Jay Jackie, Ph.D.

Professor

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Chicago
  • M.A., University of Chicago
  • B.A., University of Toronto

Research & Academic Interests

  • Ancient Egyptian language & literature
  • Women in the ancient world

Publications

  • Jacqueline E. Jay, Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales, Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 81 (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2016)
  • Brian P. Muhs, Foy D. Scalf, Jacqueline E. Jay, The Archive of Thotsutmis, Son of Panouphis. Early Ptolemaic Ostraca from Deir el Bahari (O. Edgerton), Oriental Institute Publications 146 (Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2021)
  • “Five Ptolemaic Demotic “Marriage” Contracts (P. Tebt. Frag. 15161, 15162, 402, 411+412, P.Tebt. 3.982 Descr.),” BASP 60 (2023), 31-55.
  • “Who Tells the Story? Objective Narration versus Subjective Discourse in Egyptian Narrative Literature,” in His Good Name: Essays on Identity and Self-Presentation in Ancient Egypt in Honor of Ronald J. Leprohon, Christina Geisen, et. al., eds. (Atlanta, Georgia: Lockwood Press, 2021), 83-92.
  • “Orality and literacy in ancient Egypt,” in The Oxford Handbook of Egyptology, Ian Shaw and Elizabeth Bloxam, eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), 959-970.

Associations, Affiliations & Work History

  • American Research Center in Egypt
  • Egypt Exploration Society
  • Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities

Awards & Accolades

  • Winner of CLASS Dean’s Distinguished Service Award, 2022-2023
  • Winner of the EKU Faculty Leadership Award, 2022-2023
  • Winner of CLASS Dean’s Outstanding Teaching & Mentoring Award, 2020-2021