Elissa Day is a PhD candidate in Egyptology in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations program at Harvard. She received her BA in Egyptology with Chinese from the University of Liverpool, and her MPhil in Egyptology from Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, where she held the Selwyn Borthwick Studentship in Studies in the Ancient World. She then moved to Indiana University, where she taught Classics and Egyptology, and obtained an MA degree in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures.

 Elissa has written dissertations on The Duties of the Vizier, titles of the vizier in the 18^th Dynasty, and intertextuality in Egyptian biography. She has a strong interest in GIS and remote sensing, as well as the digital humanities more broadly, and hopes to pursue PhD research in this area, with a particular focus on ancient Egyptian environments and ecology.

 Outside of Egyptology, Elissa is passionate about diversity and inclusion, and has worked for a number of organisations focussing on outreach and education. She has also appeared in a BBC documentary, Gaming and Me, discussing the relationship between video games and mental health.