Ascetic Culture: Essays in Honor of Philip Rousseau

Contributors

C o n t r i b u t o r s VIRGINIA BURRUS is Professor of Early Church History and Chair of the Graduate Division of Religion at Drew University. Her most recent books are Saving Shame: Martyrs, Saints and Other Abject Subjects (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007) and Seducing Augustine: Bodies, Desires, Confessions (Fordham University Press, 2010), coauthored with Mark Jordan and Karmen MacKendrick. The Life of Saint Helia: Critical Edition, Translation, Introduction , and Commentary, coauthored with Marco Conti, is forthcoming. DANIEL F. CANER is Associate Professor in the Departments of History and Classics at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. He is the author of Wandering , Begging Monks: Spiritual Authority and the Promotion of Monasticism in Late Antiquity (University of California Press, 2002) and History and Hagiography from the Late Antique Sinai (Liverpool University Press, 2010). He is currently writing a book entitled The Rich and the Pure: Christian Gifts, Wealth and Religious Society in Early Byzantium. CATHERINE M. CHIN is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Davis. Her book Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2008. Her next book is tentatively entitled The Momentum of the Word: Rufinus of Aquileia and the Birth of Christian Literature. MALCOLM CHOAT is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University, Sydney. Most recently, he has published Belief and Cult in Fourth-Century Papyri (Brepols, 2006). His next book, A Coptic Handbook of Ritual Power, coedited with Iain Gardner, is forthcoming from Brepols. 390 ELIZABETH A. CLARK is the John Carlisle Kilgo Professor of Religion and History at Duke University. She has recently published Founding the Fathers : Early Church History and Protestant Professors in Nineteenth-Century America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), the first volume in a projected two-volume set. SUSANNA ELM is Professor of History and Classics at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2012, she published Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church: Emperor Julian, Gregory of Nazianzus, and the Vision of Rome (University of California Press). GEORGIA FRANK is Professor of Religion at Colgate University. She has written The Memory of the Eyes: Pilgrims to Living Saints in Christian Late Antiquity (University of California Press, 2000). JAMES E. GOEHRING is Professor of Religion at the University of Mary Washington. He has recently published Politics, Monasticism, and Miracles in Sixth Century Upper Egypt: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Coptic Texts on Abraham of Farshut (Mohr Siebeck, 2012). JOEL KALVESMAKI is Editor in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks. His book The Early Christian Theology of Arithmetic: Number Symbolism in Platonism and Early Christianity was published in 2013 by the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D. C. With Robin Darling Young, he is editing Evagrius and His Legacy. BLAKE LEYERLE is Associate Professor of Theology and Classics at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Theatrical Shows and Ascetic Lives: John Chrysostom’s Attack on Spiritual Marriage (University of California Press, 2001). She is currently completing a book on early Christian pilgrimage. PATRICIA COX MILLER is the W. Earl Ledden Professor Emerita of Religion at Syracuse University. Her most recent book is The Corporeal Imagination : Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009). Her next book is tentatively entitled In the Eye of the Animal: Zoological Imagination in Early Christianity. CLAUDIA RAPP is Professor in the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Vienna and Director of the Division of Byzantine Research in the Institute for Medieval Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She has written Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity: The Nature of Christian Leadership in a Time of Transition (University of California Press, 2005). Contributors 391 SAMUEL RUBENSON is Professor of Church History at Lund University, Sweden. He is the author of The Letters of St. Antony: Monasticism and the Making of a Saint (Trinity Press International, 1998). JANET A. TIMBIE is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literature at the Catholic University of America. In 2007, she coedited The World of Early Egyptian Christianity with James Goehring (Catholic University of America Press). ROBIN DARLING YOUNG is Associate Professor in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. She has published In Procession before the World: Martyrs’Sacrifices as Public Liturgy in Early...