User:Joey Cross

Hi everyone!

I am a college teacher and a scholar of ancient Eastern Mediterranean and Middle Eastern literature, as well as a philologist of Egyptian and Semitic languages. I am currently finishing a PhD at the [https://nelc.uchicago.edu/ University of Chicago, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations]. I have completed PhD requirements for the Egyptology as well as the Hebrew Bible program, and am writing an interdisciplinary dissertation on Demotic Egyptian and Judean novellas of the 5th-1st centuries BCE.

Currently, I am an adjunct professor in the [https://humanities.unca.edu/ University of North Carolina Asheville's Humanities Program], where I teach HUM 124 The Ancient World. I have also taught Latin there. At the University of Chicago, I taught Middle Egyptian, and still teach remotely for the [https://oi.uchicago.edu/ Oriental Institute Museum]. Some of my research experience: editing Semitic etymologies for the [https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/publications/demotic-dictionary-oriental-institute-university-chicago Chicago Demotic Dictionary], and creating a digital edition of the book of Genesis for the [https://voices.uchicago.edu/cedar/ CEDAR project] at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

I am new to Wikipedia as a contributor (August 2020). After creating private wikis for undergraduate courses for a few years and committing to contributing to Wikipedia alongside a Wikiversity project I am running, I decided to sign up. Not much to report yet, but I'm slowly wading in....

Follow me on Twitter [https://twitter.com/jjjjjjjjjjcross @jjjjjjjjjjcross].

My [https://chicago.academia.edu/JosephCross academia.edu page].

My [https://josephjcross.com/ personal website].