37 Publications (Page 1 of 2)
2024
Characterization and Identity in Mesopotamian Literature: The Gilgamesh Epic, Enuma elish, and Other Sumerian and Akkadian Narratives. Contemporary Approaches to Mesopotamian Literature: How to Tell a Story
 
Contemporary Approaches to Mesopotamian Literature. How to Tell a Story
 
Emotions and Ancient Near Eastern Art. Issues and Methods
 
Gilgamesh and Tiamat Abroad. (Mis-)Reading Mesopotamian Epic
 
How to Tell a Story in Ancient Mesopotamia. Contemporary Approaches to Mesopotamian Literature: How to Tell a Story
 
Making the Invisible Visible: Propaganda, Ideology, and Intertextuality in Assyrian Royal Narrative. Contemporary Approaches to Mesopotamian Literature: How to Tell a Story
 
Mesopotamian Literature: Issues, Theories, and Methods of Sumerian and Akkadian Narrative Analysis. Contemporary Approaches to Mesopotamian Literature: How to Tell a Story
2023
Between Science and Aesthetics in the Nineteenth-Century Public Museum. The Elgin Marbles, The Chain of Art, and the Victorian Assimilation of Assyrian Sculpture
2022
Awe as Entangled Emotion: Prosociality, Collective Action, and Aesthetics in the Sumerian Gilgamesh Narratives. The Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East, ed. Karen Sonik and Ulrike Steinert
 
Emotions and Body Language: The Expression of Emotions in Visual Art. The Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East, ed. Karen Sonik and Ulrike Steinert
 
Emotions in the Ancient Near East: Foundations for a Developing Field of Study (with Ulrike Steinert) The Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East, ed. Karen Sonik and Ulrike Steinert
 
The distant eye and the ekphrastic image
Sonik, Karen
(pp. 530–557). Routledge
 
The Emotions of Dead Civilizations: ‘Come, Tell Me How You Lived The Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East, ed. Karen Sonik and Ulrike Steinert
 
The Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East. Routledge
2021
Art/ifacts and ArtWorks: De-Colonizing the Study and Museum Display of Ancient and Non-Western Things. Art/ifacts and ArtWorks in the Ancient World, ed. Karen Sonik
 
Entangled Images: Royal Memory, Posthumous Presence, and the Afterlives of Assyrian Rock Reliefs
(pp. 39–68). BRILL
 
Gilgamesh and emotional excess: The king without counsel in the SB Gilgameshepic
Sonik, K.
(pp. 390-409)
 
Minor and Marginal(ized)? Re-Thinking Women as Minor Characters in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Journal of the American Oriental Society
. | Journal Article
 
The Ancient Near East: Western | Non-Western. Art/ifacts and ArtWorks in the Ancient World, ed. Karen Sonik
2019
Historians Respond to Whitehouse et al. (2019), “Complex Societies Precede Moralizing Gods Throughout World History, by Slingerland, Edward, M. Willis Monroe, Brenton Sullivan, Robyn Faith Walsh, Daniel Veidlinger, William Noseworthy, Conn Herriott, Ben Raffield, Janine Larmon Peterson, Gretel Rodríguez, Karen Sonik, William Green, Frederick S. Tappenden, Amir Ashtari, Michael Muthukrishna, Rachel Spicer. Journal of Cognitive Historiography
. | Journal Article
 
Journey to the City: A Companion to the Middle East Galleries at the Penn Museum, ed. Steve Tinney and Karen Sonik. University of Pennsylvania Press
2017
Visualizing Emotions in the Ancient Near East
S.N.
Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
2015
Between Cognition and Culture: Theorizing the Materiality of Divine Agency in Cross- Cultural Perspective
Pongratz-Leisten, Beate and Sonik, Karen
DE GRUYTER
 
Divine (Re-)Presentation: Authoritative Images and a Pictorial Stream of Tradition in Mesopotamia. The Materiality of Divine Agency, ed. Beate Pongratz-Leisten and Karen Sonik
 
Hand of God. Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception 11: 183-184