Professor Andrew George FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2006
- Sections
- Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Summary
Andrew George studied Assyriology at the University of Birmingham (1973-79) and for a while kept a public house in Darlaston. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on 'Babylonian Topographical Texts' under the supervision of W. G. Lambert (1985). Since 1983 he has taught Akkadian and Sumerian language and literature at SOAS, University of London, where he is now Professor of Babylonian. His specialisms are Babylonian literature, religion and intellectual culture. He has been elected Honorary Member of the American Oriental Society (2012). He is a former Visiting Professor at the University of Heidelberg (2000), Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2004-5) and Research Associate at Rikkyo University, Tokyo (2009). He was founding chairman of the London Centre for the Ancient Near East (1995-2000) and for seventeen years co-editor of the archaeological journal Iraq (1994-2011). His best-known books are a critical edition of the Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic for OUP (2003) and a prize-winning translation of The Epic of Gilgamesh for Penguin Classics (2000). Most recently he has published six volumes of new texts from cuneiform tablets now in Norway.
Current post
Professor of Babylonian, SOAS, University of London
Past appointments
Soas, University Of London Professor of Babylonian, University of London
2000 -
Soas, University Of London Reader in Assyriology
1994 - 2000
Soas, University Of London Lecturer in Ancient Near East Studies
1985 - 1994
Soas, University Of London
1985 -
Publications
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Professor Rosalind (Polly) O’Hanlon FBA
The early modern and colonial history of India; histories of empire, with particular reference to caste and gender; problems in intellectual history and historical methodology in the postcolonial world; history, language and culture of Maharashtra
Professor Francesca Orsini FBA
Literatures of South Asia; multilingual and located approach to world literature; book history in South Asia
Professor Charles Tripp FBA
Politics in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq & Egypt; Islamic political thought; the relationship between art & power in the Middle East.
