Catherine Conybeare

She read classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford (BA, 1985–1989) and did graduate work in Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto (MA, 1991; PhD, 1997) under the supervision of Brian Stock.

In 2002, Conybeare moved back across the Atlantic to take up a position at Bryn Mawr College, where she was promoted to Full Professor in the Department of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies in 2011.

She served as Director of the Graduate Group in Archaeology, Classics, and History of Art at Bryn Mawr College (2006–2014), and was appointed Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities in 2019.

[8] She has been the recipient of a number of awards and fellowships, including from the Guggenheim Foundation,[9] the American Council of Learned Societies[10] and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

[16] She has edited several collections of essays, including co-editing with Simon Goldhill Classical Philology and Theology: Entanglement, Disavowal, and the Godlike Scholar (2021).