Dr. Kathryn E. Piquette

Dahlem Research School, Freie Universität Berlin

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Kathryn E. Piquette was a Senior Fellow in 2011 within the research group Space & Collective Identities (E-CSG-V), working with Dr Cornelia Kleinitz on this theme from the perspective of scribal/artistic space. The title of her Topoi project is: Graphical Space and the Construction of Past Identities. This project explores script and image from the perspective of the material object — the physical space which precedes yet also informs textual expression and meaning. Focussing on early Egyptian evidence (3200–2700 BCE), study is directed to the material and technical features of compositional spaces in order to address questions of individual and collective scribal identity.

Currently she pursues “A Comparative Study of Scribal and Artistic Spaces in Early Egypt and the Ancient Near East: Integrating micro- and macro-scale analyses” as a COFOUND Fellow at the Dahlem Research School. A description of her project can be found here.
 

General Information

Group

Senior Fellow

01.03.2011 - 30.04.2011
 

Research Fields

 

Contact

Organisation / Department

Freie Universität Berlin
Topoi Building Dahlem

Address

Hittorfstraße 18
14195 Berlin
Deutschland

Email

Phone

+49.30.838-57450
 

Activities

talk


talk

"Exploring the Significance of Colour and Technique in Early Egyptian Writing and Art"

 

Publications

  Articles in Academic Journals
2011 Earl, G., Basford, P. J., Bischoff, A. S., Bowman, A., Crowther, C., Hodgson, M., Martinez, K., Isaksen, L., Pagi, H., Piquette, K. E. and Kotoula, E. 2011. Reflectance Transformation Imaging Systems for Ancient Documentary Artefacts. In Electronic Visualisation and the Arts, July, London. Available online.
2010 Piquette, K. E. 2010. A Contextual Approach to a First Dynasty Inscribed Label Fragment from the Tomb Complex of Qa’a. Zeitschrift für ägyptische sprache und altertumskunde 137: 54–65. Available online.
  Taylor, K., Dobson, T., Piquette, K. E., Warwick, C., and INKE-team. 2010. Humanists’ Use of Digital Technology for Teaching and Research. Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI) 2010.
  Chapters in Edited Volumes
2008 Piquette, K. E. 2008. Re-materialising Script and Image. In Gashe, V. and Finch, J. (eds),Current Research in Egyptology IX: Proceedings of the ninth annual symposium, which took place at the KHN Centre for Biomedical Egyptology, University of Manchester, January 2008: 89–107. Bolton: Rutherford Press Limited.
2002 Piquette, K. E. Representing the Human Body on Late Predynastic and Early Dynastic Labels. In S. Hendrickx, S., Friedman, R. F., Ciałowicz, K. M., and Chłodnicki, M. (eds),Egypt at Its Origins: Studies in Memory of Barbara Adams: Proceedings of the Conference on the Origin of the State: Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt, Krakow, 28th August–1st September 2002, 923–947 (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 138). Leuven: Peeters.
  Edited Volumes
2011 Hagen, F., Johnston, J. J., Monkhouse, W., Piquette, K. E., Tait, J. and Worthington, M. (eds) 2011. Narratives of Egypt and the Ancient Near East: Literary and linguistic approaches (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 189). Leuven: Peeters.
2005 Piquette, K. E. and Love, S. (eds). 2005. Current Research in Egyptology: Proceedings of the fourth annual symposium, which took place at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 18–19 January 2003. Oxford: Oxbow Books.

 For a full list of publications see Kathryn Piquette's COFOUND Fellow page.

 
 

Curriculum Vitae

Kathryn Piquette earned a double BA in Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her MA and PhD (“Writing, ‘Art’ and Society: A Contextual Archaeology of the Inscribed Labels Late Predynastic-Early Dynastic Egypt”) in Egyptology from the University College London (UCL) Institute of Archaeology, where she is also an Honorary Research Associate. Kathryn Piquette is a Research Associate at the University of Oxford on the project "Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) Systems for Ancient Documentary Artefacts”, an AHRC-funded collaboration with the University of Southampton. Her research centres on the study of script and image from a phenomenological perspective. With the aid of RTI (CSAD Newsletter No. 14), she is exploring ancient Egyptian script and image and the ways in which materials, techniques, and associated material practices inform both linguistic and non-linguistic meanings. Kathryn Piquette has also been conducting research on modern analogue and digital reader/writer experience as a Research Associate for the Canadian SSHRC funded Implementing New Knowledge Environments project at the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, and is bringing these more recent perspectives to bear on questions of ancient reader/writer experience and practice.

Further Activities

Participant: 18 March 2011, Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities 
Work group: 23 March 2011 (meets montly), Decoding Digital Humanities, co-organiser Keynote
Lecture: 25 March 2011, „Reflectance Transformation Imaging: New ways of seeing and thinking about ancient Egyptian material culture", Current Research in Egyptology XII annual colloquium, University Durham