Paul Chandler Dilley Assistant Professor of Classics and Religious Studies University of Iowa

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1 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Paul Chandler Dilley Assistant Professor of Classics and Religious Studies University of Iowa Assistant Professor of Classics and Religious Studies, Working Group in Digital Humanities, University of Iowa (August 2011-present) Assistant Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, History and Religious Studies, and Jewish Studies, The Pennsylvania State University (August 2009-July 2011) Visiting Scholar, University of Sydney (May-July 2009; May-July 2010) Assistant Professor of History, Kansas State University (August 2008-May 2009) EDUCATION Ph.D. Religious Studies, Yale University (2008) Dissertation: The Care of the Other in Ancient Monasticism: A Cultural History of Ascetic Guidance. A study of spiritual direction from the perspective of social and cultural history. Advisor: Prof. Bentley Layton. M.A. Classics, Yale University (2007) Exams in Greek and Latin poetry and prose, ancient history, and papyrology. École Pratique des Hautes Études ( ) Attended a seminar on Late Antique religion with Prof. Michel Tardieu at the Collège de France. M.A., M.Phil. Religious Studies, Yale University (2002, 2005) Exams in New Testament, Second-Temple Judaism, Graeco-Roman religion, gender studies, early Christian theology, and the history of Christianity to 700. Humboldt Universität zu Berlin ( ) Private tutorials on Gnosticism and Manicheism with Prof. Hans-Martin Schenke. A. B. Comparative Study of Religion, Harvard University, Magna cum laude with highest honors ( ). Allied Field: Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Senior Thesis Advisor: Prof. Karen King. Stuyvesant High School, New York City, Regents Diploma (1996) 1

2 AWARDS AND HONORS Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Renewal Fellowship (June 2011) Africana Research Center Grant, to develop the digital humanities online project, Ancient Nubia: An Interactive Topography (2010) Ken Forster Memorial Award for Excellence in Research and Teaching, Penn State University (2010) American Philosophical Society Franklin Grant (Summer 2009) Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant ( ) Award of $360,000 for the edition and study of the Manichaean Kephalaia codex at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, using digital imaging technology; with Professors Iain Gardner and Jason BeDuhn. Dumbarton Oaks Fellowship (Declined) ( ) American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) Fellowship ( ) Dissertation research and field work in Egypt. Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation ( ) Dissertation writing and research; for topics involving religious studies or ethics. Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities, Yale University (Declined) ( ) Yale s most prestigious dissertation fellowship. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Renewal Fellowship (Summer 2006) Host: Professor Stephen Emmel, Westfälische-Wilhelms Universität, Münster. Jacob K. Javits Fellowship in the Humanities ( ) Federal government scholarship, funds four years of graduate study; awarded to two students in Religious Studies in Giamatti Fellowship, Yale University ( ) Awarded to one entering student in each department at Yale. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, German Chancellor Fellowship ( ) Awarded to ten Americans under thirty for a year of research in Germany. Host: Professor Hans-Gebhard Bethge, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Hoopes Prize, Harvard University (2000) Awarded to outstanding senior theses. 2

3 Thesis: The Interaction of the Oral and the Visual in the Early Christian Revelation Dialogue. Advisor: Professor Karen King. Phi Beta Kappa, Summer Research Grant, Harvard University (1999) Senior thesis research. PUBLICATIONS Articles: Religious Intercrossing in Late Antique Eurasia: Fragmentation, Corruption, and Written Canons, in Journal of World History (Accepted). The Invention of Christian Tradition: Apocrypha, Imperial Policy, and Anti- Jewish Propaganda, in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 50.4 (2010): Christian Icon Practice in Apocryphal Literature: Consecration and the Conversion of Synagogues into Churches, in Journal of Roman Archaeology 23 (2010): Dipinti in Late Antiquity and Shenoute s Monastic Federation: Text and Image in the Paintings of the Red Monastery, in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 165 (2008): Book Contributions: The Chester Beatty Kephalaia Project (with Iain Gardner and Jason BeDuhn), in Proceedings of the Seventh Conference of the International Association of Manichaean Studies, ed. Siegfried Richter (Leiden: Brill). Forthcoming. Letter to a Holy Man with Prayer, in Koptische dokumentarische und literarische Texte, ed. Monika Hasitzka, Corpus Papyrorum Raineri 31 (Berlin: DeGruyter, 2011), Talking about the Soul and its Ascent in the Dialogue of the Savior, in Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Coptic Studies, Leiden, 27 August 2 September 2000, ed. Mat Immerzeel and Jacques van der Vliet (Leuven: Peeters, 2004), Analysis of various images of the Great Altar of Pergamon in The Cities of Paul: Images and Interpretations from the Harvard New Testament Archaeology Project, ed. Helmut Koester (Fortress, CD-ROM, 2004) 3

4 Book Reviews: Review of Hannah M. Cotton, Robert Hoyland, Jonathan Price, and David Wasserstein, eds., From Hellenism to Islam: Cultural and Linguistic Change in the Roman Near East. Classical Review 60 (2010): Review of Hans-Josef Klauck, The Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles: An Introduction. Review of Biblical Literature ( 9/4/2009) Review of Augustine Casiday, Frederick W. Norris, eds., The Cambridge History of Christianity: Volume 2, Constantine to c Review of Biblical Literature ( 8/16/2009) Review of Maria-Zoe Petropoulou s Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Greek Religion, Judaism, and Christianity, 100 BC to AD 200. Bryn Mawr Classical Review (bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/ html) Review of Nicola Denzey s The Bone Gatherers: The Lost Worlds of Early Christian Women. Review of Biblical Literature ( 11/26/08) Review of Jennifer Hevelone-Harper s Disciples of the Desert: Monks, Laity, and Spiritual Authority in Sixth-Century Gaza. Journal of Early Christian Studies 14 (2006) 2: WORK IN PROGRESS Book Manuscript: Care of the Other in Ancient Monasticism: A Cultural History of Ascetic Guidance (requested for review by Cambridge University Press) Articles Under Review: Conversion as Trauma in Early Christianity Egyptian Religion and the Roots of Gnosticism Book Contributions Under Contract: Textual Aesthetics in the Paintings of the Red Monastery Church; Prosopography; Inscriptions (Greek); and Inscriptions (Coptic); in Elizabeth Bolman, ed., The Red Monastery Church: Magnificence and Asceticism in Upper Egypt (American Research Center in Egypt Publications) 4

5 In Progress (selected): Introduction, in Sebastian Brock, ed. and trans., The Martyrs of Tur Ber ayn (to be published in The Acts of the Persian Martyr Series, Gorgias Press) The Collection of the Qur ān in its Late Antique Context TEACHING EXPERIENCE The Pennsylvania State University: Courses: Doctoral Seminar on Religion in the Roman World (Spring 2011); Introduction to Early Christianity (Spring 2011); On-Site Study Seminar in Egypt (Winter 2010); Honors Seminar on Martyrdom and Noble Death in Comparative Perspective (Fall 2010); First-Year Seminar on Sacred Space and the Synagogue in the Ancient World (Fall 2010); Ancient Monotheisms: Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, Islam (Spring 2009); Later Greek Literature (Spring 2009); Ancient Mediterranean Religions (Fall 2009); Introduction to the New Testament and Early Christianity (Fall 2009). Undergraduate Advising: Individual Study on the Historical Jesus (Spring 2009); Senior Honors Thesis on Early Christian Baptism in its Graeco-Roman Context (Fall-Spring 2010); Individual Study on Early Christian Doctrine and Scriptural Interpretation (Spring 2011). Graduate Advising: MA Exam (08/2010) and Comprehensive Exam (08/2011), Brad Hendricks (CAMS/Ancient History); Comprehensive Exam (07/2010), Matthew Isner (Art History); MA exam Committee, Stefan Hodges-Kluck (4/2011). Kansas State University: Courses: Graduate Seminar on Theories of Religion (Spring 2009); Ancient Roman History and Culture (Spring 2009); Ancient Egyptian Religion (Winter 2009); Ancient Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Fall 2008); Ancient Greek History and Culture (Fall 2008). Undergraduate Advising: Individual Study on Later Latin Literature (Spring 2009) Yale University: Part-time Acting Instructor, Later Latin Literature (Fall 2005); Teaching Fellow, Islam and Fundamentalism (Spring 2005); Teaching Fellow, Introduction to World Religions (Fall 2004); Part-time Acting Instructor, Introduction to Coptic (Fall 2003-Spring 2004) 5

6 LANGUAGES Expertise: Greek, Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Old Nubian. Proficiency: Classical Hebrew, Classical Arabic, Classical Armenian, Middle Iranian. Modern: German (advanced proficiency), French (proficiency), Egyptian Colloquial Arabic (basic proficiency). FIELD WORK Epigraphist, Red Monastery Project, Sohag, Egypt (2003-present) Project funded by ARCE and USAID. Director: Elizabeth Bolman. This involves yearly travel to the site of the Red Monastery to record new inscriptions uncovered during each season of conserving the Late Antique wall paintings. Epigraphist and Papyrologist, White Monastery Federation Project, Sohag, Egypt ( ); Project funded by the NEH. Director: Elizabeth Bolman. Field Archaeologist, Yale Monastic Archaeology Project ( ); Project funded by Yale Egyptology Fund Grants, Dumbarton Oaks Project Grants, National Geographic Society Research and Exploration Grant. Director: Stephen Davis. Field School, Caesarea Maritima, Israel (Summer 1998) PRESENTATIONS Invited: New Light on Manichaeism: The Chester Beatty Kephalaia, at the Berlin- Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (June 2011) The Religions of Late-Antique Eurasia in Contact: Mani on Fragmentation, Adulteration, and Written Canons, at New York University (February 2010) Reconsidering the Connections of Gnosticism with Egyptian Religion, at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia (May 2009) Conferences: Reconsidering the Connections of Gnosticism with Egyptian Religion, at the Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism Seminar, Yale University (May 2011) The Vision of the Martyr Mihr-Narse in the Context of Late Antique Iranian Religions, at the 7 th World Syriac Conference, Kerala, India (September 2010) 6

7 Apocalypticism and the Fear of God in Ancient Christianity, panel presentation at the 20 th World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, University of Toronto (August 2010) Codicology, Paleography, and Philology of the Dublin Kephalaia, panel presentation at the 7 th Conference of the International Association of Manichaean Studies, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin (September 2009) The Invention of Christian Tradition: Apocrypha, Imperial Policy, and Anti- Jewish Propaganda, at the Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism seminar, Université Laval, Canada (March 2009) The Reception of the Law in Early Christianity, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting (November 2008) The Invention of Christian Tradition: Women, Icons, and the Consecration of Churches, Society of Biblical Literature/American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Diego (November 2007) Hagiography, Commemoration, and the Ritual Production of Kinship, Society of Biblical Literature/American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Diego (November 2007) Digraphia in Late Antique Egypt, American Philological Association Annual Meeting, San Diego (January 2007) Stagirius and the Trauma of Conversion, Society of Biblical Literature/ American Academy of Religion, Washington, DC (November 2006) Synagogue-to-Church Conversions and the Archaeology of Judaeo-Christian Hybridity, Society of Biblical Literature/American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (November 2006) Theotokos Icons and the Politics of Monumental Conversion after the Council of Ephesus, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (May 2006) An Overview of Coptic Papyrology, International Association of Coptic Studies, Paris (June 2004) A Late-Antique Christian Amulet in the Beinecke Library, American Philological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco (January 2004) Response to Professor Karen King, Harvard University, What is Gnosticism? at Harvard-Yale-Brown Day, New Haven, (April 2003) 7

8 SEMINARS Philosophy at the Roots of Christianity, University of Copenhagen (August 30- September 2, 2006) Master and Disciple: The Transmission of Knowledge in Religious Cultures, International Seminar at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (July 9-14, 2006) Vatican Program in Spoken Latin, Rome (June-July 2002) ACADEMIC SERVICE AND MEMBERSHIPS Referee for Shifting Frontiers IX: Shifting Political Frontiers in Late Antiquity, International Conference at Penn State University, June (2011) Referee for Research Grants Council of Hong Kong ( ) Referee for monograph series American Studies in Papyrology (2008) American Philological Association (2002-Present) American Society of Papyrologists (2002-Present) International Association of Manichaean Studies (2007-present) International Association of Coptic Studies (2002-present) North American Patristics Society (2007-present) Society of Biblical Literature/American Academy of Religion (1999-Present) WORK EXPERIENCE Graduate Affiliate, Saybrook College, Yale University ( ) Intern, World Monuments Fund, New York City (2004) Assistant to Curator of Ancient Manuscripts, Beinecke Library ( ) Editor-in-Chief, Let s Go Germany 2001 (2000) Editor, Harvard Lampoon ( ) Poetry Editor, Harvard Advocate ( ) 8