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Francoise Mirguet is an Associate Professor of Hebrew and Near Eastern Cultures at Arizona State University's School of International Letters and Cultures. Her research focuses on emotions in late antique Jewish literature, touch practices in early Judaism, and the intersection of body/embodiment with religious and cultural narratives. She holds a PhD from Université Catholique de Louvain (2007) and has held fellowships at Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies.
Key academic contributions include her monograph An Early History of Compassion: Emotion and Imagination in Hellenistic Judaism (2017) and numerous articles on biblical interpretation, gender in early Jewish texts, and pseudepigrapha. She co-chairs the 'Emotions and the Biblical World' section of the European Association for Biblical Studies.
Teaching specialties include Biblical Hebrew, ancient Jewish literature, and interdisciplinary courses on compassion and emotion history. Her recent research explores tactile interactions in the Hebrew Bible and emotional resistance in Josephus' writings.
