“St. Jerome: Writer and Teacher.”

 

On December 13, 2006, Dr Catherine Chin (School of Theology and Religious Studies) organized a one-day colloquium under this title.

 

The Colloquium was designed to present the work of students from the School of Theology and Religious Studies, the Medieval and Byzantine Studies Program, and the Department of Greek and Latin.  Dr Catherine Conybeare, Associate Professor of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies at Bryn Mawr, responded to the presentations.  The papers were originally developed as part of Dr Chin’s graduate course, “Jerome: the Idea of Christian Literature.”

 

The speakers and titles were:

Elizabeth-Jane Pavlick, “Simplicitas as Spiritual Virtue and Stylistic Device in Jerome’s Homilies.”

Tim Kearns, “Jerome and Sermo Humilis.”

Robert Simkins, “Erotic Martyrdom: Bataille, Jerome and a Meretrix.”

Dana Robinson Lampe, “Jerome and the Role of Christian Literary Culture.”

Jared Ortiz, “Semper Virgo? An Essay on Method.”

Stuart Squires, “Ambrose in the Shadows: the Presence of the Bishop of Milan in the Correspondence between Jerome and Augustine.”