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Gustavo Fernandes Pedroso is a DPhil student in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford. He has an MPhil in Cuneiform Studies from the University of Oxford and a BA in History from NOVA University Lisbon. His DPhil thesis is entitled "Poetics in Context: Mesopotamian Pious Sufferer Poetry, Penitential Prayers, and their Hebrew Comparators". His research focuses on the rhetorical uses of poetic form in Akkadian and Biblical Hebrew pious sufferer poetry and penitential prayers, and the relation between form and the contexts of use and performance of these compositions. His DPhil is funded by an Open-Oxford-Cambridge Arts and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Training Partnership & St John's College Scholarship, and his supervisors are Professor Frances Reynolds and Professor Laura Quick. He is currently at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München funded by a Leverhulme Trust Study Abroad Studentship to conduct the research project "Poetic Form of Suffering and Penitence in Mesopotamia."
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Gustavo Fernandes Pedroso

Citation names

  • Fernandes Pedroso, Gustavo

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
FA1C-40D5-FE11
ORCID iD
0000-0002-3752-2991

Email addresses

  • gustavo.fernandespedroso@sjc.ox.ac.uk (Professional)

Addresses

  • St John's College, St Giles, OX1 3JP, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - History and Archaeology
  • Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Specific Languages

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Italian Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
German Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2022/10 - 2025/12/31
Ongoing
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Doctor of Philosophy)
Major in Assyriology and Biblical Studies
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
"Poetics in Context: Mesopotamian Pious Sufferer Poetry, Penitential Prayers, and their Hebrew Comparitors." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2024/10/01 - 2025/07/01
Ongoing
Alter Orient (Doctor of Philosophy)
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
2020/10 - 2022/07/22
Concluded
MPhil Cuneiform Studies (Master)
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
"Divine Wrath and Reconciliation in Ludlul Bel Nemeqi and Shuilla-Prayers to Marduk: A Comparative Approach." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Distinction
2017/10 - 2020/06
Concluded
History (Licenciatura)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2023/01 - Current Visiting Researcher (Research) CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2020/11 - 2024/06/30 Collaborator for Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) University of Oxford Wolfson College, United Kingdom
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/10 - Current Poetics in Context: Mesopotamian Pious Sufferer Poetry, Penitential Prayers, and their Hebrew Comparators
PhD Student Fellow
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
University of Oxford St John's College

Arts and Humanities Research Council
Ongoing
2024/10/01 - 2025/10/01 Poetic Form of Suffering and Penitence in Mesopotamia
SAS-2024-028\6
Research Fellow
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Leverhulme Trust
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Fernandes Pedroso, Gustavo. "The Poetic Structure and Rhythm of Antitheses: An Intertextual Analysis of Ludlul bel nemeqi and Akkadian Incantation-Prayers". Paper presented in Intertextuality in Cuneiform Literature and Beyond Workshop, 69th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Helsinki, 2024.
  2. Fernandes Pedroso, Gustavo. "Marduk’s Emotional Duality in Ludlul bel nemeqi and Akkadian Penitential Prayers". Paper presented in International Conference for Ancient East-Mediterranean Studies (ICAEM) 2023, Tartu, 2023.
    Submitted
Journal article
  1. Fernandes Pedroso, Gustavo. "Parallel Stanza Structuring in Ludlul bel nemeqi and the Babylonian Theodicy". Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 1 (2024): 35-37. https://sepoa.fr/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/NABU-2024-1.pdf.
    Open access • Published
Online resource
  1. Wagensonner, Klaus; Pagé-Perron, Émilie; Barber, Joseph; Fernandes Pedroso, Gustavo; Bampfield, Lara. User Guides: Images Acquisition and Processing. 2025. https://cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/docs/images-acquisition-and-processing#content-generating-a-fatcross-in-adobe-photoshop.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Divine Wrath and Reconciliation in Ludlul bel nemeqi and in Shuilla-Prayers to Marduk: A Comparative Approach". Master, University of Oxford Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, 2022.

Other

Other output
  1. Sumerian Poem "sa ku3-sig17 im-shir3-shir3/Golden Strings Sing". Translation of the poem "Golden Strings Sing" into Sumerian for the short film "Sumerian Fall". 2024. Fernandes Pedroso, Gustavo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnMfbthMC3k.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/01/11 Poetic Persuasiveness: Rhetorical Aspects of Form in the Shuila to Marduk no. 2 Junge Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft Konferenz
Philipps-Universität Marburg (Marburg, Germany)
2024/07/09 Harmony in Contrast: Poetic Metre, Structure, and Antitheses in Ludlul bel nemeqi and Akkadian Incantation-Prayers Intertextuality in Cuneiform Literature and Beyond Workshop, 69th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale
University of Helsinki (Helsinki, Finland)
2024/04/04 From Storms to Gentle Breezes: Exploring Marduk’s Emotions through Nature Imagery The 12th Oxford Postgraduate Conference in Assyriology
University of Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom)
2024/03/22 Poesia na Antiguidade: Uma Investigação sobre a Forma Poética em Acádico e Hebraico Bíblico Workshop de Estudos Avançados sobre a(s) Antiguidade(s) Asiática(s): temáticas, perspetivas e experiências académicas
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas - Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/12/11 Autores, Copistas ou Intérpretes? Os Escribas, as suas Práticas, e os seus Contextos na Assíria e Babilónia do Primeiro Milénio a.C. Class for the curricular unit "História Cultural e das Mentalidades da Antiguidade"
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas - Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/11/03 Expressões Poéticas das Identidades Divinas nas Orações Penitenciais Acádicas I Colóquio do Fórum de Pós-Graduandos/as do CHAM - Identidade(s): Políticas, Identificações, Compreensões e Interseccionalidade
CHAM - Centro de Humanidades; Universidade dos Açores (Angra do Heroísmo, Portugal)
2023/09/24 Poetic Form in Ludlul Bel Nemeqi and Similarities in Job Text, Form and Redaction in Job
University of Tartu (Tartu, Estonia)
2023/06/02 Marduk’s Emotional Duality in Ludlul Bel Nemeqi and Akkadian Penitential Prayers International Conference for Ancient East-Mediterranean Studies (ICAEM) 2023 “ANGRY GODS: divine wrath and the human sphere in Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean cultures”
University of Tartu (Tartu, Estonia)
2023/03/24 Anger and Mercy: The Conflicting Attitude of Marduk in Ludlul Bel Nemeqi and Akkadian Penitential Prayers The 11th Oxford Postgraduate Conference in Assyriology
University of Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom)
2022/11/21 Translating Akkadian Poetry Poetry and Untranslatability Seminar
University of Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT) Discussion Group (Oxford, United Kingdom)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2024/06/24 - 2024/07/05 Organisation and teaching of the Workshop de Iniciação à Língua Suméria (2024/06/24 - 2024/07/05)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal

CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal
2024/06/01 - 2024/06/17 "Tablet-Making Workshop," Ancient Anatolia Day (2024/06/17 - 2024/06/17)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
University of Oxford Wolfson College, United Kingdom
2023/11/03 - 2024/04/04 12th Oxford Postgraduate Conference in Assyriology "From Heaven to Earth - Divinity, Humanity, and Nature in the Ancient Near East" (2024/04/03 - 2024/04/04)
Conference (Co-organisor)
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
2023/05 - 2023/06 "The Ancient Near East through its Artefacts," UNIQ Program 2023 (2023/06/27 - 2023/06/27)
Other (Co-organisor)
University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, United Kingdom
2022/11 - 2023/03 11th Oxford Postgraduate Conference in Assyriology "DANGER! Threat, Risk, and Uncertainty in the Ancient Near East" (2023/03/23 - 2023/03/24)
Conference (Co-organisor)
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
2019/09/27 - 2019/09/27 "A Arqueologia e a Cidade – onde estão os artefactos e a cultura do passado?", Noite Europeia dos Investigadores (2019/09/27 - 2019/09/27)
Workshop (Other)
CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal
2019/05/20 - 2019/05/22 Symposium Homenagem a Fr. Francolino Gonçalves. OP (1943-2017) (2019/05/20 - 2019/05/22)
Symposium (Other)
CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal

Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade dos Açores, Portugal
2018/10/03 - 2018/10/06 Conferência Internacional Coffee, Bread and Chocolate: Representations, Receptions and Cultural Frontiers (2018/10/03 - 2018/10/06)
Conference (Other)
CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal

Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade dos Açores, Portugal

CESIC - University of Bucharest, Romania
2018/07/05 - 2018/07/05 Escolinha de Verão – Aprender a Brincar com a Antiguidade (2018/07/05 - 2018/07/05)
Workshop (Other)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal

CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal
2017/11/22 - 2017/11/26 II Congresso da Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses (2017/11/22 - 2017/11/26)
Congress (Other)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2025/02/02 - 2025/02/07 Masterclass for learning how to handle, decipher, and document cuneiform tablets
Workshop
Masterclass Cuneiform Epigraphy
Universität Heidelberg Institut für Assyriologie, Germany

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/04 - 2024/06 Akkadian Grammar and Unprepared Translation MPhil in Cuneiform Studies (Master) University of Oxford Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, United Kingdom

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2024/01 - 2024/03 Ludlul in Context Adam Ali-Hassan
2023/01 - 2023/03 Astronomy in Context in 1st-Millennium Mesopotamia Luca Thompson and Charlie Chuck
2022/12 - 2022/12 Mesopotamian Religion Haven Harrington

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2025/01 - 2025/06 Jury member of the 4th edition of the RedEscolas AntiCorruption program All4Integrity, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2020 DGES Merit Scholarship
Direção Geral do Ensino Superior, Portugal
2020 Merit and Excellence Award
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
2019 Nova Young Talent Awards
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal

Other distinction

2023 Additional Funding for Skills Training
Arts and Humanities Research Council, United Kingdom
2023 Conference Grant
The British Institute for the Study of Iraq, United Kingdom