Alice Mouton is directrice de recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, France), and since 2012 Professor of Hittite at the Catholic University of Paris. Her main research area is the study of the religions of Hittite Anatolia.
Mouton worked for 8 years as a researcher and a teacher in Strasburg, where she defended her Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches in 2012. In 2013 she entered the “Orient et Méditerranée” CNRS team in Ivry sur Seine.
Mouton has edited several Hittite cuneiform tablets from Boğazköy. She is associated with the “Textzeugnisse der Hethiter” Project of Mainz University, as well as with the Fasıllar Survey Project, a Turkish project supervised by Yrd. Doç. Yiğit Erbil (Hacettepe University, Ankara).
From 2009 until 2012, Mouton supervised an interdisciplinary project on rites of passage in the Ancient Near East, “Vivre, Grandir, Mourir dans l'Antiquité”. This 4-year project was supported by the French National Agency for Research (ANR).
From March 1st, 2018, she will supervise another research project entitled: “Luwili. Luwian religious discourse between Anatolia and Syria”. This 3-year project is supported by the French national agency for research (ANR) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and will be led both by Mouton and Ilya Yakubovich (Marburg University).
Since 2004, Mouton teaches several levels of cuneiform Hittite and hieroglyphic Luwian first at Strasburg University and, since 2012, at the Catholic University of Paris.
Selected Publications
- Rêves hittites. Contribution à une histoire et une anthropologie du rêve en Anatolie ancienne. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 28. Brill, Leiden - Boston 2007.
- Les rituels de naissance kizzuwatniens : un exemple de rites de passage en Anatolie hittite. Études d’archéologie et d’histoire ancienne. De Boccard, Paris 2008.
- Rituels, mythes et prières hittites. Litteratures anciennes du Proche-Orient 21. Le Cerf, Paris 2016.
- Hittitology today. Studies on Hittite and Neo-Hittite Anatolia in Honor of Emmanuel Laroche’s 100th birthday. 5e rencontres d’archeologie de l’IFEA. IFEA, Istanbul 2017.
- co-edited with J.-M. Husser, Le cauchemar dans les sociétés antiques. Actes des journées d’étude de l’UMR 7044 (15-16 Novembre 2007, Strasbourg). Études d’archéologie et d’histoire ancienne. De Boccard, Paris 2010.
- co-edited with I. Rutherford and I. Yakubovich, Luwian Identities. Culture, Language and Religion Between Anatolia and the Aegean. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 64. Brill, Leiden - Boston 2013.
- co-edited with J. Patrier, Life, Death, and Coming of Age in Antiquity: Individual Rites of Passage in the Ancient Near East and its Surroundings. Vivre, grandir et mourir dans l’antiquité : rites de passage individuels au Proche-Orient ancien et ses environs. PIHANS 124. NINO, Leiden 2014.
- “Le porc dans les textes religieux hittites”, in B. Lion and C. Michel (eds), De la domestication au tabou. Le cas des suidés au Proche-Orient ancien, 2006, 255-265.
- “La découverte des Hittites : histoire du déchiffrement du hittite cunéiforme et du louvite hiéroglyphique”, Égypte, Afrique et Orient 47 (2007), 19-26.
- “Réflexions autour de la notion de rituel initiatique en Anatolie hittite. Au sujet de la fête haššumaš (CTH 633)”, Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 11 (2011), 1-38.
- co-authored with Y. Erbil, “Water in Ancient Anatolian Religions: An Archaeological and Philological Inquiry on the Hittite Evidence”, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 71 (2012), 53-74.
- “Hommes et femmes au service des dieux hittites. La répartition sexuée du personnel des temples de l’Anatolie ancienne”, Revue de l’Histoire des Religions 229 (2012), 307-323.
- “Interprétation des rêves et traités oniromantiques au Proche-Orient ancien”, in J. du Bouchet and Chr. Chandenzon (eds), Artémidore de Daldis et l’interprétation des rêves. Quatorze études, 2014, 373-392.
- “Violence ritualisée en Anatolië hittite”, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 105 (2015), 69-85.
- “La fête dite de l’intronisation CTH 569”, in Š. Verharticka (ed.), Audias Fabulas Veteres. Anatolian Studies in Honor of Jana Součková-Siegelová. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 79. Brill, Leiden - Boston 2016, 233-256.
- “Animal sacrifice in Hittite Anatolia”, in S. Hitch and I. Rutherford (eds), Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Greek World. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2017, 239-252.
