Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer is the Helen A. Regenstein Professor at the University of Chicago. She 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 is forthcoming from Random House in 2020; in the following year, she is publishing a new 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. From 2015-24, Bartsch led the University of Chicago’s Institute on the Formation of Knowledge, which examined the historical and humanistic contexts in which knowledge is created, legitimized, and circulated.
My current research project looks at what the humanities contribute to science and developed out of my years working and teaching with colleagues across different disciplines at the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge. Alchemies of Thought considers ten instances where humanistic knowledge changed the course of science.
Things I care about:
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