Nina Wagenknecht, M.A.

Doctoral student

Research Interests:
Digital knowledge transfer of Egyptian and Coptic culture and language
Museum education and historical didactics with a focus on museum objects
Corpus-based linguistic studies with a focus on text structures, registers and genres

Curriculum Vitae

Since 2021: Doctoral student of Egyptology, Topic: (Re-)Konstruktion und didaktische Aufbereitung der Lübecker Aegyptiaca in collaboration with Völkerkundesammlung der Lübecker Museen, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
2013–2017: M.A. Egyptology and Coptic Studies with minor in General Linguistics, Georg-August-Universität
2010–2013: B.A. Egyptology/Coptic Studies and General Linguistics, Georg-August-Universität

Selected Publications

(submitted). Transferring Strategies from Museum Pedagogy into Online Teaching Formats about Ancient Egyptian Objects and Their Acquisition Contexts. In: Proceedings of the XIII International Congress of Egyptologists, Leiden, 7 pp.

(with Camilla Di Biase-Dyson and Michael Schultz) Healing and Medical Practice in Ancient Egypt, or: What can be done in Four Days?. In: Atanassova, D., Feder, F. & Sternberg el-Hotabi, H. (eds.). Pharaonen, Mönche und Gelehrte: Auf dem Pilgerweg durch 5000 Jahre ägyptische Geschichte über drei Kontinente. Heike Behlmer zum 65. Geburtstag. Texte und Studien zur Koptischen Bibel 4. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 197–217.
→ 2025 published in translation as: Prática médica e cura no Egito Antigo ou: o que pode ser feito em quatro dias? Romanitas – Revista de Estudos Grecolatinos 24, 183–208, translated by Victor Sancassani.
How Text Registers Influence the Readings of jT(j) ‘to take’. An Insight into the Applicability of Corpus-based Studies on Egyptian Lexemes. In: El-Aguizi, O. and Kasparian, B. (eds.). Proceedings of the XII International Congress of Egyptologists, 03-08 Nov 2019 in Cairo, 893-900.

(with Matthias Aßenmacher, Mona Dietrich, Ahmed Elmaklizi and Eva Maria Hemauer) Whitepaper: New Tools for Old Problems. Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6606451.

Selected Presentations

(Re-)Konstruktion der Lübecker Aegyptiaca – Didaktische Perspektiven auf gegenständliche Quellen in der Ägyptologie. Poster presentation, 52. Ständige Ägyptolog*innen-Konferenz (52. SÄK), Mainz.
The “corpus based“ way to Ancient Egyptian semantics: An insight into the applicability of corpus-based studies on Egyptian lexemes (case study jT(j) ‘to take‘), "New Tools for Old Problems", Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Digitale Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (IZdigital), Erlangen-Nuremberg.

How to Take Something in Ancient Egypt? An Insight into the Applicability of Corpus-based Studies on Ancient Languages, Twelfth International Congress of Egyptologists ICE XII, Cairo.

Healing and medical practice in Ancient Egypt, or: What can be done in four days?, Third International Conference on Pharmacy and Medicine in Ancient Egypt, Barcelona, with Camilla Di Biase-Dyson and Michael Schultz.

Memberships

International Association of Egyptologists (IAE)
Network for Higher Education Teaching, Hochschulforum Digitalisierung