AUGUSTINE THE AFRICAN: Catherine Conybeare (Bryn Mawr College) in conversation with Mario Telò

Catherine Conybeare (Bryn Mawr College) in conversation with Mario Telò. They discuss Conybeare's new book, Augustine the African (Liveright 2025).

Catherine Conybeare, a renowned classicist, is the first woman to write a biography of Augustine since journalist Rebecca West nearly a century ago. Reinterpreting the writings of Augustine and his contemporaries has formed the heart of her scholarly work. She has received awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others. She is Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities at Bryn Mawr College and lives in Pennsylvania. 

Mario Telò is Professor of Rhetoric, Comparative Literature, and Ancient Greek and Roman Studies. His latest monographs are Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler (2024), Roman Comedy against the Subject (2025), and the forthcoming The Late Animal; Edward Said, Classicism, and the Limits of Humanism.