Scott Fitzgerald Johnson

A native of Atlanta, Georgia, I graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1999 with a BA in Classical Languages. I then went to Oxford to do, first, a M.Phil. in Classics (2001), then a D.Phil. in Classics (2005). While at Oxford I was supervised by Prof. Averil Cameron. I also studied Syriac with Dr. Sebastian Brock and spent much of my time with the vibrant community of patristic, Byzantine, and eastern Christian scholars. Upon leaving Oxford I took up a junior fellowship in the Society of Fellows at Harvard from 2004 to 2007. While there I taught for one year in the Classics department, before taking a position (also in Classics) at Washington and Lee University (2007–2009). I spent a two-year junior sabbatical in Washington, DC, first as a Fellow in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks (2009–2010) and next as a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress (2010–2011). In the fall of 2011 I took up my current position as a Teaching Fellow in Byzantine Greek at Dumbarton Oaks and Georgetown University. My research concerns the language, literature, and religions of the eastern Mediterranean during Late Antiquity. I work primarily on Greek, Syriac, Coptic, and Latin material, but I have also studied Hebrew, Jewish Aramaic, Sanskrit, and Armenian. I have written a book on the fifth-century Greek *Life and Miracles of Thekla* (HUP, 2006); have edited a book on *Greek Literature in Late Antiquity* (Ashgate, 2006); have translated the *Miracles of Thekla* for the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library (HUP, 2012); and have most recently edited the *Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity* (OUP, 2012). Following upon published articles on travel and geography in eastern Christianity, I am currently writing a book on multilingualism and religious boundaries among various Christian groups in the late antique East. At Georgetown I teach classes in the Classics department on Byzantine literature, culture, and language. I live in Bethesda, Maryland, with my wife, Carol, and my three children, Susanna, Daniel, and Thomas.