Shadi Bartsch
Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer (born March 17, 1966) is an American academic and is the Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago.[1] She has previously held professorships at the University of California, Berkeley[2] and Brown University where she was the W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics in 2008-2009.[3]
Life
Bartsch is the daughter of a UN economist and spent her childhood in London, Geneva (where she studied at the
Career
Bartsch has contributed to classical scholarship
Books published
- Decoding the Ancient Novel: The Reader and the Role of Description in Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius (1989)
- Actors in the Audience: Theatricality and Doublespeak from Nero to Hadrian (1994)
- Ideology in Cold Blood: A Reading of Lucan’s Civil War. (1998)
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Rhetoric. (as editor with Thomas Sloane, Heinrich Plett, and Thomas Farrell, 2001)
- Erotikon: Essays on Eros, Ancient and Modern, (as editor with Thomas Bartscherer, 2005)
- The Mirror of the Self: Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire (2006)
- Ekphrasis (a special issue of Classical Philology, as editor with Jas Elsner, 2007)
- Seneca and the Self, (as editor with David Wray, 2009)
- Persius: A Study in Food, Philosophy, and the Figural (2015; winner of the Charles J. Goodwin award)
- The Cambridge Companion to Seneca, as editor with Alessandro Schiesaro, 2015)
- The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Nero, (as editor with Kirk Freudenburg and Cedric Littlewood, 2017)
- The Chicago Seneca in Translation Series, (as series editor with Martha Nussbaum and Elizabeth Asmis, 2008–2017)
- Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism (2023)
Translations
- Seneca's Medea
- Seneca's Thyestes
- Seneca's Phaedra
- Virgil: The Aeneid (2021)
References
- ^ University of Chicago faculty directory of Classics: Shadi Bartsch Archived 2008-06-28 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 2009-01-03.
- ^ Distinguished group joins the University's faculty, The University of Chicago Chronicle, 18(1), Oct. 1, 1998. Accessed 2009-01-03.
- ^ Shadi Bartsch, Professor of Classics Today at Brown: News, people and events at the University, August 26, 2008. Accessed 2009-01-03.
- ^ For example, Edward Rothstein, CONNECTIONS; Eros and Its Dizzying Masks, The New York Times, March 10, 2001. Accessed 2009-01-03.
- ^ Seth Sanders, Bartsch looks through eyes of classical thinkers, The University of Chicago Chronicle, 23(4), Nov. 6, 2003. Accessed 2009-01-03.
- ^ [1] ACLS news
- ^ Josh Schonwald, Four Chicago faculty members are named Guggenheim fellows, The University of Chicago Chronicle, 26(14), April 12, 2007. Accessed 2009-01-03.
- ^ Jennifer Howard, U. of Chicago Press Looks to New Director for Strong Leadership, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 53(50): A16, August 17, 2007. Accessed 2009-01-03.
- ^ University establishes Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge,[2]
- ^ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/know University of Chicago Press Journals: KNOW