Scott Fitzgerald Johnson

Scott Johnson is an historian of the ancient and medieval worlds. His research specialty concerns the language, literature, and religions of the eastern Mediterranean during Late Antiquity (c. 200-700). He works primarily on Greek, Syriac, Coptic, and Latin texts. He has written a book on the fifth-century Greek *Life and Miracles of Thekla* (Harvard University Press, 2006); has edited a book on *Greek Literature in Late Antiquity* (Ashgate, 2006); has translated the *Miracles of Thekla* for the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library (Harvard University Press, 2012); and has edited the *Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity* (Oxford University Press, 2012). In addition to a translation of a Syriac poem by Jacob of Sarug (Gorgias, 2013), he has edited a volume on the role of Greek among eastern Christians in the late antique Middle East (Ashgate, 2015). His book *Literary Territories: Cartographical Thinking in Late Antiquity* (Oxford University Press, 2016), concerns the role of maps, travel, and cosmology in the imaginations of late antique authors. Most recently he has co-edited an anthology of Syriac texts in translation — *Invitation to Syriac Christianity* (University of California Press, 2022) — and a book on the role of Eastern Christianity in Byzantine thought and culture — *Worlds of Byzantium* (Cambridge University Press, 2024).