Henrike Simon

Ägyptologisches Seminar (FU)

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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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+49 30 838-58901
 

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Area C - Presentation of current Research Topics
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"Intrinische und extrinische Motivation zur Nachahmung fingierter Menschenbilder in ägyptischer Literatur"
part of the Conference Space in Language, Writings and Images: Communalities and Differences

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Curriculum Vitae

 Since October 2011

coordination of the graduate program Ancient Languages and Texts (ALT) at the Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies (BerGSAS), Freie Universität Berlin.

Since 07/2010 Member of the TOPOI Executive Board
2010 PhD, Überlegungen zu interdisziplinären Konzepten und Diskussionen für eine ägyptologische Textarbeit am Beispiel der Literatur der 19. und 20. Dynastie, Departement of Egyptologie and Coptology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich
  Excellent Doctoral Thesis Award 2010 of the Faculty for Cultural Studies (12), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich (1000 Euro)
Since 04/2008 Academic employee at the Excellence-Cluster 246 „TOPOI – The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilisations“
  Lecturer in Egyptology at the Department of Egyptology, Freie Universität Berlin
2006 – 2008 Doctoral stipend of the FAZIT-Foundation
2003 Master degree, Die Erzählung vom Verwunschenen Prinzen. Gattungstheoretische Untersuchungen zur Literatur des Neuen Reiches
2001 – 2002 Fellow of the Soltenborn-Foundation
1996-2003 University of Hamburg/Georg-August-University of Göttingen, M.A. in Egyptology, Classical Archaeology and Pre- and Protohistory
   
  A detailed CV and a list of publications can be found at Henrike Simon's personal website at the Freie Universität Berlin.