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.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Historical Studies

Degrees

Yale University
Ph.D.
2008