Dr Hana Navratilova is a Supernumerary Fellow of Harris Manchester College and Organising Tutor for Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; she is also a member of the Ancient World Research Cluster at the Wolfson College (see also https://awrc.web.ox.ac.uk/article/secondary-epigraphy-in-egyptian-dahshur) . She is involved in several research projects and in teaching. She works on the project Who was Who in Egyptology for the Egypt Exploration Society and is a member of the Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Hana has been involved in the study of Egyptian secondary epigraphy (graffiti) since 2003, and in fieldwork epigraphy in Egypt since 2010. Her main research interests are in New Kingdom epigraphy, history of Egyptology and use of digital humanities. She specialises also in the research of reception of Egyptian history: from emic Egyptian uses of the past to modern Egyptian revivals, and etic encounters with heritage sites.
Teaching
Hana currently teaches Egyptian history and archaeology, as well as reception studies and history of Egyptology. She has taught and examined undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students in the UK and internationally.
Current projects
Hana is working on projects ‘Dahshur graffiti’ for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, ‘Medum graffiti’ using legacy records from the Griffith Institute, University of Oxford (together with Khaled Hassan, Cairo University), and on use of biography and object biography in history of Egyptology. In 2022–2023, Hana finished the first part of the edition of secondary epigraphy from the pyramid complex of Senwosret III in Dahshur, Egypt, funded by the American Research Center in Egypt, and hosted at the HMC (see https://arce.org/project/revisiting-senwosret-iii-secondary-epigraphy-in...) . Hana’s recent publications are The Citizen of Nowhere, a biography of Egyptologist Jaroslav Černý, and Scribal Culture (with Niv Allon) in the Cambridge Elements series. Her forthcoming publications include a cultural biography of the Pyramid of Senwosret III at Dahshur (with Lea Rees, for OUP) and an edited proceedings volume Graffiti Quest (with Chloé Agar, Niv Allon, Linda Hulin, and Tim Penn, for Brill/De Gruyter). Hana is a series editor of Liverpool Monographs in Egyptology (LUP), and History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Egyptology (Brill/de Gruyter).
