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Gustavo Fernandes Pedroso is a DPhil student in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford. He has an MPhil in Cuneiform Studies from the University of Oxford and a BA in History from NOVA University Lisbon. His DPhil thesis is entitled "Poetics in Context: Mesopotamian Pious Sufferer Poetry, Penitential Prayers, and their Hebrew Comparators". His research focuses on the use of poetic form in Akkadian and Biblical Hebrew pious sufferer poetry and penitential prayers, and the relation between form and the contexts of use and performance of these compositions. His DPhil is funded by an Open-Oxford-Cambridge Arts and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Training Partnership & St John's College Scholarship and his supervisors are Professor Frances Reynolds and Professor Laura Quick.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Gustavo Fernandes Pedroso

Citation names

  • Fernandes Pedroso, Gustavo

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
FA1C-40D5-FE11
ORCID iD
0000-0002-3752-2991

Email addresses

  • gustavo.fernandespedroso@sjc.ox.ac.uk (Professional)

Addresses

  • St John's College, St Giles, OX1 3JP, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - History and Archaeology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Italian Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
German Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Akkadian Proficiency (C2)
Hebrew Upper intermediate (B2)
Sumerian Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2022/10 - 2025/12/31
Ongoing
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Doctor of Philosophy)
Major in Assyriology and Biblical Studies
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
"Poetics in Context: Mesopotamian Pious Sufferer Poetry, Penitential Prayers, and their Hebrew Comparitors." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2024/10/01 - 2025/07/01
Ongoing
Alter Orient (Doctor of Philosophy)
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
2020/10 - 2022/07/22
Concluded
MPhil Cuneiform Studies (Master)
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
"Divine Wrath and Reconciliation in Ludlul Bel Nemeqi and Shuilla-Prayers to Marduk: A Comparative Approach." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Distinction
2017/10 - 2020/06
Concluded
História (Licenciatura)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2023/01 - Current Visiting Researcher (Research) CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution
Employer
2022/12 - Current Tutor (University Teacher) University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2020/11 - 2024/06/30 Colaborador em Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) University of Oxford Wolfson College, United Kingdom
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/10 - Current Poetics in Context: Mesopotamian Pious Sufferer Poetry, Penitential Prayers, and their Hebrew Comparators
PhD Student Fellow
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
University of Oxford St John's College

Arts and Humanities Research Council
Ongoing
2024/10/01 - 2025/10/01 Poetic Form of Suffering and Penitence in Mesopotamia
SAS-2024-028\6
Research Fellow
Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Fernandes Pedroso, Gustavo. "Marduk’s Emotional Duality in Ludlul bel nemeqi and Akkadian Penitential Prayers". Paper presented in International Conference for Ancient East-Mediterranean Studies (ICAEM) 2023, Tartu, 2023.
    Submitted
Journal article
  1. Fernandes Pedroso, Gustavo. "Parallel Stanza Structuring in Ludlul bel nemeqi and the Babylonian Theodicy". Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 1 (2024):
    Open access • In press
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/07/09 Harmony in Contrast: Poetic Metre, Structure, and Antitheses in Ludlul bel nemeqi and Akkadian Incantation-Prayers 69th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale
University of Helsinki (Helsinki, Finland)
2024/04/04 From Storms to Gentle Breezes: Exploring Marduk’s Emotions through Nature Imagery The 12th Oxford Postgraduate Conference in Assyriology
University of Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom)
2023/12/11 Autores, Copistas ou Intérpretes? Os Escribas, as suas Práticas, e os seus Contextos na Assíria e Babilónia do Primeiro Milénio a.C. Aula no âmbito da Unidade Curricular "História Cultural e das Mentalidades da Antiguidade"
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas - Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/11/03 Expressões Poéticas das Identidades Divinas nas Orações Penitenciais Acádicas I Colóquio do Fórum de Pós-Graduandos/as do CHAM - Identidade(s): Políticas, Identificações, Compreensões e Interseccionalidade
CHAM - Centro de Humanidades; Universidade dos Açores (Angra do Heroísmo, Portugal)
2023/09/24 Poetic Form in Ludlul Bel Nemeqi and Similarities in Job (convidado) Text, Form and Redaction in Job
University of Tartu (Tartu, Estonia)
2023/06/02 Marduk’s Emotional Duality in Ludlul Bel Nemeqi and Akkadian Penitential Prayers International Conference for Ancient East-Mediterranean Studies (ICAEM) 2023 “ANGRY GODS: divine wrath and the human sphere in Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean cultures”
University of Tartu (Tartu, Estonia)
2023/03/24 Anger and Mercy: The Conflicting Attitude of Marduk in Ludlul Bel Nemeqi and Akkadian Penitential Prayers The 11th Oxford Postgraduate Conference in Assyriology
University of Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom)
2022/11/21 Translating Akkadian Poetry (convidado) Poetry and Untranslatability Seminar
University of Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT) Discussion Group (Oxford, United Kingdom)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2023/11/03 - Current Co-organizer of the 12th Oxford Postgraduate Conference in Assyriology "From Heaven to Earth - Divinity, Humanity, and Nature in the Ancient Near East" (2024/04/03 - 2024/04/04)
Conference (Co-organisor)
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
2024/06/24 - 2024/07/05 Lecionação do Workshop de Iniciação à Língua Suméria (2024/06/24 - 2024/07/05)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal

CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal
2023/05 - 2023/06 “The Ancient Near East through its Artefacts”, UNIQ Program 2023 (2023/06/27 - 2023/06/27)
Other (Other)
University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, United Kingdom
2022/11 - 2023/03 Co-organizer of the 11th Oxford Postgraduate Conference in Assyriology "DANGER! Threat, Risk, and Uncertainty in the Ancient Near East" (2023/03/23 - 2023/03/24)
Conference (Co-organisor)
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
2019/09/27 - 2019/09/27 "A Arqueologia e a Cidade – onde estão os artefactos e a cultura do passado?", Noite Europeia dos Investigadores (2019/09/27 - 2019/09/27)
Workshop (Other)
CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal
2019/05/20 - 2019/05/22 Symposium Homenagem a Fr. Francolino Gonçalves. OP (1943-2017) (2019/05/20 - 2019/05/22)
Symposium (Other)
CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal

Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade dos Açores, Portugal
2018/10/03 - 2018/10/06 Conferência Internacional Coffee, Bread and Chocolate: Representations, Receptions and Cultural Frontiers (2018/10/03 - 2018/10/06)
Conference (Other)
CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal

Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade dos Açores, Portugal

CESIC - University of Bucharest, Romania
2018/07/05 - 2018/07/05 Escolinha de Verão – Aprender a Brincar com a Antiguidade (2018/07/05 - 2018/07/05)
Workshop (Other)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal

CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal
2017/11/22 - 2017/11/26 II Congresso da Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses (2017/11/22 - 2017/11/26)
Congress (Other)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses, Portugal

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2024/07/01 - 2024/07/30 Tradução para Sumério de poema para curta-metragem "Sumerian Fall" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnMfbthMC3k)

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2024/01/15 - Current Ludlul in Context Adam Ali-Hassan
2023/01 - 2023/03 Astronomy in Context in 1st-Millennium Mesopotamia Luca Thompson and Charlie Chuck
2022/12 - 2022/12 Mesopotamian Religion Haven Harrington
Distinctions

Award

2020 Bolsa de Mérito DGES
Direção Geral do Ensino Superior, Portugal
2020 Merit and Excellence Award
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
2019 Nova Young Talent Awards
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal

Other distinction

2023 Additional Funding for Skills Training
Arts and Humanities Research Council, United Kingdom
2023 Conference Grant
The British Institute for the Study of Iraq, United Kingdom