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Faculty Writing Support
Emerging Research from Rhetoric and Composition Studies
Jaclyn Wells
University Press of Colorado, 2025
This edited collection offers 11 studies that illustrate the different ways writing studies researchers can use their training to study how faculty write. Moving beyond the lore that often dominates conversations about faculty writers, Faculty Writing Support explores how our discipline can expand its understanding of how faculty write and how they can be supported. The contributors raise questions about how graduate students transition to faculty writers, what types of support faculty writers want at different stages of their careers, and how and why faculty write together. Drawing on research methods including surveys, interviews, case studies, and audio recordings of writing groups, the contributors to Faculty Writing Support offer a first look at grounded research interventions with faculty and advanced graduate student writers. The collection acts as a call for writing studies to turn its disciplinary attention to faculty writing within higher education.
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Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt
Emerging Research from the APPEAR Project
Marie Svoboda
J. Paul Getty Trust, The, 2020
This publication presents fascinating new findings on ancient Romano-Egyptian funerary portraits preserved in international collections.

Once interred with mummified remains, nearly a thousand funerary portraits from Roman Egypt survive today in museums around the world, bringing viewers face-to-face with people who lived two thousand years ago. Until recently, few of these paintings had undergone in-depth study to determine by whom they were made and how.
 
An international collaboration known as APPEAR (Ancient Panel Paintings: Examination, Analysis, and Research) was launched in 2013 to promote the study of these objects and to gather scientific and historical findings into a shared database. The first phase of the project was marked with a two-day conference at the Getty Villa. Conservators, scientists, and curators presented new research on topics such as provenance and collecting, comparisons of works across institutions, and scientific studies of pigments, binders, and supports. The papers and posters from the conference are collected in this publication, which offers the most up-to-date information available about these fascinating remnants of the ancient world.

The free online edition of this open-access publication is available at www.getty.edu/publications/mummyportraits/ and includes zoomable illustrations and graphs. Also available are free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle/MOBI downloads of the book.
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Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt, Volume 2
Emerging Research from the APPEAR Project
Marie Svoboda
J. Paul Getty Trust, The, 2026
This open-access publication presents new research on ancient Romano-Egyptian mummy portraits, including examinations of artifacts never previously studied.

Nearly a thousand funerary portraits from Roman Egypt, once interred with mummified remains, survive in museums around the world. These fascinating paintings offer the unparalleled opportunity for viewers to come face-to-face with people who lived and died some two thousand years ago.

The international collaboration known as APPEAR (Ancient Panel Paintings: Examination, Analysis, and Research) was launched in 2013 to promote the study of these objects and gather research findings in a shared database. This second volume of Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt compiles seventeen scholarly papers from the APPEAR conference hosted in October 2022 at the Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam. Conservators, scientists, and curators presented new research on topics such as technical imaging; nondestructive analytical techniques; provenance and collecting; treatment histories; connoisseurship and forgeries; comparisons of works across institutions; and scientific studies of woods, pigments, coatings, binders, and supports. This volume will be a valuable resource to conservators, scientists, curators, and collectors.

The free online edition of this open-access publication is available at getty.edu/publications/mummy-portraits-2/ and includes zoomable illustrations and graphs. Also available are free PDF and EPUB downloads of the book.
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