Joanne Stolk
University lecturer
- Name
- Dr. J.V. Stolk
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2906
- j.v.stolk@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Joanne Stolk is a Lecturer in Greek papyrology and Coptic connected to the Leiden Centre for the Arts in Society and the Leiden Papyrological Institute.
Research
Joanne Stolk is a Lecturer in Greek papyrology and Coptic connected to the Leiden Centre for the Arts in Society and the Leiden Papyrological Institute. She is a Greek and Coptic papyrologist and works on new editions of Greek and Coptic documentary papyri from various collections. Her research focusses on language variation and text production of Greek papyri from Egypt, with a particular interest in literacy, orthography and morphology, scribal education and training, palaeography and materiality, language contact and multilingualism in ancient society.
Grants and awards
Research projects
“What’s wrong? Ancient corrections in Greek papyri from Egypt (AnCor)”, PI, ERC Starting Grant
“In the mind of the scribe: an integrated sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic approach to orthographic variation and change in the Greek language of the papyri”, Senior postdoctoral fellowship, The Research Foundation – Flanders
“Language norms from below: the Greek language in Graeco-Roman Egypt”, Postdoctoral fellowship, Research Council of Norway and the Co-funding of Regional, National, and International Programmes (COFUND) – Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions under the EU Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)
“Scribal corrections, language variation and language change in Greek documentary papyri from Egypt (300 BCE – 800 CE)”, Junior postdoctoral fellowship, The Research Foundation – Flanders
“Strengthening research capacity in the papyrus collection of the Oslo University Library”, Subproject: “Papyri and Greek Linguistic History”, PhD fellowship, The Research Council of Norway
Curriculum Vitae
Employment
2022- University Lecturer in Greek Papyrology, Leiden University
2022-2023 Senior postdoctoral researcher FWO, Ghent University
2019-2020 University Lecturer in Papyrology, Leiden University
2017-2020 Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow, University of Oslo
2016-2022 Junior postdoctoral research FWO, Ghent University
2016 Senior research librarian, papyrus collection of the Oslo University Library
2012-2016 Doctoral researcher, University of Oslo
2010-2012 Freelancer Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden
2007-2009 Student-assistant Leiden Papyrological Institute
Education
2015: Doctoral degree, Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Arts and Ideas, University of Oslo
2012: ResMA Linguistics: Structure and Variation of the Languages of the World, Leiden University
2011: MA Ancient History, KU Leuven
2009: BA Comparative Indo-European Linguistics, Leiden University
2009: BA Greek and Latin Language and Culture, Leiden University
Teaching
Ancient Near Eastern Studies (BA)
Classics (BA)
Classics and Ancient Civilizations (MA)
Classics (MA)
Egyptology (MA)
Selected publications
“A slip of the pen, the eye or the mind? Accidental scribal mistakes in Greek documentary papyri”, BASP 61 (2024)
with Francisca A.J. Hoogendijk, Greek, Demotic and Coptic Papyri and Ostraca in the Leiden Papyrological Institute (Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava 40). Leiden: Brill (2023).
“A cognitive approach to spelling production in historical sources: explaining the variation between <e, ai> and <o, ō> in Greek documentary papyri”, Transactions of the Philological Society 119:3 (2021) 289-314.
“Orthographic variation and register in the corpus of Greek documentary papyri (300 BCE – 800 CE)”, in Klaas Bentein and Mark Janse (eds), Varieties of Post-Classical and Byzantine Greek. (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 331). Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton (2020) 299-326.
University lecturer
- Faculty of Humanities
- Centre for the Arts in Society
- Griekse T&C
- Hoogendijk F.A.J. & Stolk J.V. (2023), Greek, Demotic and Coptic papyri and ostraca in the Leiden Papyrological Institute. Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava no. 40. Leiden: Brill.
- Stolk J.V., Dahlgren S. & Keersmaekers A. (2022), Language contact in historical documents: the identification and co-occurrence of Egyptian transfer features in Greek documentary papyri, Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 8(2): 325-356.
- Stolk J.V. (2021), A cognitive approach to spelling production in historical sources: explaining the variation between and in Greek documentary papyri, Transactions of the Philological Society 119(3): 289-314.
- Amory Y. & Stolk J.V. (2021), A Coptic letter to Dioscorus of Aphrodite from the collection of the Ghent University Library, Chronique d'Egypte 96(191): 147-153.
- Stolk J.V. (2021), Lease contract between priests. In: Stolk J.V. & Van Loon G. (Eds.), Text editions of (abnormal) Hieratic, Demotic, Greek, Latin and Coptic papyri and ostraca : some people love their friends even when they are far away: festschrift in honour of Francisca A.J. Hoogendijk. Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava no. 37. Leiden: Brill. 159-163.
- Stolk J.V. (2020), Combining linguistics, palaeography and papyrology: the use of the prepositions eis, prós and épi in Greek papyri. In: Seržant I. & Rafiyenko D. (Eds.), Postclassical Greek: contemporary approaches to philology and linguistics: De Gruyter Mouton. 97-110.
- Stolk J.V. (2020), Orthographic variation and register in the corpus of Greek documentary papyri (300 BCE-800 CE). In: Bentein K. & Janse M. (Eds.), Varieties of post-classical and Byzantine Greek: De Gruyter Mouton. 299-326.
- Stolk J.V. (2020), Post-Classical Greek from a scribal perspective: variation and change in contemporary orthographic norms in documentary papyri, Mnemosyne 73(5): 750-774.
- Stolk J.V. & Loon G. van (2020), Text editions of (abnormal) Hieratic, Demotic, Greek, Latin and Coptic papyri and ostraca: some people love their friends even when they are far away: festschrift in Honour of Francisca A. J. Hoogendijk. Leiden: Brill.
- Stolk J.V. (2019), Brief van Probus aan Manatine (Ugent Pap. inv. 69). In: Scheijnen T. & Verhelst B. (Eds.), Parels in schrift: huldeboek voor Marc De Groote: Skribis. 35-37.
- Stolk J.V. (2019), Itacism from Zenon to Dioscoros: scribal corrections of and in Greek documentary papyri. In: Nodar A., Torallas Tovar S., Albarrán M., Martín R., Pajón I., Rodríguez J.D. & Santamaría M.A. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 28th international congress of papyrology (Barcelona, 1-6 August 2016): Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat. 690-697.
- Stolk J.V. (2019), Van analfabeten tot langzame schrijvers: Grieks schrijfonderwijs in Egypte, TETRADIO - UNIVERSITEIT GENT. GRIEKENLANDCENTRUM 28: 23-50.
- Maravela A. & Stolk J.V. (2018), Bringing together the family for a daughter’s wedding: P.Yale 1.78 reconsidered, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 55: 275-280.
- Stolk J.V. (2018), Encoding linguistic variation in Greek documentary Papyri: the past, present and future of editorial regularization. In: Reggiani N. (Ed.), Digital Papyrology II: case studies on the digital edition of ancient Greek Papyri: De Gruyter. 119-137.
- Stolk J.V. (2018), Review of: Reggiani N. (2017) Digital papyrology I: methods, tools and trends, Bryn Mawr Classical Review : .
- Stolk J.V. (2017), Dative alternation and dative case syncretism in Greek : the use of dative, accusative and prepositional phrases in documentary papyri, Transactions of the Philological Society 115(2): 212-238.
- Stolk J.V. (2017), Dative and genitive case interchange in Greek papyri from Roman-Byzantine Egypt, Glotta : Zeitschrift fuer Griechische und Lateinische Sprache 93: 182-212.
- Stolk J.V. (2017), Subscriptions to a lease contract, JOURNAL OF COPTIC STUDIES 19: 57-60.
- Stolk J.V. (2017), Subscriptions to a renunciation contract, JOURNAL OF COPTIC STUDIES 19: 53-56.
- Stolk J.V. (2016), Dative and genitive case interchange in Greek papyri from the Ptolemaic period. In: Derda T., Łajtar A. & Urbanik J. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 27th International Congress of Papyrology.: Taubenschlag. 1305-1324.
- Stolk J.V. & Nachtergaele D. (2016), Dative for accusative case interchange in epistolary formulas in Greek papyrus letters, Symbolae Osloenses 90(1): 122-163.
- Stolk J.V. (15 December 2015), Case variation in Greek papyri : retracing dative case syncretism in the language of the Greek documentary papyri and ostraca from Egypt (300 BCE–800 CE) (Dissertatie. Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, Humanities, University of Oslo): University of Oslo. Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas. Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Prof. Anastasia Maravela (University of Oslo), Dr. Trevor Evans (Macquarie University Sydney).
- Stolk J.V. (2015), Dative by genitive replacement in the Greek language of the papyri: a diachronic account of case semantics, Journal of Greek Linguistics 15(1): 91-121.
- Depauw M. & Stolk J.V. (2015), Linguistic variation in Greek papyri: towards a new tool for quantitative study, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 55(1): 196--220.
- Stolk J.V. (2015), Scribal and phraseological variation in legal formulas: the adjectival participle of ὑπάρχω + dative or genitive pronoun, Journal of Juristic Papyrology 45: 255-290.
- Øksdal A. & Stolk J.V., Språkforvirring i gresk tok livet av dativ kasus. Oslo: UiO. [blog entry].
- Depauw M. & Stolk J.V. (2015), Trismegistos Text Irregularities. [database].
- Stolk J.V. (2013), A Byzantine business letter and account from the collection of the Oslo University Library, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und Verwandte Gebiete 59(2): 391-400.
- Kildahl M., Stolk J.V. & Maravela A. (2013), Nytt funn om antikkens siste poet. UiO. [other].
- Stolk J.V. (2012), Het boek, de vlam en de muze in Alexandrië: de geschiedenis van de beroemde bibliotheek. In: , Vierde lustrumboek: Puntgaaf Drukwerk. 4-10.