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Distant Impressions

The Senses in the Ancient Near East

edited by Ainsley Hawthorn & Anne-Caroline Rendu Loisel

Publisher
Penn State University Press
Initial publish date
Jun 2019
Category
General, Iraq, Cultural
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781575069678
    Publish Date
    Jun 2019
    List Price
    $138.95

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Ainsley Hawthorn, Ph.D., (she/her) is a cultural historian, author, and multidisciplinary artist. Raised in Steady Brook, NL, and now based in St. John’s, she earned her doctorate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University. Her expertise includes sensory studies, Mesopotamian literature and religion, Middle Eastern dance, and the history of language. Hawthorn is a past fellow of Distant Worlds (Munich) and the Advanced Seminar in the Humanities (Venice), and she has been invited to lecture on her research at universities in Germany, Austria, Italy, Canada, and the United States. Hawthorn is passionate about using her academic knowledge to bring new ideas about culture, history, and religion to a general audience. As a public scholar, she blogs for Psychology Today, writes for CBC, and has contributed to various other publications, including The Globe and Mail, the National Post, and the Newfoundland Quarterly. She is currently completing her first solo-authored non-fiction book, The Other Five Senses.

 

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Anne-Caroline Rendu Loisel is Lecturer (maître de conférences) in Assyriology at the University of Strasbourg.

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