Coptic Studies from Egypt to Los Angeles

Lisa Agaiby is Academic Dean and Senior Lecturer in Coptic Studies at St. Athanasius College, University of Divinity Australia. Her most recent publication is the edited volume First in the Desert: St. Paul the Hermit in Text and Tradition (Brill, 2024). Lillian I. Larsen is Crawford Chair of Religious Studies at the University of Redlands in Southern California. Her ongoing exploration of education in emergent Christian monasticism is captured in numerous publications, including a co-edited volume Monastic Education in Late Antiquity (Cambridge, 2018).Arsenius Mikhail is is Professor of Liturgical Studies at St. Athanasius & St. Cyril Theological School and lead researcher of the Bohairic Euchologia Project at the University of Regensburg. He has published monographs and articles on Coptic Liturgy including Analecta Hymnica Coptica (Peeters, 2023).Tamara L. Siuda, Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University in California, is an Egyptologist and Coptologist working on the transmission and preservation of Coptic culture through martyrological narratives. She is an Associate Managing Editor of the Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia.