Catherine Conybeare | Bryn Mawr College

Chair and Professor of Greek, Latin and Classical Studies

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:

College Hall

Room:

209

Office Hours:

Wednesday 2:00pm - 4:00pm

...and by appointment

Degrees/Education:

Ph.D., University of Toronto

Areas of Focus:

Late Antiquity, Early Christian Studies, contemporary theory.

CV:

cconybea.pdf

Detailed Biography:

Select Publications:

Books:

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).

Edited Volume:

(with Paul B. Harvey, Jr.) Maxima Debetur Magistro Reverentia: Essays on Rome and the Roman Tradition in Honor of Russell T. Scott, Biblioteca di Athenaeum (Como, 2009).

Recent Articles:

‘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.