- Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies, Bryn Mawr College
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 five monographs, including The Irrational Augustine (2006) and The Laughter of Sarah (2013), and more than ninety articles and reviews on such topics as aurality, touch, violence, and the self. Conybeare's latest monograph, Augustine the African, came out in 2025; it was named a New Yorker Best Book of 2025 and reviewed in the New York Review of Books and the Wall Street Journal.
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, and has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Toronto, as well as the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.
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