Contact
You can reach me at my work email: email at sophushelle dot com.
Bio
PhD in Comparative Literature from Aarhus University, 2020. MA in Assyriology from the University of Copenhagen, 2017. Winner of the European Young Researcher Award 2020 Popular Prize and the Aarhus University Research Foundation 2021 PhD Prize.
I am the managing editor of the NEH-funded project Library of Babylonian Literature, working as an external consultant at Princeton University. I am also the cohost of the Danish podcast Mythos. I have also worked as a regular contributor to the Danish newspaper Weekendavisen and a board member of the Danish Institute in Athens.
I am writer with a passion for taking seemingly obscure topics and making them relevant to my readers. I have written on subjects as diverse as Babylonian epics, climate change, medieval philosophy, love in Disney, and the art of falling, but I am always driven by the same desire: to share the facts that fascinate me, and to make them as compelling as I can. All my writing is infused by this urge; I call it “Advanced Show & Tell.”
PS: I’ve made a keyboard layout that makes it easier to transcribe and transliterate Akkadian and Sumerian. Download it here.
Photograph by Pierce Bartman. Find more author photos here.