Lisa is the Academic Dean and Senior Lecturer at St Athanasius College (SAC). She has a Masters degree in Egyptology and a Masters in Coptic Studies (both from Macquarie University, Sydney Australia), and a PhD from Macquarie University and from the University of Göttingen, Germany. Her areas of interest include Coptic Studies, Early Egyptian Monasticism, Archaeology, and Christian-Arabic Studies.

Her latest publications include: Her latest publications include: First in the Desert: St. Paul the Hermit in Text and Tradition (Brill, 2024); with Tim Vivian, Door of the Wilderness: The Greek, Coptic, and Copto-Arabic Sayings of St. Antony of Egypt (Brill, 2021); with Mark N. Swanson, and Nelly Van Doorn-Harder, Copts in Modernity (Brill, 2021); and The Arabic Life of Antony attributed to Serapion of Thmuis. Cultural Memory Reinterpreted (Brill, 2018).

Lisa is currently leading a pioneering project to digitise and catalogue the collection of manuscripts at the ancient Coptic Monastery of St Paul the Hermit at the Red Sea, Egypt.

University Appointments

Academic Dean (St Athanasius College)
Senior Lecturer (St Athanasius College)

External Affiliations

• Bulletin de la Société d'Archéologie Copte (Editorial Board)
• International Association for Coptic Studies (Member)
• St Shenouda the Archimandrite Coptic Society (Member)