Notes on Contributors
Carson Bay
Ph.D. (2018), Florida State University, is Program Manager of the Office of National & International Scholarships & Fellowships, and Part-Time Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, ga. He also serves as Academic Coordinator for the “Interactive Histories, Co-Produced Religions” project at the Institute for Advanced Studies – Princeton and the University of Bern, Switzerland. He has published several articles on Josephus and the Latin Josephus tradition, as well as Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity: The Historiography, Exemplarity, and Anti-Judaism of Pseudo-Hegesippus (Cambridge, 2023).
Susan B. Edgington
is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London. Her primary interest is in the First Crusade and the early years of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, and she has edited and translated a number of texts related to the period, most importantly Albert of Aachen, Historia Ierosolimitana (Oxford, 2007). She has also published a biography of Baldwin i of Jerusalem, 1100–1118 (Routledge, 2019).
Anthony Ellis
Ph.D. (2013), is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Bern. His research interests include ancient Greek religion, the history of emotions, forgery, and the reception of Josephus. He’s currently finishing a book on the jealousy of the gods in Greek and Hebrew literature and their reception in Christian, Jewish, and Pagan Late Antiquity.
Paul Hilliard
Ph.D. (2008), University of Cambridge, is an associate professor and department chair of Church History at the University of Saint Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary. His research interests are on early medieval intellectual history, especially the writing of the Venerable Bede. His most recent article ‘Bede’s Martyrology: a resource and spiritual lesson’ can be found in P. Darby and M. MacCarron, eds., Bede the Scholar (Manchester, UK, 2023).
Karen Kletter
currently holds the Mclean Endowed Chair in the History Department of Methodist University in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Her research interests are
She has written about the medieval reception of Josephan material most recently in her essay “The Christian Reception of Josephus in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages” in the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Josephus (2016).
Justin Lake
Ph.D. (2008), Harvard University, is an Associate Professor of Classics at Texas A&M University, College of Arts & Sciences. He specializes in Medieval Latin literature (particularly the historical literature of the Early and High Middle Ages), medieval rhetoric and grammar, and classical reception in the Middle Ages.
Richard Matthew Pollard
Ph.D. (2009), University of Cambridge, is professeur at the Université du Québec à Montréal (uqam). He is the editor of Imagining the Medieval Afterlife (Cambridge, 2020), and co-author of Codex epistolaris Carolinus (Liverpool, 2021). At uqam, he leads the Latin Josephus Project (
Graeme Ward
Ph.D. (2014), University of Cambridge, is a visiting researcher at the University of Tübingen. He has published on various aspects of Carolingian intellectual culture, including History, Scripture, and Authority in the Carolingian Empire: Frechulf of Lisieux (Oxford, 2022).
Julian Yolles
Ph.D. (2015), Brepols Publishers, is Publishing Manager for Corpus Christianorum. He has published articles, translations, and a monograph on Latin literary culture in the medieval Levant, including Making the East Latin: The Latin Literature of the Levant in the Era of the Crusades (Harvard, MA, 2022).