Catherine Conybeare

Catherine Conypierre, a renowned classics scholar, is the first woman to write a biography of Augustine since journalist Rebecca West nearly a century ago. The reinterpretation of Augustine's writings and those of his contemporaries formed the core of her academic work. She has received awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Scientific Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and others. She is Leslie Clark Professor of Humanities at Bryn Mawr College.…