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Gay RobinsProfessor Emerita
Education
- D.Phil., University of Oxford, 1981
Research Interests
Ancient Egyptian art; composition, style and proportion; issues of gender and sexuality.
Selected Publications
The Art of Ancient Egypt (London and Cambridge: British Museum Press and Harvard University Press, 1997)
Proportion and Style in Ancient Egyptian Art (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994)
Women in Ancient Egypt (London and Cambridge: British Museum Press and Harvard University Press, 1993)
Egyptian Painting and Relief (London: Shire Publications, 1986)
Articles on royal women of the 18th dynasty; Egyptian mathematics; artists' squared grids; proportions of the human figure in Egyptian art and in life; gender issues in Egyptian art
Selected Seminars
Images of Women in Ancient Egypt; Controlling the Cosmos: Kingship in Ancient Egypt; Ancient Egyptian Art and Hieroglyphs.