Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Greek, Latin and Classical Studies
Catherine Conybeare
Department/Subdepartment: 
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies
Graduate Group in Archaeology, Classics, and History of Art
Email: 
cconybea [at] brynmawr.edu
Phone: 
610-526-5036
Building: 
Old Library
Room: 
209
On leave: 
2019-20
Office Hours: 
...and by appointment

Degrees/Education:

Ph.D., University of Toronto

Areas of Focus:

Latin, and the different ways we read it.

Detailed Biography:

Catherine Conybeare was educated in Classics at Oxford and in Medieval Studies at Toronto; she has been at Bryn Mawr since 2002. She is fascinated by cultures of Latin over the longue durée, and has recently started a book series on that theme with Cambridge University Press. Her teaching ranges from Cicero and Lucretius to Abelard and Petrarch. Her research centres on late antiquity, and especially the writings of Augustine of Hippo. She has written four monographs, including The Irrational Augustine (2006) and The Laughter of Sarah (2013), and more than sixty articles and reviews on such topics as aurality, touch, violence, and the self. Conybeare is currently working on her next monograph, Augustine the African; she is also co-editing with Simon Goldhill Philology’s Shadow, essays exploring the interdependence of theology and classical philology.

Select Publications:

Books:

The Routledge Guidebook to Augustine’s Confessions Routledge

The Routledge Guidebook to Augustine’s Confessions
Routledge (New York, 2016)

Philosophy: Catherine Conybeare discusses the Routledge ...www.routledge.com
The Routledge Guidebook to Augustine’s Confessions is an engaging introduction to this spiritually creative and intellectually original work. We spent five minutes ...
The Laughter of Sarah

The Laughter of Sarah
Palgrave Pivot: Palgrave Macmillan (New York, 2013).
The Irrational Augustine

The Irrational Augustine
Oxford Early Christian Studies (Oxford, 2006). 
Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola

Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola  
Oxford Early Christian Studies (Oxford, 2000).


Recent Articles:

  • 'The Creation of Eve’, in Augustinian Studies 49 (Fall 2018), 181-198.

  • ‘Mundus totus exsilium est: On Being Out of Place’, in Reading Late Antiquity ed. Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed and Mats Malm (Heidelberg 2018), 239-252.

  • ‘Review Essay: Toward a Hermeneutics of Laughter’, in Journal of Late Antiquity 10,2 (Fall 2017), 503-14.

  • ‘Noli me tangere: Theology and Touch’, in Touch and the Ancient Senses ed. Alex Purves, The Senses in Antiquity vol. 5 (London/New York, 2017), 167-179.

  • ‘Vt tecum tamquam mecum audeam conloqui: The Politics of Return’, in Augustinian Studies 48 (Fall 2017), 105-117.

  • ‘How to Lament an Eternal City: the Ambiguous Fall of Rome’, in The Fall of Cities: Commemoration in Lament, Folksong and Liturgy, ed. Mary Bachvarova, Dorota Dutsch, and Ann Suter (Cambridge, 2016), 212-225.

  • ‘Augustine's De Civitate Dei’, in Patriarchal Moments: Reading Patriarchal Texts, ed. Cesare Cuttica and Gaby Muhlberg, Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought (London/ New York, 2016), 43-48.

  • ‘Augustini Hipponensis Africitas’, in The Journal of Medieval Latin 25 (2015), 111-30.

  • ‘Augustine's Rhetoric in Theory and Practice’, in The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies, ed. Michael MacDonald (Oxford, 2014 [online]; 2017 [print]).

  • 'The city of Augustine: on the interpretation of civitas', in Being Christian in Late Antiquity. A Festschrift for Gillian Clark ed. Carol Harrison, Caroline Humfress, and Bella Sandwell (Oxford, 2014), 139-55.

  • 'Making Space for Violence', in Journal of Late Antiquity 6,2 (Fall 2013), 203-15.