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Curriculum Vitae

Academic Positions

  • October 2018 – Present: Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, UK
    Title: 'Jewish, Muslim and Christian Middle Arabic Folk Tales from the Ottoman Period.'
  • October 2018 – Present: Part-time Research Associate, Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library, UK
  • October 2018 – Present: Research Fellow, St. Edmund's College, Mount Pleasant, Cambridge, UK
  • May 2018 – October 2018: Part-time Research Assistant, Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library, UK

Education

  • October 2014 – May 2018: Doctoral candidate (PhD) in Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, UK
    Title: 'Linguistic Variation in Egyptian Judaeo-Arabic Folk Tales and Letters from the Ottoman Period.'
  • 2013 – 2014: MPhil in Hebrew Studies (Merit), Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, UK
    Title: 'The Judaeo-Arabic Letters of Daniel ben ‘Azaryah.'
  • 2009 – 2010: University of Damascus, Syria
  • 2008 – 2013: BA in Arabic & Theology (1st class honours), University of Exeter, UK

Academic Publications

Book:

  • Connolly, M.M. Linguistic Variation in Egyptian Judaeo-Arabic Folk Tales and Letters from the Ottoman Period. Études sur le judaïsme medieval, Brill (forthcoming)

Peer-Reviewed Journals:

  • Connolly, M.M. 2019. 'Revisiting the Question of ğīm from the Perspective of Judaeo-Arabic', Journal of Semitic Studies 64 (1): 155-183
  • Connolly, M.M. 2019. 'A Comparative Study of Adverbial Subordination in Egyptian Judaeo-Arabic and Muslim Middle Arabic Versions of Qiṣṣat al-ğumğuma from the Ottoman Period', Journal of the Intellectual History of the Islamicate World (In Press)
  • Connolly, M.M. and Posegay, N. ''An Arabic Qurʾān, That You Might Understand': Qurʾān Fragments in the T-S Arabic Cairo Genizah collection', Journal of Islamic Manuscripts (Accepted for Publication, September 2019)
  • Wagner, E.M. and M.M. Connolly. 2017. 'Code-Switching in Judaeo-Arabic Documents from the Cairo Geniza', Multilingua 37 (1): 1-23
  • Connolly, M.M. 'T-S Ar.38.64: A Maġribī Qurʾān Fragment', Fragment of the Month: June 2019 (Cambridge University Library) (June 2019)

Book Chapters:

  • Connolly, M.M. 2018. 'A Nineteenth-Century Egyptian Judaeo-Arabic Folk Narrative: Text, Translation and Grammatical Notes', in N. Vidro., et al, (eds), Studies in Semitic Linguistics and Manuscripts, Uppsala: University of Uppsala Press, 392-420

Invited Papers:

  • Connolly, M.M. ''The Story of the Cairene and the Countryman': A Late Judaeo-Arabic Folk Tale Re-Examined', in Wagner, M. Ottoman Arabic Handbook (forthcoming)

Funding and Awards

Post-Doctoral Scholarship:

  • Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, UK (October 2018 – September 2021)
  • Recipient of a Cambridge Fellowship for 'The Introduction to Islamic Codicology' Course (23–27 September 2019), Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Doctoral Scholarship:

  • 'Le Bas Award', Cambridge Home and European Scholarship Scheme (CHESS) Award, (October 2014 – February 2018)

Fieldwork Grants:

  • Fieldwork Expenses Grant, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge (2017)
  • Rothschild Hanadiv (Europe) Foundation Grant (October 2014 – February 2018)
  • Martin Hinds Travel Fund Grant, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, UK, April (2014)

Undergraduate Award:

  • Dean's Award for Excellence, University of Exeter, UK (July 2013)

Academic and Research Experience

Presentations:

  • 23–24 May 2019: Respondent to Prof. Clive Holes and Dr. Liesbeth Zack at Ottoman Arabic Workshop, Woolf Institute, Cambridge, UK
  • 11–13 February 2019: Respondent to Dr. Rachel Hasson-Kenat at Parenting, Schooling and Identity Formation and Reformation from the Middle Ages to the Modern Period, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK
  • 24 May 2017: 'Some Orthographic Features of Judaeo-Arabic Letters and Folk Narratives from the Ottoman Period', Graduate Symposium, University of Cambridge, UK
  • 20–21 April 2017: 'Adverbial Subordination in Egyptian Judaeo-Arabic and Muslim Middle Arabic Folk Narratives from the Ottoman Period', The Arabic Literary Genizot: Beyond Denominational Borders, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ, USA
  • 20–24 March 2017: 'A Diachronic Examination of Some Functions of Prepositions in Judaeo-Arabic Folk Narratives and Letters from the Ottoman Period', International Association for the Study of Middle and Mixed Arabic (AIMA), University of Strasbourg, France
  • 23 November 2016: 'Revisiting the Question of ğīm from the Perspective of Judaeo-Arabic', Semitic Linguistics Seminar, University of Cambridge, UK
  • 21–22 April 2016: 'Some Functions of Prepositions in a 19th c. Egyptian Judaeo-Arabic Folk Narrative', Ottoman Arabic Workshop, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, UK
  • 9–12 March 2016: 'Genre-specific Variation in Code-Switching in Judaeo-Arabic Letters', HiSON, University of Helsinki, Finland, co-presented with Dr. Esther-Miriam Wagner

Conference and Seminar Organisation:

  • September 2018 – July 2019: Lead organiser, Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew: New perspectives in philology and linguistics (8–10 July 2019), Jesus College, University of Cambridge, UK
  • January – July 2019: Lead organiser of the Cambridge Modern Hebrew Ulpan, 2-week intensive summer school (1–12 July 2019)
  • January – July 2018: Co-organiser, Cambridge Modern Hebrew Ulpan, 2-week intensive summer school (1–12 July 2018)
  • October 2016 – May 2017: Co-organiser, Bilingual Code-Switching Reading Group, University of Cambridge, UK, an inter-disciplinary group aimed at strengthening ties between the Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, the English Faculty and the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages.
  • 3–4 October 2016: Member of the organising committee, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Code-Switching Conference, University of Cambridge, UK

Supervising and Outreach:

  • 23 August 2019: Genizah Research Unit Visit for Sutton Trust Summer School
  • 20-25 August 2019: Mentor, Sutton Trust Summer School, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge, UK
  • 24 November 2018: 'Judaeo-Arabic: The Language (Variety) of Jews in Arab Lands', Masterclasses for Prospective Undergraduates, University of Cambridge, UK
  • 18–22 August 2018: Mentor, Sutton Trust Summer School, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge, UK
  • 7 October 2017 – May 2018: Classical Arabic Grammar supervisions for MPhil student, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, 2–4 hours per week.
  • 15 November 2017: 'Recent Research on Judaeo-Arabic', Cambridge Forum for Jewish Studies, University of Cambridge, UK