Before me as I write lies a book — or should I call it a relic? Augustine’s Confessions in the Oxford paperback edition, translated by Henry Chadwick. There are layers of different notes in the margins — black ink next to blue ink next to pencil, marking my changing thoughts over more than 20 years. […]

Author Archives: Dawn Lavalle Norman
Dawn LaValle Norman is a Research Fellow at Australian Catholic University's Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry and an associate member of ACU's Gender and Women's History Centre. She is the recipient of a Discovery Early Career Research Award for the project 'The Female Voice in Ancient Philosophical Dialogues' (2022-2024). She writes on the literature of Late Antiquity, with a special interest in gender. She has written The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature: Methodius of Olympus' Symposium and the Crisis of the Third Century (Cambridge University Press 2019) and edited Hypatia of Alexandria: Her Context and Legacy (Mohr Siebeck 2020). She is currently writing two books on the history of women in ancient philosophy.
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