Isabella Bonati

Isabella Bonati is currently an Assistant Researcher at the Universidade de Lisboa, Centro de Estudos Clássicos. She is an External Researcher at the North-West University of Potchefstroom, South Africa, where she has previously worked as a Researcher and Temporary Lecturer. She has completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Papyrology at the Department of Letters, Arts, History and Society of the University of Parma, Italy, where she was involved in research activities within the ERC project DIGMEDTEXT (Online Humanities Scholarship: A Digital Medical Library based on Ancient Texts), funded by the EC. She holds a PhD in Papyrology from the University of Parma and she received an Yggdrasil grant 2012-2013 at the University of Oslo. Her main research interests are concerned with papyrology, especially lexical studies. Other research interests include classical philology, linguistics, archaeology, history of medicine. She published articles in various international journals such as Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE), Marburger Beiträge zur Antiken Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte (MBAH), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists (BASP), and Early Science and Medicine (ESM). She also published a book entitled "Glosse esotiche nei frammenti di Ipponatte. Gli esotismi nella lingua del giambografo di Efeso" (Voces peregrinae in the Fragments of Hipponax. Foreign Loan-words in the language of the iambographer of Ephesus), EAI, Saarbrücken 2015, and the monograph "Il lessico dei vasi e dei contenitori greci nei papiri. Specimina per un repertorio lessicale degli angionimi greci" (The Vocabulary of Greek Vases and Containers in the Papyri. Specimens for a Dictionary of Ancient Greek Vase Names) APF-B 37, De Gruyter, Berlin-Boston 2016.
Supervisors: Previous Supervisor: Dr. Johan Steencamp, NorthWest University, and SA