Dr. Dina Serova

Dina Serova completed her PhD in Northeast African Archaeology and Cultural Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2021. Her doctoral thesis Nakedness and Nudity in Ancient Egypt: Epistemes, Lexemes and (Re-)Constructions explores body conceptualizations through texts, images, and archaeological remains, analyzing these primary sources within archaeological discourses from a diachronic perspective.

Currently, Dina is a postdoctoral researcher at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and teaches classes on Ancient Egyptian languages and written culture as well as their interpretation by means of theories and methods derived from sociolinguistics, cultural studies, and sociology.

Since 2024, Dina is a Junior PI of the project Asymmetric Communication in Ancient Egypt within the Collaborative Research Center 1412 “Register” where she investigates register knowledge and variation in Ancient Egyptian narrative and mortuary texts from a linguistic perspective. She is an active member of several international research groups and projects, such as Multimodal Communication in Ancient Egypt with Silvia Kutscher and the Middle Kingdom Theban Project led by Antonio J. Morales, which emphasize her academic diversity and broad research interests.