Dr. des. Henrike Simon

Henrike Simon is an egyptologist, who is particulary interested in egyptian literature and methods of literary studies in Egyptology. Since April 2008 Henrike Simon has worked as coordinator of research Area C “Perception and Representation” in the Excellence Cluster TOPOI at Freie Universität Berlin. Furthermore, she is a member of the graduate group C-I-1 “The Conception of Spaces in Language”. Her current research project focuses on the presentation of the enacting and overcoming of distances in egyptian texts. Since October 2011 she coordinates the graduate program Ancient Languages and Texts (ALT) at the Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies (BerGSAS), Freie Universität Berlin.

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