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CXII. Dr Christa Gray "Jerome's Life of Malchus: a Translation and Commentary"

Dr Christa Gray is a scholar of early Christian Latin literature, specialising in the works of Jerome of Stridon (c. AD 347–420). Her research explores how fourth-century Latin Christian authors engaged with the style, rhetoric, and ideas of earlier non-Christian texts, and how their intellectual backgrounds shaped the development of Latin on the path toward the Middle Ages. Her commentary on Jerome’s Life of Malchus was published in February 2015, and she is currently preparing a companion volume on Jerome’s Life of Hilarion. She argues that these “biographies” are highly engaging literary works that deserve far wider recognition. To further investigate this genre, she co-edited, with James Corke-Webster (King’s College London), a collection of essays examining late antique and later Christian saints’ lives from literary rather than primarily historical or theological perspectives. She also incorporates late antique narratives about saints into her teaching at the University of Reading. As a Research Associate on the Fragments of the Republican Roman Orators project at the University of Glasgow, Dr Gray has studied the transmission of information about Roman Republican public speech in contemporary and later sources. In this context she co-edited two academic volumes: Roman Republican Institutions and Ideology (with Catherine Steel and Henriette van der Blom, Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Reading Republican Oratory: Reconstructions, Contexts, Reception (with Andrea Balbo, Richard Marshall, and Catherine Steel, Oxford University Press, 2018).