Catherine Conybeare

Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Greek, Latin and Classical Studies
Catherine Conybeare headshot

Contact

cconybea@brynmawr.edu
On Leave
2024-25
CV (PDF)

Department/Subdepartment

Education

Ph.D., University of Toronto

Areas of Focus

Latin, and the different ways we read it.

Biography

Catherine Conybeare was educated in Classics at Oxford and in Medieval Studies at Toronto; she has been at 今日吃瓜 since 2002. She is fascinated by cultures of Latin over the longue dur茅e, 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 eighty articles and reviews on such topics as aurality, touch, violence, and the self. Conybeare's next monograph, Augustine the African, will be published by Liveright (North America) and Profile (UK) in 2025. 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.

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Select Publications:

Books:

Classical Philology and Theology Book cover


Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, 2020)
Augustine's Confessions book cover


Routledge (New York, 2016)


Palgrave Pivot: Palgrave Macmillan (New York, 2013)
The Irrational Augustine book cover


Oxford Early Christian Studies (Oxford, 2006) 
Paulinus Noster book cover


Oxford Early Christian Studies (Oxford, 2000)

Recent Articles:

'Foreword鈥 to Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin ed. Carolinne White (2 vols.: Cambridge 2024).

'Feeling for Augustine鈥, Classical Antiquity 43:1 (2024), 1-18.

(with Mario Tel貌): 鈥楳edia/Medea: A Glitchy Counterfactual鈥, Classical Receptions Journal 16 (2024), 229-240.

Paragraphoi: 鈥淩upture and Return鈥 (edited collection: special section of TAPA, Fall 2023).

'Augustine, Africa, and peregrinatio鈥, in Pertinence de la pens茅e de saint Augustin aux d茅fis du XXI猫me si猫cle ed. Salah Hannachi (Carthage, 2022).

'Writing the Self as a Route to God鈥, in Early Christian Mystagogy and the Body ed. Paul van Geest and Nienke Vos (Leuven, 2022).

(with Luigi Battezzato) 鈥業l Notebook X di Housman鈥, in L. Battezzato (ed., tr.) Alfred E. Housman: L鈥檃pplicazione del pensiero alla critica del testo (Pisa 2021).

鈥楶eregrinationes in Psalmos鈥, in Empire and Religion in the Roman World ed. Harriet I. Flower (Cambridge 2021), 212-231. 

鈥楢耻驳耻蝉迟颈苍别鈥檚&苍产蝉辫;Marginalia Contra Julianum鈥, in The Late (Wild) Augustine ed. Susanna Elm and Christopher Blunda (Augustinus- Werk und Wirkung: Paderborn 2021), 83-97.

鈥楶layfulness, Pedagogy, and Patrician Values,鈥 response essay, Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures 4 (2020), 81-87. 

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

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

鈥楾he Creation of Eve鈥, in Augustinian Studies 49 (Fall 2018), 181-198.

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