Institute of Egyptian Art & Archaeology

Lorelei H. Corcoran, Ph.D.

Director, Institute of Egyptian Art & Archaeology and
Associate Professor of Art History, Department of Art

Ph.D., University of Chicago,
Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, 1988

Address:
Institute of Egyptian Art & Archaeology
University of Memphis
201 Jones Hall
Memphis, TN 38152-3380

Telephone:
(901) 678-2555

Dr. Corcoran is Associate Professor of Art History and Director of the Institute of Egyptian Art & Archaeology at the University of Memphis. She is graduate advisor to the M.A. program in Art History with a concentration in Egyptian art and archaeology.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Iconography of the funerary arts of ancient Egypt, specializing in Roman period; ancient Egyptian portraiture; social context of imagery in ancient Egyptian culture; portrait mummies; epigraphy

PUBLICATIONS:

Monographs:

Dissertation: Portrait Mummies from Roman Egypt. University of Chicago, 1988.

Portrait Mummies from Roman Egypt (I-IV Centuries A.D.): with a Catalog of Portrait Mummies in Egyptian Museums, University of Chicago, Oriental Institute, Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization, No. 56, 1995.

Select Articles and Exhibitions:

"Face to Face with the Past: Portrait Mummies from Roman Egypt." In Antico Egitto, in press.

"The Mummy, Cartonnage Set and Coffin of Irtwirw." In Egyptian Museum Collections around the World, M. Eldamaty and M. Trad, eds., Supreme Council of Antiquities, Cairo, 2002.

"Masks." In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, D. Redford, ed., Oxford University Press, London and New York, 2001.

"A Case for Narrativity: Gilt Stucco Mummy Cover in the Graeco-Roman Museum, Alexandria, inv. 27808." In Gold of Praise: Studies in Ancient Egypt in Honor of Edward F. Wente, Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization, No. 58, E. Teeter and J.A. Larson, eds., University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1999.

Africa's Egypt , an exhibition curated for the Pink Palace Museum, Memphis, TN, 1999.

"Mysticism and the Mummy Portraits." In Portraits and Masks: Burial Customs in Roman Egypt, M. Bierbrier, ed., British Museum Press, London, 1997.

"Painted Funerary Shroud." In Africa: the Art of a Continent, T. Phillips, ed., Prestel, Munich, 1995.

"Evidence for the Survival of Pharaonic Religion in Roman Egypt." In Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt, II/18, H. Temporini and W. Haase, eds., Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 1995.

"A Cult Function for the So-called Faiyum Portraits?" In Life in a Multi-Cultural Society: Egypt from Cambyses to Constantine and Beyond, Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization, no. 52, J. Johnson, ed., University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1992.

"Exploring the Archaeological Metaphor: The Egypt of Freud's Imagination." In The Annual of Psychoanalysis, no. 19, 1991.

Another Egypt: Coptic Christians at Thebes (7th-8th Centuries A.D.), an exhibition curated for the The Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1990-1991. Co-curated with Terry Wilfong.

"The Roman Period." In Mummies and Magic: The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt, S. D'Auria, P. Lacovara and C. Roehrig, eds., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1988.

"Hawara Portrait Mummy no. 4" In Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 71, 1985.