Orly Goldwasser

Research and teaching interests:

Definition of the role of linguistic registers in New Kingdom texts
The classifier system of the Egyptian hieroglyphs and its parallelism to other classification systems in various languages of the world
The genesis of the alphabet through the Egyptian hieroglyphs
Semiotics of the Egyptian pictorial scripts
Comparative studies of classifier systems- Egyptian, Chinese, Sumerian
Socio-Linguistic issues in the grammar of Ramesside Egyptian
Hieratic and hieroglyphic inscriptions in Canaan
Canaanite-Egyptian relations during the Late Bronze Age

Göttingen University
Visiting Professor, Harvard University, Boston, 2005.
Professor de Collège de France, Paris: Invited lecture series “quatre leçons.” Paris, 2007.
Visiting Professor at Collegium de Lyon - Institute for Advanced Study c/o ENS Lettres et sciences humaines, Lyon, 2012.
Visiting Professor at the University of Mainz. Mainz, 2015.
Reviewer, School of Advanced Studies, Princeton

Co-editor of the series - Classification and Categorization in Ancient Egypt, Göttinger Orientforschoungen IV. Reihe Ägypten 38 (Harrassowitz Verlag)
Vice chair, European COST Action A31 "Stability and Adaptation of Classification Systems in Cross-Cultural Perspective" (scientific committees, conferences planning and organization, various lectures)
Representative of Israel in the International Association for Semiotic Studies

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