Research

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• Published
  • Monographs
  • Edited Collections
  • Articles
  • Book Chapters
  • Blog Posts
  • Encyclopedia Entries
  • Reviews
  • Audiovisual Resources

Most research can be found on Knowledge Commons and indexed under ORCiD 0000-0003-1637-4261.

Forthcoming

• “Old Nubian.” In Global Christian Texts: Readings in Early Christianity from African, Middle Eastern and Asian Languages, edited by Vince Bantu and Nathan Gibson. University of California Press, forthcoming.
• “Proletgeology I: Against Georevisionism.” In A Biography of Daphne, edited by Mihnea Mircan and Helen Hughes. Spector Books, forthcoming.
• “The Old Nubian Ps.-Chrysostomus’s In quattuor animalia in the Context of Coptic, Arabic, and Ge’ez Oral and Literary Traditions.” In Textes, images et objets entre l’Égypte copte et la Corne de l’Afrique chrétienne au Moyen Âge. Actes du séminaire HornEast (2017-2023), edited by Martina Ambu and Damien Labadie. Brepols, forthcoming (with Damien Labadie and Alexandros Tsakos).
• “Albanofuturism and Star Death.” Art Studies 23 (2024): forthcoming.
• “Old Dongolawi as the Language of the ‘Southern Nubian’ Inscriptions.” In Nubian Voices: Studies in Christian Nubian Culture, Vol. III, edited by Adam Łajtar, Grzegorz Ochała, and Jacques van der Vliet. Peeters, forthcoming.
• “Four Old Nubian Burial Shrouds from Gebel Adda.” In Nubian Voices: Studies in Christian Nubian Culture, Vol. III, edited by Adam Łajtar, Grzegorz Ochała, and Jacques van der Vliet. Peeters, forthcoming. (with Adam Łajtar and Magdalena Woźniak).
• “Bilingual Greek–Old Nubian Parchments from Qasr Ibrim.” In Nubian Voices: Studies in Christian Nubian Culture, Vol. III, edited by Adam Łajtar, Grzegorz Ochała, and Jacques van der Vliet. Peeters, forthcoming. (with Agata Deptuła and Adam Łajtar).

Published

Monographs

• Rënia e së ardhmes: Arti, korrupsioni dhe fundi i tranzicionit shqiptar. Translated by Bledar Qalliu. Pika pa sipërfaqe, 2023.
• A Reference Grammar of Old Nubian. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta. Peeters, 2021. DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv1q26pvn.
• The Old Nubian Manuscripts from Attiri. Dotawo Monograph 1. punctum books, 2016 (with Vincent Pierre-Michel Laisney, Giovanni Ruffini, Alexandros Tsakos, Kerstin Weber-Thum, and Petra Weschenfelder). DOI: 10.21983/P3.0156.1.00.
• Cross-Examinations. MER. Paper Kunsthalle, 2015.
• The Miracle of Saint Mina. Uitgeverij, 2012 (with El-Shafie El-Guzuuli). DOI: 10.21983/P3.0216.1.00.

Edited Collections

• Disturbing Times: Medieval Pasts, Reimagined Futures. punctum books, 2020 (with Catherine E. Karkov and Anna Kłosowska). DOI: 10.21983/P3.0313.1.00.
• Beta Exercise: The Theory and Practice of Osamu Kanemura. punctum books, 2019 (with Marco Mazzi). DOI: 10.21983/P3.0241.1.00.
• ’Pataphilology: An Irreader. punctum books, 2018 (with Sean Gurd). DOI: 10.21983/P3.0232.1.00.
• Going Postcard: The Letter(s) of Jacques Derrida. punctum books, 2017. DOI: 10.21983/P3.0171.1.00.
• Allegory of the Cave Painting. Mousse, 2015 (with Mihnea Mircan).
• Workers leaving the studio. Looking away from socialist realism. punctum books, 2015. DOI: 10.21983/P3.0115.1.00.
• Lapidari. 3 Vols. punctum books, 2015. DOI: 10.21983/P3.0094.1.00; 10.21983/P3.0091.1.00; 10.21983/P3.0092.1.00.
• Pedagogies of Disaster. punctum books, 2013 (with A. Staley Groves and Nico Jenkins). DOI: 10.21983/P3.0050.1.00.
• continent. Year 1. punctum books, 2012 (with Jamie Allen, Paul Boshears, Bernard Garnicnig, A. Staley Groves, and Nico Jenkins). DOI: 10.21983/P3.0016.1.00.
• Follow Us or Die: Works from the High School Shooters Selected by Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei and Jonas Staal. Atropos Press, 2009.

Articles

• “Scenes: Punctum Books: An Interview with Vincent W. J. van Gerven Oei and Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy.” American Book Review 45, no. 2 (2024): 168–73 (with Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy). DOI: [10.1353/abr.2024.a937815](https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2024.a937815.
• “What Is Your Threshold? The Economics of Open Access Scholarly Book Publishing, the “Business” of Care, and the Case of punctum books.” Journal of Electronic Publishing 26, no. 1 (2023) (with Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy). DOI: 10.3998/jep.3627.
• "Corrigenda to a ‘Dance for a Princess’ (DBMNT 1364)." Journal of Juristic Papyrology 52 (2022): 53–54.
• “An Old Nubian Sale from Gebel Adda." Journal of Juristic Papyrology 52 (2022): 35–52.
• “On the Possible Meroitic Origin of the Old Nubian Titles ⲥⲁⲙⲉⲧ and ⲥⲁⲙⲉⲧⲓⳟⲟ.” Orientalia 91, no. 1 (2022): 117–32 (with Gilda Ferrandino). DOI: 10.32060/Orientalia.1.2022.117-132.
• “Dongola 2018, Winter Season: Epigraphic Note.” Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 30, no. 2 (2021): 525–35 (with Adam Łajtar). DOI: 10.31338/uw.2083-537X.pam30.2.19.
• “The Albanian Lapidar Survey.” Art Studies 19 (2021): 45–57.
• “Potential Old Nubian Cognates for Meroitic aleqese.“ Sudan & Nubia 24 (2020): 292–300 (with Gilda Ferrandino).
• “Three Bilingual Greek–Old Nubian Psalms from Dongola (DP 2–4).“ Orientalia 89, no. 2 (2020): 287–316 (with Adam Łajtar). DOI: 10.32060/Orientalia.2.2020.287-316.
• “Finding Old Nubian, Or, Why We Should Divest from Western Tongues.” postmedieval 11, nos. 2–3 “Confessions” (2020): 301–9. DOI: 10.1057/s41280-020-00182-9.
• “An Old Nubian Lunary with a Greek Addition from Gebel Adda.” Le muséon 133, nos. 1–2 (2020): 13–30 (with Adam Łajtar). DOI: 10.2143/MUS.133.1.3287659
• “An Old Nubian Curse from the Faras Cathedral.” Études & Travaux XXXII (2019): 81–88. DOI: 10.12775/EtudTrav.32.005.
• “Two Old Nubian Texts from Akasha West.” Études & Travaux XXXII (2019): 89–97 (with Adam Łajtar). DOI: 10.12775/EtudTrav.32.006
• “Rubrication Patterns in Two Old Nubian Texts from Serra East.” Études & Travaux XXXII (2019): 99–110 (with Alexandros Tsakos). DOI: 10.12775/EtudTrav.32.007.
• “For Sale: Geography in Old Nubian Land Sales.” Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies 6 (2019): 89–111. DOI: 10.5070/D66146253.
• “An Old Nubian Letter from the Daughter of an Eparch.” Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies 5 (2018): 91–98 (with Alexandros Tsakos). DOI: 10.5070/D65110022.
• “Subject Clitics: New Evidence from Old Nubian.” Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 3, no. 1, art. 7 (2018). DOI: 10.5334/gjgl.503.
• “A Dance for a Princess: The Legends on a Painting in Room 5 of the SW Annex of the Monastery on Kom H in Old Dongola.” The Journal of Juristic Papyrology 47 (2017): 117–35.
• “The Etymology of the Toponym ‘Dorginarti (Notes on Medieval Toponymy 6).’” Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies 4 (2017): 273–76 (with Alexandros Tsakos). DOI: 10.5070/D64110000.
• “The Etymology of the Toponym ‘Pourgoundi (Notes on Medieval Toponymy 5).’” Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies 4 (2017): 267–72 (with Alexandros Tsakos). DOI: 10.5070/D64110008.
• “In Search of the Nubian Master-Builders: An Architectural Drawing from the Cathedral in Faras, Appendix: Prayer of a Young Woman.” Polish Archeology in the Mediterranean 25 (2016): 826–27.
• “Old Nubian Relative Clauses.” Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies 2 (2015): 9–57. DOI: 10.5070/D62110018.
• “The Disturbing Object of Philology.” postmedieval 5, no. 4 (2014): 442–55. DOI: 10.1057/pmed.2014.32.
• “Remarks toward a Revised Grammar of Old Nubian.” Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies 1 (2014): 165–84. DOI: 10.5070/D61110015.
• “By Any Language Necessary: Quentin Meillassoux and the Question Concerning Signification in Philosophy.” Quaderna 2 (2014).
• “Staatstaal en taalstaat: Een inleiding tot Albanese taalpolitiek.” nY 18 (2013).
• “I was thinking sparrow Lena stick…”: Or, How Gombrowicz Exposed Philosophy’s Immaturity.” Frakcija 66/67 (2013), 138–47. Translated to Croatian by Marina Miladinov as “Ja sam mislio vrabac Lena…”, ili: : Kako je Gombrowicz razotkrio nezrelost filozofije.” Frakcija 66/67 (2013), 128–37.
• “Heidegger’s Mom and the Joke of Democracy: Fictional Notes on the Political.” Berfrois, October 24, 2012.
• “The Poetry of Jean Daive.” continent. 2, no. 2 (2012): 82–98.
• “Tekendichtheid: Over Jean Daives Narration d’équilibre 2: ‘Sllt’.” Parmentier 21, no. 2 (2012): 65–71.
• “Cumposition: Theses on Philosophy’s Etymology.” continent. 2, no. 1 (2012): 44–55.
• “De mens als masochistisch dier: Over De honden van Hervé Guibert.” nY 12 (2012): 606–9.
• “The Missing Link / Monument for the Distribution of Wealth.” continent. 1, no. 4 (2011): 242–52 (with Jonas Staal).
• “Mijn hoogte blootsvoets op zeeniveau: Over Ridefinizione van Alessandro De Franceso.” Parmentier 20, no. 4 (2011): 89–91.
• “Anders Breivik: On Copying the Obscure.” continent. 1, no. 3 (2011): 213–23.
• “Greek Returns: The Poetry of Nikos Karouzos.” continent. 1, no. 3 (2011): 201–7 (with Nick Skiadopoulos).
• “The Poetry of Nachoem M. Wijnberg.” continent. 1, no. 2 (2011): 129–35.
• “Circulating Philosophy: A Note on Two Apparent Misquotations in Alain Badiou’s Logics of Worlds.” Theory & Event 14, no. 2 (2011) (with John Van Houdt). DOI: 10.1353/tae.2011.0025.
• “The Poetry of Adam Staley Groves.” continent. 1, no. 1 (2011): 51–58.

Book Chapters

• “Apostolic Memoirs in Old Nubian.” In Parabiblica Coptica, edited by Ivan Miroshnikov. Mohr Siebeck, 2023 (with Alexandros Tsakos).
• “A New Set of Subject Markers in Old Nubian.” In Current Research in Nilo-Saharan, edited by Roger M. Blench, Petra Weschenfelder, and Georg Ziegelmeyer. Rüdiger Köppe, 2023.
• “Scholarship as Biography: An Allegorical Reading of the Philological Work of G.M. Browne.” In Disturbing Times: Medieval Pasts, Reimagined Futures, edited by Catherine E. Karkov, Anna Kłosowska, and Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei. punctum books, 2020. DOI: 10.53288/0313.1.03
• “Translating Greek to Old Nubian: Reading between the lines of Ps.-Chrysostom’s In venerabilem crucem sermo.” In Caught in Translation: Versions of Late-Antique Christian Literature, edited by D. Batovici & M. Toca. Brill, 2020 (with Alexandros Tsakos).
• “Language on Pause: Hamacher’s Seconds of Celan and Daive.” In Give the Word: Responses to Werner Hamacher’s “95 Theses on Philology,” edited by Ann Smock and Gerhard Richter. University of Nebraska Press, 2019.
• “Women in the Southwest Annex.” In Dongola 2015–2016: Fieldwork, Conservation, and Site Management, edited by Włodzimierz Godlewski, Dorota Dzierzbicka, and Adam Łajtar. PCMA Excavation Series 5. University of Warsaw Press, 2018 (with Adam Łajtar). DOI: 10.31338/uw.9788323534877.pp.75-78.
• “Postface.” In Going Postcard: The Letter(s) of Jacques Derrida, edited by Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei. punctum books, 2017. DOI: 10.21983/P3.0171.1.16.
• “The Old Nubian Morpheme -ⲁ in Nominal and Verbal Predicates.” In Nubian Voices: Studies in Christian Nubian Culture, Vol. II, edited by Adam Łajtar, Grzegorz Ochała, and Jacques van der Vliet. The Journal of Juristic Papyrology Supplement 27. Raphael Taubenschlag Foundation, 2015.
• “Return to Reading.” In Allegory of the Cave Painting, edited by Mihnea Mircan and Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei. Mousse, 2015.
• Foreword to Marco Mazzi. Uninspired Architecture. Maschietto Editore, 2014.
• “A Passion for Yes: Coming Out and Affirmation.” In Pedagogies of Disaster, edited by Nico Jenkins, Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, and Adam Staley Groves. punctum books, 2013. DOI: 10.21983/P3.0050.1.14.
• Preface to Alessandro De Francesco. Augmented Writing. La Camera Verde, 2013.
• “‘I’m like the Unicorn’: Desiring Language.” In Relational Syntax, edited by Marco Mazzi. Maschietto Editore, 2012.
• “The Old Nubian Memorial for King George.” In Nubian Voices: Studies in Christian Nubian Culture, edited by Adam Łajtar and Jacues van der Vliet, 225–62. The Journal of Juristic Papyrology Supplement 15. Raphael Taubenschlag Foundation, 2011.
• “Meer informatie.” In Wat we missen kunnen, edited by Daniël van der Meer et al. Babel & Voss, 2010.
• “Epilogue.” In Dearest Tinkebell, edited by Katinka Simonse. d’jonge Hond, 2009.

Blog Posts

• “Maybe Persistent but Certainly Not Unique: On the Proliferation of DOIs in Open Access Book Publishing.” COPIM (blog), March 17, 2025 (with Toby Steiner, Hannah Hillen, and Ross Higman).
• “Antagonize This! The Empty Signification of “Academy-Owned” Publishing in the Neoliberal University.” punctum books (blog), November 12, 2024 (with Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy).
• “Open Standards, Open Infrastructures, and Author Inclusion: Transitioning to Open eBook Usage Data.” punctum books (blog), August 14, 2023.
• “A Vision Statement for Thinking, Writing, and Publishing Otherwise in the University without Condition.” punctum books (blog), January 18, 2022 (with Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy).
• “Prioritizing Metadata Output Formats for Thoth.” COPIM (blog), February 3, 2021.
• “Open Metadata in Thoth.” COPIM (blog), November 24, 2020.
• “Scholar-led Open Access Publishers Are Not “Author-Chutes”.” punctum books (blog), August 3, 2020 (with Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy).
• “Viral Open Access in Times of a Global Pandemic.” punctum books (blog), March 19, 2020.
• “Why CC BY-NC Licenses Are Still Necessary in Open Access Book Publishing.” punctum books (blog), February 14, 2020.
• “Here’s What You Can Do with Your Overhead.” punctum books (blog), December 11, 2019.
• “What the Ronell–Reitman Case Tells Us about the Predatory University.” punctum books (blog), August 22, 2018.
• “Publishing as Activism: punctum books, Aaron Swartz, and the Medieval Sudan.” punctum books (blog), July 25, 2017.

Encyclopedia Entries

• “Old Nubian.” UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. 2024. DOI: 10.5070/G9.3919
• “Old Nubian.” The Encyclopedia of Ancient History: Asia and Africa. October 28, 2021. DOI: 10.1002/9781119399919.eahaa00449.

Reviews

• Review of Nicholas Tochka, Projekt Jon (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024). Art Studies 22 (2023): 183–89.
• Review of Giovanni R. Ruffini, The Bishop, the Eparch, and the King: Old Nubian Texts from Qasr Ibrim (P. QI 4), Journal of Juristic Papyrology supplements, 22. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, April 28, 2015.

Audiovisual Resources

• “Bilingual Greek/Old Nubian Psalm 95:9–13 from Qasr Ibrim.", YouTube, July 30, 2025.
• “Bilingual Greek/Old Nubian Psalm 45:2–3 from Qasr Ibrim.", YouTube, July 28, 2025.
• “Semi-bilingual Greek/Old Nubian Exodus 15:2–17 from Qasr Ibrim (Part 1).", YouTube, July 6, 2025.
• “Semi-bilingual Greek/Old Nubian Psalm 84 from Qasr Ibrim (Part 2)." YouTube, March 21, 2025.
• “Semi-bilingual Greek/Old Nubian Psalm 84 from Qasr Ibrim (Part 1)." YouTube, March 20, 2025.
• “Bilingual Greek/Old Nubian Exodus 15:8–9 from Qasr Ibrim." YouTube, March 19, 2025.
• “An Undeciphered Inscription from Soba." YouTube, December 19, 2023.
• “More Work on the Old Nubian Mystery Inscription." YouTube, February 18, 2023.
• “New Inscription from a Tomb(?), Excavated Just Days Ago." YouTube, February 17, 2023.
• “The Last Few Unreadable Lines of Komar’s Burial Shroud. First Pass Finished!" YouTube, July 13, 2021.
• “Filling in the Blanks of Komar’s Burial Shroud, Line 7–17." YouTube, July 12, 2021.
• “Another 3 Excruciating Lines from Komar’s Shroud from Gebel Adda." YouTube, July 11, 2021.
• “More Work on Komar’s Shroud from Gebel Adda." YouTube, July 9, 2021.
• “Does Komar’s Burial Shroud from Gebel Adda Contain the Same Text as Gapoiapa’s?" YouTube, May 30, 2021.
• “Revisiting the Burial Shroud from Qasr Ibrim." YouTube, May 14, 2021.
• “Comparing Gapoiapa’s and Oulouloudi’s Burial Shrouds from Gebel Adda." YouTube, May 13, 2021.
• “Gapoiapa’s Lost Burial Shroud from Gebel Adda." YouTube, May 12, 2021.
• “Sonqi Tino reprise: Update on 8W4 and fruitless work on 8N8." YouTube, March 30, 2021.
• “More work on Sonqi Tino: A list of denials in I.ST 8W4." YouTube, January 25, 2021.
• “A Coptic–Old Nubian Magical Text from Qasr Ibrim." YouTube, November 21, 2020.
• “Reviewing the Transcription of Old Nubian Inscription I.ST 8S3 from the Sonqi Tino Church Chapel." YouTube, November 3, 2020.
• “More Tedious Work on the Gebel Adda Sale." YouTube, October 16, 2020.
• “Major new insights into the Old Nubian Sale from Gebel Adda (DBMNT 700)." YouTube, October 11, 2020.
• “Reediting the Old Nubian Inscription from the Raphael Church in Tamit – Part 2." YouTube, October 9, 2020.
• “Reediting the Old Nubian Inscription from the Raphael Church in Tamit – Part 1." YouTube, September 30, 2020.
• “Old Nubian Crash Course – Day 5: Sentences and Subordination." YouTube, September 18, 2020.
• “Old Nubian Crash Course – Day 4: All about the Verb." YouTube, September 17, 2020.
• “Old Nubian Crash Course – Day 3: Quantification, Predication, Person." YouTube, September 16, 2020.
• “Old Nubian Crash Course – Day 2: Noun Phrases." YouTube, September 15, 2020.
• “Old Nubian Crash Course – Day 1: History and Writing System." YouTube, September 14, 2020.