Rune Nyord
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Assistant ProfessorOffice: 128 Carlos Hall Mailing Address: Art History Department |
Education
BiographyRune Nyord is Assistant Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art and Archaeology at Emory University. Before joining Emory in 2018, he held positions at the University of Copenhagen, University of Cambridge (Christ's College), and the Free University Berlin. His research focuses on conceptions and experiences of representation, ontology, and personhood in ancient Egypt, especially as evidenced in Middle Kingdom (Middle Bronze Age, early 2nd millennium BCE) funerary culture, and drawing on a combination of archaeological and textual sources. Research Interests
Selected PublicationsBooksClick here for a full list of books. Breathing Flesh: Conceptions of the Body in the Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, CNI Publications no. 37, 2009. Edited Volumes
Concepts in Middle Kingdom Funerary Culture. ed. Rune Nyord. Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2019. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, Volume: 102. Egyptology and Anthropology. Historiography, Theoretical Exchange and Conceptual Development: Proceedings of the Lady Wallis Budge Symposium held at the University of Cambridge, 25-26 July 2017. eds. Kathryn Howley and Rune Nyord. Tucson: University of Arizona, 2018. Special issue of the Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, no. 17. Open Access at: https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/jaei/issue/view/1511 Lotus and Laurel. Studies in Egyptian Language and Religion in Honour of Paul John Frandsen. eds. Rune Nyord and Kim Ryhold. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, CNI Publications no. 39, 2015. Being in Ancient Egypt. Thoughts on Agency, Materiality, and Cognition: Proceedings of the seminar held in Copenhagen, September 29-30 2006. eds. Rune Nyord and Annete Kjølby. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2009. British Archaeological Reports International Series, 2019. Recent Articles and Book Chapters
“Texts for healing and protection”, in The Oxford Handbook of Egyptology, eds. I. Shaw and E. Bloxam. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2020), pp. 1039–1052. “The Nile in the Hippopotamus: Being and becoming in faience figurines of Middle Kingdom Egypt”, in Images in the Making: Art, Process, Archaeology, eds. A.M. Jones and I.-M. Back Danielsson. Manchester: Manchester University Press (2020), pp. 19–33. “Introduction: Egyptian and Egyptological concepts”, in Concepts in Middle Kingdom Funerary Culture: Proceedings of the Lady Wallis Budge Anniversary Symposium Held at Christ’s College, Cambridge, 22 January 2016, ed. R. Nyord. Leiden & Boston: Brill (2019), pp. 1–23. “The concept of ka between Egyptian and Egyptological frameworks”, in Concepts in Middle Kingdom Funerary Culture: Proceedings of the Lady Wallis Budge Anniversary Symposium Held at Christ’s College, Cambridge, 22 January 2016, ed. R. Nyord. Leiden & Boston: Brill (2019), pp. 150–203. “The divine beard in ancient Egyptian religious texts’, in Barbe et barbus: Symbolique, rites et pratiques du port de la barbe dans le Proche-Orient ancient et modern, eds. Y. Volokhine, B. Fudge, and T. Herzog. Peter Lang: Bern and Berlin (2019), pp. 47–58. “Verden i en skål: Bemalet fajance fra det Ny Rige” [The world in a bowl: Painted faience from the New Kingdom], Papyrus: Ægyptologisk Tidsskrift 39/2 (2019), pp. 24–31. Current ProjectsRune Nyord’s current book project examines the history of the Egyptological notion of the ancient Egyptian ‘quest for eternal life’. Arguing that important details of this framework stem more from 19th-century expectations than from ancient Egyptian sources, the book explores the possibility of deriving an alternative conceptual frameworks for understanding Egyptian mortuary religion from the ancient sources themselves. |