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

Degrees/Education:

Ph.D., University of Toronto

Areas of Focus:

Latin, and the different ways we read it.

CV: 
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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, under contract to Liveright (North America) and Profile (UK). She has been the recipient of a number of awards and fellowships, including from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the NEH.

Select Publications:

Books:

Classical Philology and Theology: Entanglement, Disavowal, and the Godlike Scholar
Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, 2020)

 

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
Palgrave Pivot: Palgrave Macmillan (New York, 2013)

The Irrational Augustine
Oxford Early Christian Studies (Oxford, 2006) 

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


Recent Articles:

‘Playfulness, Pedagogy, and Patrician Values,’ response essay, Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures 4 (2020), 81-87. 

 ‘Virgil, Creator of the World’, in Classical Philology and Theology: Entanglement, Disavowal, and the Godlike Scholar ed. Catherine Conybeare and Simon Goldhill (Cambridge 2020), 180-198. 

‘Correcting a Heretic: Augustine’s Conlatio cum Maximino’, in Fide non Ficta: Essays in Memory of Paul B. Harvey Jr. ed. John Muccigrosso and Celia Schultz (Como 2020), 115-127.

‘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.