Edward (Ted) Kelting
Assistant Professor of Mediterranean Studies
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Edward (Ted) Kelting received his Ph.D. in Classics from Stanford University in 2019 and his A.B. in Egyptology and Classics from Brown University in 2012. His research investigates cultural translation in the Roman imperial world. In his current book project, based on his doctoral dissertation and provisionally titled Manetho's Successors: Translating Egypt to early-Imperial Rome, he highlights the agency Egyptians had in articulating Egyptian cultural forms to a Greek and Roman audience. These authors developed a creative mixture of Greek and Egyptian culture that was critical to the representation of Egypt, its religion, and its past in Latin literature.
Other research interests include non-human animal characters in metamorphosis and fable, ancient and modern ethnography, the Afrocentrist reception of Pharaonic Egypt, and new approaches to fragmentary literature.
