Marja Vierros

Personal profile

Description of research and teaching

Associate Professor (Classical Philology), tenure-track. I am the principal investigator of the project "Digital Grammar of Greek Documentary Papyri" (ERC Starting Grant 2017). Before that I was a postdoctoral researcher in the project Act of the Scribe. Transmitting Linguistic Knowledge and scribal Practices in Graeco-Roman Antiquity funded by the Academy of Finland. A previous project of my own as a postdoctoral researcher of the Academy of Finland was called: SEMATIA: Linguistic Annotation of the Greek Documentary Papyri. In general, I am interested in languages and linguistic variation, language contact and bilingualism using mainly Greek papyrological sources. Especially digital resources in the study of the ancient languages are my focus area. My PhD dissertation (2011) was about bilingual notaries in Hellenistic Egypt (published as Bilingual Notaries in Hellenistic Egypt. A Study of Greek as a Second Language. Collectanea Hellenistica 5. Brussel).

I am also a member of a research group (led by Professor Jaakko Frösén) publishing the carbonized papyrus dossier from the Byzantine period, found in Petra, Jordan.

Education/Academic qualification

Greek language and literature, PhD, University of Helsinki

Keywords

6121 Languages
Greek language and literature
Latin language and Roman literature
Papyrology
Language contact and bilingualism in antiquity

International and National Collaboration Publications and projects within past five years.

Publications 2000 2019

18 Chapter
17 Article
1 Anthology or special issue
1 Book
2 More
- 1 Doctoral Thesis
- 1 Master's thesis

Copying practices in Ptolemaic Egypt: A discussion based on agoranomic contracts from Pathyris

Vierros, M., 2019, In : Tyche : Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik. 2018, 33, p. 207–230 24 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

Open Access

Languages, Scripts, Literature and Bridges between Cultures

Vierros, M. K. & Torallas Tovar, S., 2019, A Companion to Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt. Vandorpe, K. (ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, p. 485–500 16 p. 31

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review

2. Three minor documents

Vierros, M. K. & Lehtinen, M. S., 2018, The Petra Papyri V. Arjava, A., Frösén, J. & Kaimio, J. (eds.). American center of oriental research, Vol. 5. p. 246–251 6 p. (American Center of Oriental Research Publications; no. 8).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review

65. Request for transfer of taxation

Vierros, M. K., 2018, The Petra Papyri V. Arjava, A., Frösén, J. & Kaimio, J. (eds.). Amman: American center of oriental research, Vol. 5. p. 216–220 5 p. (American Center of Oriental Research Publications; no. 8).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review

66. Request for transfer of taxation

Vierros, M. K., Gagos, T. & Koenen, L., 2018, The Petra Papyri V. Arjava, A., Frösén, J. & Kaimio, J. (eds.). Amman: American center of oriental research, Vol. 5. p. 221–225 5 p. (American Center of Oriental Research Publications; vol. 8).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review

Projects 1968 2023

2 Finished
2 Active

Digital Grammar of Greek Documentary Papyri

Vierros, M.

European Commission / Horizon 2020

01/03/2018 → 28/02/2023

Project: Research project

ActS: Act of the Scribe. Transmitting linguistic knowledge and scribal practices in Graeco-Roman Antiquity.

Leiwo, M., Halla-aho, H., Vierros, M. & Dahlgren, S. A. K.

01/09/2015 → 31/08/2019

Project: Research project

SEMATIA: Linguistic Annotation of the Greek Documentary Papyri – Detecting and Determining Contact-Induced, Dialectal and Stylistic Variation

Vierros, M.

01/09/2012 → 31/08/2015

Project: Research project

Kreikankielisten papyrusten julkaiseminen

Frösen, J., Arjava, A., Buchholz, M., Kaimio, J. J., Kaimio, M., Purola, T., Salmenkivi, E., Satama (ent. Vesterinen), M. & Vierros, M.

01/01/1968 → 31/12/2017

Project: Research project

Activities 2001 2019

33 Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
17 Public Talks
7 Peer review of manuscripts
7 Types for other activities - External teaching and subject coordination
15 More

EpiDoc and Treebanking training workshop

Marja Vierros (Chair of organizing committee), Polina Valentinova Yordanova (Member of organizing committee), Gabriel Bodard (Member of organizing committee), Simona Stoyanova (Member of organizing committee)

8 Apr 2019 → 11 Apr 2019

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars