Gregory Peter Fewster
Postdoctoral Fellow
- Antiquity and Early Christian Studies
- Gregory.P.Fewster@mf.no
- Office: 427
- Phone number: 22590553
My research investigates the religious and textual cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, focusing especially on authorship and pseudepigraphy, letters, the Pauline corpus, papyrology, ancient philology, and the acquisition and interpretation of manuscripts in the modern period. At MF, I am working on a new project "Beyond the Religion of the Book: Epistolary Forms and New Textual Authorities in Graeco-Roman Intellectual Culture" that asks how letters and letter-collections -- especially those of Paul and Apollonius of Tyana -- began to be received as literature during the long second century (96-235 CE). I have a book under contract with McGill-Queen's University Press, entitled "The Authentic Pauline corpus: Critical Scholarship and the Making of a Christian Book," which derives from my PhD dissertation at the University of Toronto. Most recently, I completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto's Department of Classics, where I catalogued, digitized, and conserved a collection of Greek documentary papyri at the Royal Ontario Museum.
Education and practice
2020 - 2022
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Classics, University of Toronto
2020 - 2022
Departmental Associate, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada
2014 - 2019
PhD, Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto
Voluntary position
2021 - d.d.
Board Member at Large, North American Society for the Study of Christian Apocryphal Literature (NASSCAL)
2020 - 2021
Coordinator, Bridging Disciplines in Manuscript Studies - Jackman Humanities Institute Working Group, University of Toronto