Past Member
Paul Chandler Dilley
Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship funded by the American Council of Learned Societies
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of study
Religions of Late Antiquity
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Paul Chandler Dilley will explore six late antique biographies of monastic saints—including repentant prostitutes, adulterers, and cross-dressing abbots—that adapt comic routines from Greco-Roman theatrical mime. These texts form a carnivalesque subgenre that engages therapeutically with prohibited emotions and thoughts to address tensions in early monasticism.
Visits
Member
School of Historical Studies
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Degrees
Yale University
Ph.D.
2008
