Victoria is a Junior Research Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows (2022-2025). She has a Ph.D. in Egyptology from Brown University, a M.A. cum laude in Egyptology and Near Eastern Studies from the University of Pisa,  and a B.A. in History from the University of Seville. She is currently working on the publication of her dissertation as a monograph that will explore how ancient Egyptian royal discourse promoted and exploited community values to justify the king’s authority. Through her use of Politeness and Critical Discourse Analysis in Old Kingdom (ca. 2700-2200 BCE) Egyptian decrees and letters, she argues that political discourse was based on an ambiguation of cooperation and consent that masked conscripted labor as a social duty of service to the monarchy. The model succeeded for several centuries because reciprocal care was a prominent community value visible in interpersonal communication. One of her secondary research interests is the embeddedness of cultural memory and knowledge in iconographical script, and how small, inscribed objects, like scarab seals, contribute to the network of travelling ideas in the ancient Mediterranean world. Besides her dissertation monograph, she is also preparing a sociolinguistic grammar of Old Kingdom letters and decrees that investigates the role that social context plays in linguistic variation. She has authored more than 20 publications of articles, edited volumes, and book chapters with a primary focus on ancient Egyptian philology, but also archaeology, and language. Her research has been awarded grants from the American Research Center in Egypt, and the Stiftungsfonds für Postgraduates der Ägyptologie among others, and has occasionally received media coverage (e.g. NewScientist; National Geographic). She has participated in excavations in Egypt, Sicily (Italy), and worked on the publication of primary sources, such as collections of Egyptian and Egyptianizing scarabs in Italy and Spain, Old Kingdom papyri from Elephantine, and 4^th Dynasty sealings from Giza. Victoria currently collaborates with the Ancient Egypt Research Associates expedition in Giza (Egypt) as an archaeologist at the Menkaure Valley Temple, and a member of the sealings team.  She is Assistant Director to the Royal Necropolis and Pyramids of Nuri Expedition (Sudan), and Assistant Editor of the Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections