Marie-Louise Bech Nosch (January 1970 -; née Gregersen) is a Professor in the University of Copenhagen and an expert in the interdisciplinary study of prehistoric textiles.
Her main research focus is on the evidence for textile production in Mycenaean Greece provided by the Linear B tablets; she has also published widely on the cross-cultural study of textiles from across the ancient Mediterranean and Near East.
After obtaining her PhD on the Mycenaean textile industry at the University of Salzburg in 2000, supervised by Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy and Oswald Panagl, she worked for the Austrian Academy of Sciences' Mycenaean Commission and as a Carlsberg postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen.
[9] Nosch's main area of expertise is in the study of textile production in Mycenaean Greece, based on archaeological finds, textual evidence from the Linear B tablets, and experimental archaeology;[10] she has published widely on the interpretation of Linear B tablets referring to textiles,[11] the operation of the textile industry,[12][13] the wider Mycenaean economy,[14] and Mycenaean religion.
[15] Nosch has also participated in and directed interdisciplinary research projects on a wide range of aspects of textile production in the classical Greek and Roman worlds,[16] the ancient Near East,[17] and medieval and early modern Europe,[18] and has edited numerous volumes on the cross-cultural study of textiles,[19][20][21] as well as working on the use of textiles as metaphors in literary works.