Richard B. Parkinson
Richard B. Parkinson | |
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Born | Richard Bruce Parkinson 25 May 1963 |
Nationality | British |
Spouse |
Timothy Griffiths Reid
(m. 2005) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Egyptology |
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Richard Bruce Parkinson (born 25 May 1963) is a British Egyptologist and academic. He is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford and a fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford. Until December 2013 he was a curator in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, British Museum.
Early life and education
Parkinson was born on 25 May 1963.
Academic career
Parkinson was a Teaching Fellow at the
In 1991, Parkinson became a
On 1 October 2013, Parkinson was appointed statutory Professor of Egyptology in the
From 1993 to 1998, Parkinson was
Parkinson's main area of research is the interpretation of Ancient Egyptian literature.[5] As well as the philological study of manuscripts, he works on material contexts, actors’ perspectives, literary theory and modern receptions in literature, art and film; he also works on the history of Ancient Egyptian mathematics with Christopher D. Hollings.[12] As well as academic monographs and articles, he has written popular books on Egyptology and also a short LGBT world history, dedicated to his husband.[13][14] In 2016 he gave the Oxford University annual LGBT History Month lecture on this, which was podcast: https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/great-unrecorded-history-lgbt-heritage-and-world-cultures. In 2004 he collaborated in a translation of Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit into hieroglyphs.[15]
Honours
Parkinson was awarded an honorary doctorate from the New Bulgarian University, Sofia in 2006 for his contributions to Egyptology.[5][16]
Personal life
Parkinson is openly gay.[17] He entered into a civil partnership with Timothy Griffiths Reid in 2005, and this was converted into marriage in 2014.[6]
Parkinson has type 1 diabetes and has spoken about the intense difficulties of this condition in the competitive academic environment of Oxford, and also those posed by sexuality[2][18]
Bibliography
- Books
- Parkinson, R B (1991), The Tale of the eloquent Peasant, Griffith Institute, OCLC 491658742
- Parkinson, R B (1991), Voices from ancient Egypt : an anthology of Middle Kingdom writings, British Museum,
- Parkinson, R B (1999), The Tale of Sinuhe and other ancient Egyptian poems, 1940-1640 BC, New York, OCLC 317507143
- Parkinson, R B; Diffie, Whitfield; Fischer, M; Simpson, R S (1999), Cracking codes : the Rosetta stone and decipherment, University of California Press, OCLC 42354255
- Parkinson, R B (2002), Poetry and culture in Middle Kingdom Egypt : a dark side to perfection, Athlone publications in Egyptology and ancient Near Eastern studies, Continuum, OCLC 47623966
- Parkinson, R B (2005), The Rosetta Stone, British Museum objects in focus, British Museum Press, ISBN 978-0-7141-5021-5
- Parkinson, R B (2008), The painted tomb-chapel of Nebamun : masterpieces of ancient Egyptian art in the British Museum, British Museum Press, OCLC 183148177
- Parkinson, R.B. (2009), Reading ancient egyptian poetry : among other histories, Wiley-Blackwell, OCLC 237788746
- Parkinson, R.B. (2012), The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant: A reader's commentary, Lingua Aegyptia, ISBN 978-3-943955-10-1
- Parkinson, R.B. (2012), The Ramesseum Papyri. Online Research Catalogue
- Parkinson, R.B. (2012), Four 12th Dynasty Literary Papyri (Pap. Berlin P. 3022–5): A Photographic Record, Akademie Verlag
- Parkinson, R.B. (2013), A Little gay history : desire and diversity across the world, British Museum Press, ISBN 978-0-7141-5100-7, archived from the originalon 20 December 2016, retrieved 15 September 2014
- Parkinson, R.B. (with Barbara Ewing) (2016), The Life of Sinuhe
- Parkinson, R.B. (with Barbara Ewing) (2019), Talking with the Soul: A Dialogue about Life and Death
- Parkinson, R.B. (2022), Tutankhamun: Excavating the archive, Bodleian Publishing, ISBN 978-1-851245-85-7
- Articles
- Parkinson, R B (1992), "Literary Form and the "Tale of the Eloquent Peasant"", The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 78: 163–178, OCLC 480080131
- Schofield, L; Parkinson, R B (1994), "Of Helmets and Heretics: A Possible Egyptian Representation of Mycenaean Warriors on a Papyrus from El-Amarna", The Annual of the British School at Athens, 89: 157–170, S2CID 162304174
- Parkinson, R B (1995), "'Homosexual' Desire and Middle Kingdom Literature", The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 81: 57–76, OCLC 480085518
- Parkinson, R B (1997), "A Re-Identified Fragment from the Tomb of Ibi (TT 36)", The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 83: 222–223, S2CID 192190944
- Parkinson, R B (with B. Leach) (2010), "Creating Borders: New Insights into Making the Papyrus of Ani", BMSAES, 15
- Parkinson, R B (with M. Downiing) (2016), "The Tomb of the Ramesseum Papyri in the Newberry Papers, The Griffith Institute Oxford", BMSAES, 23
- Parkinson, R B (2019), "Imaginary Histories: Ancient Egypt in the Writings of Marguerite Yourcenar and Philippe Derchain", Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur, 48: 207–40
- Parkinson, R B (2019), 'The First Gay Kiss?': An Ancient Egyptian Monument in C. Brickell (ed.), Queer Objects, Otago University Press, pp. 2–7
- Parkinson, R B (with C. D. Hollings) (2020), "Two letters from Otto Neugebauer to Thomas Eric Peet on Ancient Egyptian Mathematics", Historia Mathematica, 28 (2): 183–286, S2CID 219925708
- Parkinson, R B (2022), ""Old Things Belonging to the Nation": Forster, Antiquities and the Queer Museum", Polish Journal of English Studies, 7 (1): 54–71
- Parkinson, R B (with C. D. Hollings) (2022), "Contrasting aims and approaches in the study of ancient Egyptian mathematics in the 1920s" (PDF), Revue d'histoire des mathématiques, 28 (2): 66–98
See also
References
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- ^ a b c d "The Poetry Detective" (PDF). Oxfordshire Limited Edition. The Oxford Times. December 2014. pp. 8–13. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
- OCLC 556429902
- ^ "Richard B. Parkinson". University of Copenhagen. 2009. Archived from the original on 27 December 2013. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
- ^ a b c d e "Richard Parkinson". British Museum. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
- ^ a b c "PARKINSON, Prof. Richard Bruce". Who's Who 2016. Oxford University Press. November 2015. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
- ^ "Appointments - Humanities". University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 11 April 2016. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
- ^ "Richard Bruce Parkinson". University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 8 May 2014. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
- ^ "Inaugural lecture". University of Oxford. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
- ^ "The Queen Shrieks: The Shock of Ancient Egyptian Poetry | University of Oxford Podcasts - Audio and Video Lectures". podcasts.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
- ^ "Griffith Institute". University of Oxford. Retrieved 15 September 2013.
- ^ "Prof Richard Bruce Parkinson". Queen's College Oxford. 17 August 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
- ^ "Same-sex desire". British Museum. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
- ISBN 978-0-7141-8209-4
- ^ "Prof. Richard Parkinson". New Bulgarian University. Archived from the original on 18 November 2013. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
- ^ Parkinson, Richard B (8 March 2016). "LGBT history celebrated at Oxford". Oxford University (Interview). Retrieved 14 March 2016.
- ^ "disabilitynarratives". Retrieved 14 October 2017.
- ISSN 0001-8996.