Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin

Research Interests

08/2020	PhD in Religious Studies/Languages, Literatures and Translation Studies (cotutelle), University of Ottawa/Université Libre de Bruxelles, Ottawa/Brussels
08/2015	MA in Classical Studies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa
05/2013	Honours BA in Classical Studies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa

2024-2025	Junior Fellow, DFG Centre for Advanced Studies “Beyond Canon”, Universität Regensburg
2021-2024	Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Theology, Universitetet I Oslo
2020-2021	Sessional Lecturer in Classics and Religious Studies, University of Ottawa

2022	Prix de thèse Marie-Antoinette Van Huele, Université libre de Bruxelles (for PhD thesis)
2021	Governor General’s Gold Medal in the Humanities, University of Ottawa (for PhD thesis)
2016-2019	Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships Program – Doctoral Scholarship, 105 000$ (over three years)
2015-2016	Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), 15 000$
2015	Prix Domenico Fasciano, Fondation Humanitas pour les humanités gréco-latines au Québec (for Master’s thesis)

2025 Les divinités gréco-égyptiennes dans les textes magiques coptes: Une étude du syncrétisme religieux en Égypte tardo-antique et médiévale (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta; Leuven: Peeters)
2019 Iaô Sabaôth. Pratiques magiques dans la cité des Tongres: une tablette de défixion mise en contexte (Papyrologica Bruxellensia 39; Brussels: Association Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth; with A. Delattre et al.)

2024 ‘“Just as You Quenched the Fiery Furnace of Nebuchadnezzar, Also Quench Every Fever.” The Three
Holy Children in Coptic Magic’, Vigiliae Christianae 78: 58–86. DOI: 10.1163/15700720-bja10087.
2020 ‘Les appels au “Jésus guérisseur” dans les formules iatromagiques coptes’, in A. Boud’hors et al. (eds), Études coptes XVI. Dix-huitième journée d’études (Paris: De Boccard) 171–188
2017 ‘Catalogue des textes magiques coptes’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 63 (2017) 367–408. DOI: 10.1515/apf-2017-0033.
2017 ‘Une malédiction copte sur un ostracon d’Antinoupolis’, Analecta Papyrologica 29 (2017) 119–122.

‘Appropriating the Gods: Magic in the Changing Contexts of Late Antique Egypt’, in J.H.F. Dijkstra and A. Bendlin (eds), Appropriation and Religion in the Greek and Roman Worlds (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
‘Voces Magicae in Apocrypha’, in C. Faraone, R. Martín Hernández, P. Sarischouli, and S. Torallas Tovar (eds), Voces Magicae and the Power of the Unintelligible (Berlin: DeGruyter; with K. Holob).
‘Of Nodes and Names: Exploring Designations and Representations of the Four Bodiless Living Creatures in Coptic Traditions Through Content Network Analysis’, in H. Lundhaug, R. Bélanger Sarrazin, S.P. Cook, F. Graz, and L.L. Toft (eds), Coptic Apocrypha: New Frontiers – New Perspectives (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck).

2024 ‘Prayer of Mary at Bartos.’ e-Clavis: Christian Apocrypha. https://www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-
christian-apocrypha/prayer-of-mary-at-bartos/
2023 ‘Prayer of Christ from the Cross.’ e-Clavis: Christian Apocrypha. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-christian-apocrypha/prayer-of-christ-from-the-cross/ 
2023 ‘The Perils of Love: Love Spells in Coptic Magic’, Peopling the Past (Blog). https://peoplingthepast.com/2023/10/20/blog-post-87-the-perils-of-love-love-spells-in-coptic-magic-with-roxanne-belanger-sarrazin/
2022 ‘Greek and Egyptian Deities in Coptic Magical Texts’, Coptic Magical Papyri Podcast. https://www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/2022/01/20/podcast-10-greek-and-egyptian-deities-in-coptic-magical-texts-with-roxanne-belanger-sarrazin/