Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer

Classics professor at UChicago and Director of IFK

Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Research Expertise

History and Philosophy of Science
Political Science and International Relations
Literature and Literary Theory
History
Cultural Studies
Linguistics and Language
Language and Linguistics
Classics

About

Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer works on Roman imperial literature, the history of rhetoric and philosophy, and on the reception of the western classical tradition in contemporary China.  She is the author of 5 books on the ancient novel, Neronian literature, political theatricality, and Stoic philosophy, the most recent of which is Persius: A Study in Food, Philosophy, and the Figural (Winner of the 2016 Goodwin Award of Merit).  She has also edited or co-edited 7 wide-ranging essay collections (two of them Cambridge Companions) and the “Seneca in Translation” series from the University of Chicago. Bartsch’s new translation of Vergil’s Aeneid was released from Random House in 2021; in 2022, she is publishing a monograph on the contemporary Chinese reception of ancient Greek political philosophy.  Bartsch has been a Guggenheim fellow, edits the journal KNOW, and has held visiting scholar positions in St. Andrews, Taipei, and Rome. Starting in academic year 2015, she has led a university-wide initiative to explore the historical and social contexts in which knowledge is created, legitimized, and circulated.

Legacy Map

Full View

Publications

Plato’s Republic in the People’s Republic of China
KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge
2019
The Ancient Greeks in Modern China: History and Metamorphosis 237
Receptions of Greek and Roman Antiquity in East Asia
2018
Les facettes d’un tyran
Critique
2017
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Nero
Unknown Venue
2017
Introduction: Angles on an Emperor
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Nero
2017
The Aeneid as ‘Weaker Text’ and Fulgentius’ Radical Hermeneutics
Complex Inferiorities
2018
Roman Literature: Translation, Metaphor & Empire
Daedalus
2016
Jamie Romm. Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero. New York: Knopf, 2014. 336 pp.
Critical Inquiry
2015
Philosophy, Physicians, and Persianic Satire
Selfhood and the Soul
2017
Seneca
The Cambridge Companion to Seneca
2015
Senecan Selves*
The Cambridge Companion to Seneca
2015
Rhetoric and Stoic Philosophy
The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies
2014
Persius, Juvenal, and Stoicism
A Companion to Persius and Juvenal
2012
Ethical Judgment and Narratorial Apostrophe in Lucan’s Bellum Civile
Götter und menschliche Willensfreiheit
Lucan and Historical Bias
Brill's Companion to Lucan
2011
Introduction: Eight Ways of Looking at an Ekphrasis
Classical Philology
2007
“Wait a Moment, Phantasia”: Ekphrastic Interference in Seneca and Epictetus
Classical Philology
2007
Lucan
A Companion to Ancient Epic
Narrative
The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel
2008
Ars and the Man: The Politics of Art in Virgil's Aeneid
Classical Philology
1998

Education

University of California Berkeley

Ph.D, Classics / December, 1992

Berkeley, California, United States of America

Harvard University

Ph.D. Program, Classics / June, 1988

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Princeton University

BA, Classics / June, 1987

Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Experience

University of Chicago

Co-Founder and Inaugural Director, Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge / July, 2015Present

Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Classics / January, 2012Present

affiliated in the Program in Gender Studies

Ann L. and Lawrence B. Buttenwieser Professsor of Classics and Professor in the Committee on the History of Culture / 20092011

affiliated in the Program in Gender Studies

Ann L. and Lawrence B. Buttenwieser Professsor of Classics and Professor in the Committee on the History of Culture / 20052008

Chair, Committee on the History of Culture / 20062008

(a Ph.D granting program)

Chair, Department of Classics / 20012004

Professor of Classics and of The Committee on the History of Culture / 19982005

Visiting Associate Professor of Classics / January, 1998June, 1998

Brown University

W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics / 20082009

University of California, Berkeley

Associate Professor of Classics and Rhetoric / 19951998

Assistant Professor of Classics and Rhetoric / 19921995

Acting Assistant Professor of Classics and Rhetoric / 19911992

Links & Social Media

Join Shadi on NotedSource!
Join Now

At NotedSource, we believe that professors, post-docs, scientists and other researchers have deep, untapped knowledge and expertise that can be leveraged to drive innovation within companies. NotedSource is committed to bridging the gap between academia and industry by providing a platform for collaboration with industry and networking with other researchers.

For industry, NotedSource identifies the right academic experts in 24 hours to help organizations build and grow. With a platform of thousands of knowledgeable PhDs, scientists, and industry experts, NotedSource makes connecting and collaborating easy.

For academic researchers such as professors, post-docs, and Ph.D.s, NotedSource provides tools to discover and connect to your colleagues with messaging and news feeds, in addition to the opportunity to be paid for your collaboration with vetted partners.

Expert Institutions
NotedSource has experts from Stanford University
Expert institutions using NotedSource include Oxfort University
Experts from McGill have used NotedSource to share their expertise
University of Chicago experts have used NotedSource
MIT researchers have used NotedSource
Proudly trusted by
Microsoft uses NotedSource for academic partnerships
Johnson & Johnson academic research projects on NotedSource
ProQuest (Clarivate) uses NotedSource as their industry academia platform
Slamom consulting engages academics for research collaboration on NotedSource
Omnicom and OMG find academics on notedsource
Unilever research project have used NotedSource to engage academic experts

Connect with researchers and scientists like Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer on NotedSource to help your company with innovation, research, R&D, L&D, and more.