Books:

• Virgins of God. The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity. Oxford Classical Monograph Series. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994; Paperback, 1996, re-ed. 1999, 2003, e-book 2006).
• Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church: Emperor Julian, Gregory of Nazianzus, and the Vision of Rome. Berkeley: UC Press, forthcoming 2010/11.
• A Short History of Ancient Christianity. With Rebecca Lyman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011/12 (under contract).

Co-edited Books:

• The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Christianity. Ed. Susanna Elm and Rebecca Lyman.
• Cambridge University Press, under contract.
• Quo Vadis Medical Healing. Past Concepts and New Approaches. Ed. Susanna Elm and Stefan Willich. International Library of Ethics, Law and the New Medicine 44. New York: Springer, 2009.
• Violence in Late Antiquity: Perceptions and Practices. Ed. H. Drake and co-ed. E. Albu, S. Elm, M. Maas, C. Rapp, M. Salzman. London: Ashgate, 2006.
• Medical Challenges for the New Millennium - An Interdisciplinary Task. Ed. Stefan N.
• Willich and Susanna Elm. New York/Amsterdam: Kluver, 2001.
• Orthodoxie, christianisme, histoire-Orthodoxy, Christianity, History. Ed. Susanna Elm, Éric Rebillard and Antonella Romano. Collection de l’École française de Rome 270.
• Rome: École française de Rome, 2000; e-book 2007.
• The “Holy Man” Revisited (1971-1997): Charisma, Texts, and Communities in Late Antiquity. Ed. Susanna Elm and Naomi Janowitz. Special Issue Journal of Early Christian Studies 6: 3 (1998).

Articles:

• “Church- Festival-Temple: Reimagining Civic Topography in Late Antiquity,” In City-Empire Christendom, Ed. Claudia Rapp, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
• “Waiting for Theodosius, or The Ascetic and the City: Gregory of Nazianzus on Maximus the Philosopher,” in Festschrift Philip Rousseau, ed. Blake Leyerle and Robin Darling Young. Duke University Press, forthcoming.
• “Emperors and Priests: Gregory of Nazianzus’ Theodosius and the Macedonians (Basil I, Photius, and Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus)” in Festschrift Frederick Norris, Ed. Christopher Beely,Yale University press, forthcoming. “Die persona des Senators in der Kaiserzeit: Plinius’ Bithynien und Tacitus’ Britannien,” submitted to Phoenix.
• “Wandering Bishops,” In: Movements of People in Late Antiquity, ed. Neil McLynn, forthcoming.
• “Paul as seen by Gregory of Nazianzus: Some Aspects of his Greek Antiochene and Syrian Nachleben,” in Paolo letto da Oriente. Ed. F. Bonaghi and E. Virginio. Studi Francescani Orientali (with Arabic translation). Milan: Edizioni Terrae Sanctae, 2010, 109-118.
• “Translating Culture: Gregory of Nazianzus, Hellenism, and the Claim to Romanitas,” in Intermedien: Zur kulturellen und artistischen Dynamik. Ed. Alexandra Kleihues, Barbara Naumann, Edgar Pankow. Zürich: Chronos Verlag, 2010, 17-26.
• “Gregory of Nazianzus’ “Life” of Julian Revisited (Or. 4 and 5): Divine Decree and Imperial Enactment,” in From the Tetrarchs to Theodosius. The Long Fourth Century. Festschrift John F. Matthews, ed. Scott McGill, Cristiana Sogno and EdwardWatts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 169-180.
• “Roman Pain and the Rise of Christianity,” in Quo Vadis Medical Healing: Past Concepts and New Approaches. Ed. Susanna Elm and Stefan Willich. New York: Springer, 2009.
• “Family Men. Masculinity and Philosophy in Late Antiquity,” in Transformations of late Antiquity. Festschrift Peter Brown. Ed. Philip Rousseau and Manolis Papoutsakis, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008, 1-42.
• “Gregory’s Women: Creating a Philosopher’s Family,” in Gregory of Nazianzus: Images and Reflections. Ed. Jostein Børtnes and Tomas Hägg. Oslo: Oslo University Press, 2006, 171-191.

• “Captive Crowds: Pilgrims and Martyrs,” in CROWDS. Ed. Jeffrey T. Schnapp and M. Tiews, Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2006, 133-148.
• “A response,” Reconsiderations. Augustine and his Time. Ed. W. Fitzgerald. Villanova University Press, 2005, 16-21.
• “Marking the Self in Late Antiquity: Inscriptions, Baptism and the Conversion of Mimes,” in: Stigmata. Poetiken der Körperinschrift. Ed. Bettine Menken and Barbara Vinken. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2004, e-book 2009, 47-68.
• “‘Oh Paradoxical Fusion:’ Gregory of Nazianzus on Baptism and Cosmology (Or. 38-40),” in: Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions. Ed. R. A. Boustan and A.Y. Reed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, 617-657.
• “Hellenism and Historiography: Gregory of Nazianzus and Julian in Dialogue,” Journal of Early Medieval Europe 33: 3, Special issue honoring Elizabeth A. Clark, 2003, 493-515; Italian version, “Ellenismo e Storiografia. Giuliano emperore e Gregorio Nazianzeno,” in Societá e cultura nella tarda antichitá, Ed. A. Marcone. Florence: Le Monier, 2004, 58- 76; reprint in The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies: Gender, Asceticism, and Historiography. Ed. Dale Martin, Patricia Cox Miller. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005.
• “Historiographic Identities. Julian, Gregory of Nazianzus and the Forging of Orthodoxy,” JAC/ZAC 7 (2003): 249-266.
• “Inscriptions and Conversions. Gregory of Nazianzus on Baptism (or. 38-40),” in Conversion in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Seeing and Believing. Ed. Kenneth Mills and Anthony Grafton. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2003, 1-35.
• “Orthodoxy and the True Philosophical Life: Julian and Gregory of Nazianzus.” Studia Patristica 37 (2001): 69-85. “Developments in Ancient Medicine-Models for Today’s Challenges? Contemporary Medicine and the Christianisation of the Roman Elite–a Parallel,” in Medical Challenges for the New Millenium - An Interdisciplinary Task. Ed. Stefan N. Willich and Susanna Elm. New York/Amsterdam: Kluver, 2001, 3-17.
• “The Diagnostic Gaze: Gregory of Nazianzus’ Theory of Orthodox Priesthood in his Oration 6
• “De pace” and 2 “Apologia de Fuga sua,” in: Orthodoxie, christianisme, histoire/ Orthodoxy, Christianity, History. Ed. Susanna Elm, Éric Rebillard and Antonella Romano. Rome: École française de Rome, 2000, 83-100.
• “A Programmatic Life: Gregory of Nazianzus’ Orations 42 and 43 and the Constantinopolitan Elites.” Arethusa 33 (2000): 411-427.
• “Inventing the Father of the Church: Gregory of Nazianzus’ “Farewell to the Bishops” (Or. 42) in its Historical Context,” in Vita Religiosa im Mittelalter. Ed. Franz Felten and Norbert Jaspert. Berlin: Dunker und Humblot, 1999, 3-20.
• „Sklave Gottes“ – Stigmata, Bischöfe und anti-häretische Propaganda im vierten Jahrhundert.“ Historische Anthropologie 8: 3 (1999): 345-363.
• “Der Asket als vir publicus. Die Bedeutung von Augustinus’ Konzept des Christus iustus et iustificans für den spätantiken Asketen als Bischof,” in: Recht, Macht, Gerechtigkeit. Ed. J. Mehlhausen. Veröffentlichungen der Wissenschaflichen Gesellschaft für Theologie. Gütersloh: Kaiser, 1999, 192-201.
• “The Dog that Did Not Bark: Doctrine and Patriarchal Authority in the Conflict between Theophilus of Alexandria and John Chrysostom of Constantinople,” in: Christian Origins I. Ed. L. Ayres and G. Jones. London: Routledge, 1998, 68-93.
• “Isis’ Loss: Gender, Dependence, and Ethnicity in Synesius’ De Providentia or Egyptian Tale.” Journal of Ancient Christianity 1 (1997): 96-115.
• “‘Schon auf Erden Engel:’ Einige Berkungen zu den Anfängen asketischer Gemeinschaften in Kleinasien.” Historia 45 (1996): 483-500.

• “The Polemical Use of Genealogies: Jerome’s Classification of Pelagius and Evagrius Ponticus” Studia Patristica 33 (1996): 311-318.
• “”Pierced by Bronze Needles:” Anti-Montanist Charges of Ritual Stigmatization in their Fourth- Century Context.” Journal of Early Christian Studies (Special Issue) 4: 4 (1996): 409- 439.
• “”Priests ... shall not make any cuttings in their flesh (Lev. 21: 5).” Graven Images 2 (1995): 36- 41.
• “Athanasius of Alexandria’s Letter to the Virgins - who was its intended audience?” in Ricerche Patristiche in onore di Dom Basil Studer OSB. Ed. V. Grossi and A. di Berardino. Augustianum 33. Rome: Institutum Patristicum Augustianum, 1993, 171-183.
• “Formen des Zusammenlebens männlicher und weiblicher Asketen im östlichen Mittelmeerraum während des vierten Jahrhunderts nach Christus,” in Doppelklöster und andere Formen der Symbiose männlicher und weiblicher Religiosen im Mittelalter. Ed. Kaspar Elm and Michel Parisse. Berliner Historische Studien 18; Ordensstudien 8. Berlin: Duncker and Humblot, 1992, 13-24.
• “Evagrius Ponticus’ Sententiae ad Virginem.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 45 (1991): 265-295.
• “Vergini, vedove, diaconisse - alcuni osservazioni sullo sviluppo dei cosidetti “ordini femminile’ nel quarto secolo in Oriente.” Codex Aquilarensis 5 (1991): 77-89.
• “The Sententiae ad Virginem by Evagrius Ponticus and the Problem of Early Monastic Rules.” Augustinianum 30 (1990): 393-404.
• “Perceptions of Jerusalem Pilgrimage as Reflected in Two Early Sources on Female Pilgrimage (3rd and 4th Century A.D.).” Studia Patristica 20 (1989): 219-223.
• “An Alleged Book-theft in Fourth Century Egypt: P. Lips. 43.” Studia Patristica 18 (1989): 209-215.

Book-Reviews:

• Hunter, D., Marriage, Celibacy, and Heresy in Ancient Christianity: the Jovinianist Controversy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, in JAC/ZAC 13 (2009): 545-548.
• Finn OP, R., Almsgiving in the Later Roman Empire. Christian Promotion and Practice (313— 450). Oxford/New York, Oxford University Press 2006, in Historische Zeitschrift 286 (2008): 458-459.
• Kahlos, M., Debate and dialogue: Christian and pagan cultures, c.360 – 430. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007, in Gymnasium (2008): 114-116.
• Bobertz, C.A. /Brakke, D. Ed., Reading in Christian Communities. Essays on Interpretation in the Early Church, Notre Dame 2002, in ZAC/JAC 8 (2004): 216-217.
• Burrus, V. The Sex lives of the Saints. An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography. University of Pennsylvania Press. 2004, in: Journal of Ecclesiastical History 56 (2005), 478.
• Clark, Elizabeth A. Reading Renunciation, in: Journal of the American Academy of Religion 71/1 (2003): 204-206.
• Urbainczyk, T., Theodoret of Cyrrhus. The Bishop and the Holy Man. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2002, in: Classical Review, forthcoming.
• McGuckin, J. Saint Gregory of Nazianzus. An Intellectual Biography. In: St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 46 (2002): 275-278.

• “Cumont’s Legacy.” Bonnet (C.), Motte (A.), (edd.) Les syncrétismes religieux das le monde Méditerranéen antique. Actes du Colloque International en l’honneur de Franz CUMONT à l’occasion du cinquantième anniversaire de sa mort. Rome, Academia Belgica, 25-27 septembre 1997, (Tournhout: Brepols, 1999), in: The Classical Review n.s. 51 (2001): 289-291.
• The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Essays on the Contribution of Peter Brown. Edited by James Howard-Johnston and Paul Antony Hayward. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), in: The Historian. 64 : 3-4 (2001): 831-832.
• Kimber Buell, D. Making Christians: Clement of Alexandria and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999), and Women and Christian Origins. Ed, R. Shepard Kraemer and Mary Rose D’Angelo. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), in: Classical Philology 96: 3 (2001): 309-316.

• “Sexual Education.” I. Stahlmann, Der gefesselte Sexus. Weibliche Keuschheit und Askese im Westen des Römischen Reiches. (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1997), in: The Classical Review N.S. 50 (2000): 537-540.
• Grimm, V.L. From Feasting to Fasting, the Evolution of a Sin. (London: Routledge, 1996): Scripta Classica Hebraica 8 (1998): 238-240.
• Haines-Eitzen, Kim, Guardians of Letters. Literacy, Power, and the Transmitters of Early Christian Literature. in: Classical Review.
• Brakke, D. Athanasius and the Politics of Asceticism. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995), in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 7 (1996): 6-10.
• Trevett, C. Montanism: Gender, Authority, and the New Prophecy. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), Theological Studies (1998).
• Durliat, J. De la ville antique à la ville byzantine. Le problème des subsistances (Collection de l’École française de Rome 136; Rome, 1990) in: Speculum 68 (1993): 1107-1110.

• Wilfred Griggs, C. Early Egyptian Christianity from its Origins to 451 C.E., (Coptic Studies 2, Leiden: Brill, 1990), in: Journal of the American Oriental Society 112 (1992) 490-491.

• Countryman, W., Dirt, Greed and Sex. Sexual Ethics in the New Testament and their Implications for Today, Philadelphia 1988, for the G.T.U. Forum

Dictionary entries:

• “Montanist Oracles,” in: Searching the Scriptures: A Feminist-Ecumenical Commentary I. Ed. by E. Schüssler-Fiorenza, ed., Philadelphia: Crossroad/Continuum, 1994.
• “Celibacy,” “Montanists,” “Novatians” in: A Guide to the Late Antique World. Ed. by G. Bowersock, P. Brown, and O. Grabar. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.
• “Apotaktiken,” “Arsenius,” “Akoimeten,” Anachoret,” “Jovinian,” “Lerins,” “Syneisakten,” in Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart4, Tübingen, J.C.B. Mohr, 1999, 2000, 2001 (with English translations).
• “Virginity,” “Virgin Birth,” in: Oxford Companion to the Body. Ed. Colin Blakemore and Sheila Jennett. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
• “Self-formation,” “Perpetua,” in Dictionary of Childhood, Ed. Paula Fass and Mary Ann Mason.
• New York: Macmillan, 2004.
• “Melania,” “Gregory of Nazianzus,” “Firmilian,” “Pachomius,” “Synesius,” “Syneisaktoi,” Westminster Dictionary of the Early Church, 2008.

Other writings:

• Book Reviews for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Die Welt include:
• P. R.L. Brown, The Body and Society. Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity, F.A.Z. 7/31/1989.
• M. Walsh, Christen und Caesaren, F.A.Z. 4/7/1989.
• K. Christ, Geschichte der römischen Kaiserzeit von Augustus bis Konstantin, F.A.Z. 3/15/1989.
• K. D. Bracher, Die Diadochen, F.A.Z. 9/10/1988.
• Palladius, Die Geschichte des Lausias, F.A.Z. 7/15/1988.
• Kalkhoff, Karl der Grosse; G. Herm, Karl der Grosse, F.A.Z. 2/4/1988.
• “Eusebius und seine Kirchengeschichte.” Die Welt, 8/20/1999.
• “Der Star und die Dame.”Michael T. Clanchey, Abaelard. Ein mittelalterliches Leben.
• Übersetzung aus dem Englischen von Raul Niemann und Ralf M.W. Stammberger.
• Darmstadt: Primus Verlag, 2000. Die Welt, 12/12/ 2000.

Other articles include:

• "East Germany's Fizzled Revolution", with T. Correl, New York Times Op-Ed. section, March  12, 1990, and International Herald Tribune, March 11/12 1990
• "Am Ende erschlagen sie ihre Brüder. Aufstieg und Zerfall der Jugendbanden in Los Angeles."  
• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 6/20/1992.
• “Der Atem Gottes.” Die Welt 6/2/2001.