Catherine Conybeare

Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Greek, Latin and Classical Studies
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Contact

cconybea@brynmawr.edu
On Leave
2024-25
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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 鶹Ƶ 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 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’ to Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin ed. Carolinne White (2 vols.: Cambridge 2024).

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

(with Mario Telò): ‘Media/Medea: A Glitchy Counterfactual’, Classical Receptions Journal 16 (2024), 229-240.

Paragraphoi: “Rupture and Return” (edited collection: special section of TAPA, Fall 2023).

'Augustine, Africa, and peregrinatio’, in Pertinence de la pensée de saint Augustin aux défis du XXIème siècle ed. Salah Hannachi (Carthage, 2022).

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

(with Luigi Battezzato) ‘Il Notebook X di Housman’, in L. Battezzato (ed., tr.) Alfred E. Housman: L’applicazione del pensiero alla critica del testo (Pisa 2021).

‘Peregrinationes in Psalmos’, in Empire and Religion in the Roman World ed. Harriet I. Flower (Cambridge 2021), 212-231. 

‘AܲܲپԱ’s&Բ;Marginalia Contra Julianum’, in The Late (Wild) Augustine ed. Susanna Elm and Christopher Blunda (Augustinus- Werk und Wirkung: Paderborn 2021), 83-97.

‘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.