Research and teaching interests
Early Christian literary genres, especially homilies, letters, hagiographies, and ecclesiastical histories; post-Chalcedonian christology; mariology; text editions.
Publications
Recent publications include works on Maximus Confessor, Severus of Antioch, Theodoret of Cyrrhus, Sophronius of Jerusalem, and martyr homilies.
Educational background
BA (University of Queensland); BA, BA (Honours) and MA (Honours) (University of New England); Diploma in Middeleeuwse Studies (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven); D. Phil. (University of Oxford); Stipendiatin Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung; Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities.
News
Will deliver the Annual A.D. Trendall Memorial Lecture in 2005.
Invited participant in Summer Workshop 2006 - Centre for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC.
Workshop topic: The Consolation Genre in the Western Tradition. Approaches to Mortality and Mourning from Homwer to the Rennaissance.
My topic: The Letters of Theodoret of Cyrrhus
Links
AIEP, Augustinianum, AABS, Australian Academy of the Humanities.