistic insights into characterisation: The case study of Wenamun, Crossroads IV: Conference of Egyptian Language Studies, University of Basel.
2008 Two Characters in Search of an Ending: A Linguistic Approach to an Ancient Egyptian Story, 35th International Systemic Functional Congress, Macquarie University, Sydney.
2007 He said, she said': A reconsideration of indirect speech in Late Egyptian, Macquarie University Language Colloquium, Sydney.
The 'Doomed Prince' meets his 'Other': Foreigners in Ramesside narrative from literary and linguistic perspectives, Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt, Toledo, Ohio.