Mariam F. Ayad, Ph.D., teaches graduate-level classes on 
Egyptian language and literature at the University of Memphis, where she is the assistant director of its Institute of 
Egyptian Art and Archaeology. Her main research interests 
focus on the role of women in ancient Egyptian temple ritual 
and the selection and transmission of funerary texts in post–
New Kingdom Egypt. Her book on the God’s Wife of Amun 
is under contract with Routledge.
and Th e Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work (2006).