Angeliki Oikonomou

Research topic during fellowship: Embodied Paths: Feet on the Ground and the Power of Ritual Gait

Angeliki Oikonomou is a PhD candidate at the Department of Philology at the University of Ioannina, under the supervision of Professor Athanasia Zografou. She holds a BA and an MA from the same home institution. In her MA dissertation, she focused on the ritual binding of the human body in the epigraphical corpus of curse tablets. Her PhD thesis, entitled "Body and Ritual: Embodied Experience in the Corpus of the Greek Magical Papyri," examines how the body shapes both the practitioner's ritual experience and the overall efficacy of the ritual process.

Her research interests include ancient Greek religion, myth, and magic, as well as the study of the senses. Her work puts emphasis on religious experience and is aligned with the application of theories drawn from the field of Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR). Working within the multicultural context of Greco-Roman Egypt, her research further engages with Egyptian myth and religion.

She has participated in academic activities in Greece and abroad, presenting her research, and her first chapter in an international collective volume has been submitted for publication.