My teaching is shaped by my wide range of interests. My approach is holistic and combines archaeology, (art) history, and philology.
My teaching has embraced:
- introductions to Egyptology and Archaeology,
- topic related seminars (e.g. the Old Kingdom; Deir el-Medina; obelisks in a diachronic and intercultural perspective; the history of Egyptology)
- museum collections (e.g. Egyptian collections on the U.S. East Coast),
- annual excursions (in-person or virtual) exploring, e.g. the Amarna period in different museum collections
- introductions to Old, Middle, and Late Egyptian, (abnormal) hieratic script and Coptic, and reading classes.
Student evaluations have described me as a “highly competent and knowledgeable lecturer” who teaches with “enthusiasm” and who understands how “to motivate students” and “explains contents with easily understandable examples.”
In Spring 2021, I was nominated for the “Teaching Excellence Awards” at Basel University. I always seeks to introduce students to higher-level academia at an early stage, through assistant jobs, conferences, fieldwork, traineeships, editorial work, etc.