Blake Leyerle

Associate Professor
Department of Theology
Department of Classics

Degrees

B.A., Yale University; M.A., Ph.D., Duke University

Research Profile

Blake Leyerle's scholarly specialization lies in the social history of early Christianity. She has published on a wide range of topics in the Journal of Early Christian Studies, Harvard Theological Review, the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, the Journal of Religion and various edited volumes. Her book Theatrical Shows and Ascetic Lives: John Chrysostom's Attack on Spiritual Marriage was published by the University of California Press in 2001. She has served as Section co-chair in the American Academy of Religion and in the Society of Biblical Literature and holds memberships in the North American Patristics Society and the American Society of Church Historians. She has won a Kaneb Teaching Award, two multi-year collaborative grants, and a Henry Luce III fellowship in Theology. Leyerle is now working on a book-length study of pilgrimage, tentatively entitled, Traveling Space: Theorizing Early Christian Pilgrimage.

 

Contact Information

444 Malloy Hall
631-7090
leyerle.1@nd.edu