Martin Worthington is an Assyriologist at Trinity College Dublin.
Research interests include orthographic abbreviation in Babylonian and Assyrian of the second and first millennia BC; the Babylonian Gilgamesh epic; Sumerian Songs and Spells; Spellings and linguistic awareness in the Middle Assyrian Laws; Akkadian Textual Criticism.
Experience
2020–present
Al-Maktoum Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Dept of Near and Middle East, Trinity College Dublin
2012–2020
Lecturer then Senior Lecturer in Assyriology, Dept of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
2017–2018
Visiting Research Scholar, ISAW, NYU
2010–2012
British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, SOAS, University of London
2006–2010
Junior Research Fellow, St John's College, Cambridge