Archives: Team Member
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Dr. Garrick V. Allen
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After completing my Ph.D. at the University of St Andrews (2015), I worked as a postdoctoral researcher on the ECM-Apk project at the Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal/Bethel, where I contributed to the production of a new Greek critical edition of the book of Revelation. From 2016 to 2020 I was Associate Professor in New Testament Studies…
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Dr. Christoph Scheepers
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I obtained my psychology degree at the University of Bochum in 1991 and my Ph.D. at the University of Freiburg in 1997. I held a two-year post-doc position at the University of Glasgow (1998-2000) before starting a C1 assistant professorship in computational linguistics at the University of Saarbruecken (2000-2003). I then held a lectureship in…
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Dr. Kelsie Rodenbiker
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I completed my Ph.D. at Durham University in 2021. I argued in my doctoral thesis that authorial attribution to significant apostolic figures and the use of exemplary figures from the Jewish scriptural past are both aspects of the ancient literary-rhetorical strategy of exemplarity, the use of a prestigious figure from the past as a model…
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Jill Unkel
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My project unites museum and academic experts in the fields of philology and experimental sciences. Each of the subprojects explores the paratextuality of a particular manuscript culture represented in the Chester Beatty collections (Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Buddhist). Within these traditions, philological researchers conduct empirical experiments to explore the links between paratexts and understanding. The project…
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Elvira Martín-Contreras
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My project studies the role and impact of paratextual elements in reading, understanding, interpreting, and learning the Hebrew Bible. The project has two main objectives: to examine the relationship between the biblical text and the Masora annotations and to investigate the interaction between the Masora and other paratextual elements when they coexist in the margins…
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Francis Watson
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My project sets out from the fact that the same text can be formatted in very different ways and it addresses the question of how these formatting differences affect the reader’s experience. This question is addressed to the text we know as “the Bible,” which originally circulated not as a complete volume but as separate…
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Stefan Schorch
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My project analyzes the impact of paratexts on the perception of Pentateuch manuscripts and their reading within the Samaritan culture. The Samaritan manuscript culture is ancient but still alive and has been preserved within the Samaritan community until today. Literary and visual artwork is an extremely common feature in these manuscripts, but its function and…
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Dorji Wangchuk
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His project investigates the phenomena of Tibetan Buddhist paratexts from historical, philological, and empirical perspectives, focusing on the Tibetan texts in the Chester Beatty collection. Some of the key research questions are what the nature and function of paratexts in the Tibetan Buddhist textual tradition are; how the phenomena of paratexts evolved and developed in the…
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Asma Helali
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Her project examines the forms, functions, and cognitive values of the paratexts in the Islamic manuscript tradition, focusing on Arabic manuscripts the Chester Beatty library and Arabic texts on variant readings of the Qur’an, like The Book of Beauty. Dr Helali suggests that the paratext is a multi-layered, mobile fragments whose display and flow on the…
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Matthew Keegan
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His project explores how Muslim scholars in the 12th and 13th centuries added paratextual elements to the texts that they read. These included notes attesting to students reading the text with a teacher, transforming a manuscript into a social document. Dr. Keegan is examining a 12th-century copy of a 10th-century work entitled The Exegesis of Rare…
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Stephen Carlson & JONATHAN ZECHER
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Our project investigates the marginal notes and commentary (“scholia”) that surround the main text in Byzantine Greek manuscripts. Rather like modern footnotes, scholia are meant to clarify difficulties, expand meanings, and invite reflection on texts. But the aesthetics do not always seem to help. Sometimes the frame commentary script is so tiny, abbreviated, and unfamiliar…
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Prof. Dr Martin Fischer
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After my undergraduate Psychology degree from RWTH Aachen/Germany, I worked in Massachusetts from 1991-1996, where I investigated eye and body movements and their effects on spatial attention to obtain a Ph.D. After three years as a postdoc at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, I moved to the University of Dundee. There, I worked for 12 years on…
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Dr. Bo Yao
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I am a cognitive neuroscientist at Lancaster University, UK. My research interests include language, embodied cognition, and consciousness. My current work focuses on neurocognitive mechanisms of inner speech and verbal hallucinations, abstract conceptual processing, discourse reading, and bilingual processing. My research incorporates diverse methods such as behavioural analysis, EEG, fMRI, eye tracking, neurostimulation, and computational…
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Sinead McCartan
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Prior to joining the Chester Beatty, I was Director of the Northern Ireland Museums Council, supporting 40 local museums across Northern Ireland and working closely with the Historic Environment Division (Department of Communities) to encourage positive and creative use of the historic environment. Between 2008 and 2017, as Head of Collections Research and Interpretation at…
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Dr. Dominic Thompson
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I’m interested in how language and emotion affect each other, as well as the ways we enhance meaning in digital communication such as with emojis and other creative features. To investigate these, I use methodologies from psychology and psycholinguistics including EDA, EMG, EEG, and eye-tracking. My current projects include the impact of voicing and dialogue…
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Jennifer Knust
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I am a scholar of religion who specializes in early Christian history and the religions of the ancient Mediterranean. Author of “To Cast the First Stone: The Transmission of a Gospel Story” (with Tommy Wasserman, Princeton 2018), “Unprotected Texts: The Bible’s Surprising Contradictions about Sex and Desire” (HarperONE 2011), and “Abandoned to Lust: Sexual Slander…
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Jennifer Sturrock
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Joining the PSU project as the ‘artist in residence’, Jennifer is a multidisciplinary artist who integrates textiles, fashion and poetry. Currently doing a PhD in ‘Theology Through Creative Practice’ at Glasgow University, she previously studied at Chelsea College of Art and London College of Fashion, before gaining a Masters in Theology & the Arts from…