Curriculum Vitae
Carole Straw
Professor
Department
of History
South
Hadley, MA 01075
(413)
538-2377
29 Silver
Street
South
Hadley, MA 01075
tel: (413)
536-8984 fax: (413) 533-4077
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in
History, University of California,
Berkeley, 1979. Dissertation: "'Sweet Tortures and Delectable Pains':
The Grammar of Complementarity in the
Works of Gregory the Great."
Directors: Gerard Caspary, Peter
Brown, and Robert Rodgers.
Cand. Phil.
in History, University of California, Berkeley, 1975.
A.B. in
History, University of California, Berkeley, 1971. Phi Beta Kappa.
PUBLICATIONS
Gregory the Great: Perfection in Imperfection, The
Transformation of the Classical Heritage 14.
Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London:
The University of California Press, 1988. Paperback edition published in 1991. Winner of the John Nicholas Brown Prize from the Medieval Academy
of America, 1992.
Gregory the Great. Authors of the Middle Ages 12. London:
Variorum, 1997.
The New Historiographies of Late
Antiquity, ed. Richard Lim and Carole Straw (Berkeley: University of California Press,
forthcoming).
B. Articles:
“The Avenging
Abbot: Gregory’s Life of St.
Benedict” for a Festschrift for Robert Brentano, edited by Jason Glen.
“Gregory I, “The Great” Encyclopedia
Britannica (to appear).
"A
Very Special Death: Christian Martyrdom
in its Classical Context," in Sacrificing the Self: Perspectives on Martyrdom. Ed. Margaret Cormack. Oxford University Press, 2002.
"Introduction: Gregory and the Book of Job." Grégoire le Grand, Moralia, 28-30. Sources Chrétiennes 000. Paris: Editions du Cerf, forthcoming 2002.
"Gregory
the Great," "Benedict of Nursia." A Guide to the Late Antique World. Eds. Peter Brown, Glen Bowersock, et
al. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.
"Gregory
the Great (Influence of Augustine on)," "Martyrdom." and
"Timor mortis." St.
Augustine through the Ages: an
Encyclopedia. Villanova: Villanova University Press, 1999.
"Martyrdom and Christian
Identity: Gregory I and
Tradition," The Limits of
Ancient Christianity: Essays on Late
Antique Thought and Culture in Honor of R.A. Markus. Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press, 1999.
Pp. 250-66.
"Gregory
I," Dictionary of the Papacy.
Greenwood Press, forthcoming 1999.
"Purity
and Death." Gregory the
Great: A Symposium. Notre Dame Studies in Theology 2. Notre Dame and London: University of Notre
Dame Press, 1997. Pp. 16-35.
"Gregory's
Politics: Theory and Practice," in
Gregorio Magno e il suo Tempo.
Rome: Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, 1991. 1:47-63.
"Cyprian
and MT 5:45: The Evolution of Christian
Patronage," Studia Patristica 18:3 (1989): 329-39.
“Adversitas
et Prosperitas: Une illustration du
motif structurel de la complémentarité."
Grégoire le Grand.
Eds. Jacques Fontaine, Robert
Gillet, and Stan Pellistrandi. Paris:
Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1986. Pp. 277-288.
"St.
Augustine as Pastoral Theologian: The
Exegesis of the Parables of the Field and Threshing Floor, " Augustinian
Studies 14 (1983): 129-51.
C. Reviews:
For Speculum, Church History, Augustinian Studies, The Catholic
Historical Review, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, The Journal of
Theological Studies, The Historian, The Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and
Envoi. Full list available upon
request.
CONFERENCE
PAPERS AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
“The Conquered Heart: Gregory’s Anatomy of Sin,” Bede and
Gregory. A Celebration of the
Eightieth Birthday of Paul Meyvaert.
Sponsored by the Harvard University Committee on Medieval Studies. Harvard University, November 10, 2001.
“Jerome’s Heroic Christianity:
The Virgin as Martyr.” Paper
read in absentia at the American Historical Association Convention,
Boston, January 5-8, 2001.
Interview
with Frank Browning for Morning Edition, National Public Radio. "The Millennial Body," aired
February 12 and 19, 2000.
With
Richard Lim, organization of "The World of Late Antiquity: The Challenge of New Historiographies,"
Conference at Smith College, October 15-17, 1999.
"The
Martyr's Triumph: Changing Agendas in
Martyrologies." Paper delivered in
absentia at the International Conference on Medieval Studies, Leeds, England,
July 12-17, 1998.
"John
Chrysostom: The Political Uses of
Martyrs' Lives." Paper for Antioch
in the Fourth Century. Conference at
Smith College, Northampton, MA, May 3, 1997.
"The
Identity Crisis of the Fourth Century."
Paper delivered at the American Historical Association Convention, New
York, NY, January 3-5, 1997.
"Christians
and Pagans: Cultural Competition and
Co-option." Paper delivered at
"From Antiquity to the Middle Ages," 22nd New England Medieval
Conference, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, Oct. 14-15, 1995.
"Early
Christian Martyrdom: The Sanctity of
the Will." Paper delivered at the
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, MO, December 9-11, 1993.
"Red
and White Martyrdom: Changing Arenas of
Competition." Paper delivered at
"Martyrdom: Past and
Present," Colloquium, Smith
College, Northampton, MA, October 3,
1993.
Interview
on martyrdom with Karen Dunbar Scully, WNNZ Radio, Springfield, MA, September
29, 1993.
"Purity
and Death." Paper delivered at
"Gregory the Great: A
Symposium." Notre Dame, IN, March
19-20, 1993.
"Death,
Will, and Sacrifice." Paper
delivered at the North American Patristics Society, Chicago, IL, May 29-31,
1992.
Commentator for Dennis Trout, "Cato's Legacy: Augustine, Rufinus, and the Suicide of Nicomachus
Flavianus." Paper delivered at the
New England Ancient History Colloquium, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, Fall
1992.
"Better-Off
Dead." Paper delivered at the New
England Ancient History Collquium, Smith College, Northampton, MA, March 24,
1992.
"Gregory's
Views on Death." Guest seminar at
the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, March 5, 1992.
"Gregory
the Great: The Conflict between
Politics and Morals," Paper
delivered at the Eleventh International Conference on Patristic Studies,
Oxford, England, August 19-24, 1991.
"Gregory's
Politics: Theory and
Practice." Paper delivered at the
Conference, "Gregorio Magno e il suo Tempo," sponsored by the
Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, Rome, Italy, May 9-12, 1990.
"Gregory's
Political Theology: The Sacrifice of
Power." Paper presented at the
Spring meeting of the American Society of Church History, Fort Collins, CO,
April 19-21, 1990.
"Martyrdom
Reconsidered." Paper presented at
a joint session of the American Historical Association and the American Society
of Church History, San Francisco, California, December 28, 1989.
"Mirror
Images of Reform: The Bishop as
Patron." Paper presented at a
joint session of the Five College Byzantine and Late Antique Seminar, and
Byzantine Studies Conference, UMASS, Amherst, MA, October 27, 1989.
"The
Physiology of Sin and Suffering."
Paper presented at the North American Patristics Society Conference,
Chicago, IL, May 18, 1985.
"Cyprian
and Mt. 5:45: Images of Authority and Community," Paper delivered at the
Ninth International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford, England, September
8, 1983.
"Adversitas
et Prosperitas: Une illustration du
motif structurel de la complémentarité."
Paper delivered at the Colloque International du C.N.R.S., Chantilly,
France, September 1982.
"Augustine's
Ambiguity and Gregory's Ambivalence:
The Contrasting Structural Patterns of their Similar Theologies,"
Paper delivered at the North American Patristics Society Conference, Chicago,
IL, May 1981.
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Consulting on manuscripts for the presses
at Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of California, and the Journal
of Early Christian Studies.
WORKS IN
PROGRESS
Heroic
Christianity: from
Clement to Augustine.
“Gregory, the Miraculous, and the
Mediterranean Milieu,” for “Gregorio Magno e la cultura del mondo mediterraneo,” Conference at the Accademia dei Lincei,
Rome, October 23-24 2003.
An article
on Gregory and the Three Chapters Controversy for a volume on the development
of orthodoxy edited by Celia Chazelle.
Revision of
article on Jerome for publication.
TEACHING
POSITIONS
Assistant to
Associate Professor, Mount Holyoke College, 1980-to present. Ancient, Late Antiquity, and Medieval
History.
Harper
Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago, 1979-80. Western Civilization.
Acting
Instructor, University of California, Berkeley, 1978-9. Late Antiquity.
Teaching
Assistant, University of California, Berkeley, l974-6. Medieval and Ancient.
SELECT
COURSES:
Ancient
Survey
Medieval
Survey
Medieval
Church
Medieval
Monasticism
Late
Antiquity
Ancient Rome
Bonds of
Intimacy (Social History of Ancient Greece)
Death, Life,
and Love
Martyrdom as
Social Protest
HONORS
[The John
Nicholas Brown Prize from the Medieval Academy of America, 1992, awarded for
best first book.]
American
Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1991
National
Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1990-91
American
Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant, 1990
Mount
Holyoke Faculty Grant, 1982
Sloan
Foundation, 1982
Harper
Fellowship at the University of Chicago, 1979-80
Una's Travel
Fellowship (to Rome), 1978-9
Kent
Fellowship, 1976-9
Phi Beta
Kappa Graduate Fellowship, 1977-8
Mabelle
McLeod Lewis Fellowship, 1976-7
Regents'
Fellowship, 1972-4
Heller
Graduate Fellowship, 1972-3
Faculty
Seminar Award, 1972
Una's
Fellowship, 1971-2
LANGUAGES
Reading
knowledge of Latin, Greek, French, German, and Italian.
PROFESSIONAL
MEMBERSHIPS
The American
Association of University Women
The American
Historical Association
The American
Society of Church History
The Medieval
Academy of America
The North
American Patristics Society
The Italian
Historical Society
REFERENCES
Robert
Brentano
Department
of History
University
of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
94720
Peter Brown
Department
of History
129
Dickinson Hall
Princeton
University
Princeton,
NJ 08544
Gerard
Caspary
Department
of History
University
of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
94720
Robert A.
Markus (Professor Emeritus of the University of Nottingham)
100 Park
Road
Chilwell
Beeston
Nottingham,
NG9 4DE
England
Paul
Meyvaert
President
Emeritus
The Medieval
Academy of America
1430
Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge,
MA 02138