Bronwen Neil

Bronwen Neil is the Burke Senior Lecturer in Ecclesiastical Latin at ACU Brisbane, and acting director of the Centre for Early Christian Studies in first semester, 2012. In the eleven years since she received her doctorate from Australian Catholic University, Dr Neil has made significant achievements in the study of early Christian history. Her publications reflect a rare command of a broad range of areas, including Greek and Latin text edition, Byzantine theology, the cult of martyrs, hagiography and bishops of Rome in the fourth to ninth centuries. An Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship (2001-2005) resulted in a monograph published by Brepols in the new series Studia Antiqua Australiensia (2006). In 2009 Dr Neil published Leo the Great in the Routledge series The Early Church Fathers. Dr Neil’s expertise has been recognised by invitations to contribute various chapters to books and Festschriften and several articles to encyclopediae and dictionaries, including Encyclopedia of Biblical Reception (vols. 2 and 3, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2011) and the forthcoming Dictionary of Late Antiquity (Oxford University Press). She is currently completing a book (with P. Allen) on Crisis Management in Late Antiquity: The Evidence of Episcopal Letters, and another on the letters of Pope Gelasius I (492-496).