Yasmine Amory is a specialist in Byzantine Egypt, documentary papyrology and, in particular, epistolary practices in Late Antiquity. After international training between Florence, Paris and Princeton, she obtained her doctorate from the École pratique des hautes études in 2018 with a thesis on Greek letters from the archives of Dioscore of Aphrodite (Egypt, 6th c.). She then joined Ghent University as a postdoctoral researcher on the ERC project "Everyday Writing in Graeco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt. A Socio-Semiotic Study of Communication Variety". Between 2021 and 2024, she was in charge of the project "An Ancient World of Manners. A Multimodal Approach to Politeness Theory through Greek Documentary Papyri" funded by the Special Research Fund of the same University.
Alongside her work editing and republishing Greek and Coptic Byzantine papyri, she is the author of several articles on epistolary correspondence on papyrus and recently co-edited the volume Novel Perspectives on Communication Practices in Antiquity: towards a Historical Social-Semiotic Approach (Brill, 2022).
