Shadi Bartsch

Shadi Bartsch

Shadi Bartsch , also Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer , (born March 17, 1966 in London ) is an American classical philologist .

Bartsch is the daughter of a UN economist and has traveled a lot in childhood and youth (London, Geneva , Tehran , Jakarta and the Fiji Islands ). After attending the École Internationale de Genève, she studied Classics at Princeton University , where she obtained a BA summa cum laude in 1987. In the academic year 1987 to 1988 she took a Ph.D. program in Classical Philology from Harvard University . She then went to the University of California at Berkeley , where she received her Ph.D. in Classics with a Greek dissertation on the novelists Heliodor and Achilleus Tatios .

After positions as Professor of Classics and Rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley, she moved to the University of Chicago in 1998 as Professor of Classics and the Committee on the History of Culture . In 2008 she returned to Brown University as W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics , before returning to Chicago in 2009 as Ann L. and Lawrence B. Buttenwieser Professor of Classics and the Committee on the History of Culture. Since 2012 she has been the Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Classics and the Program in Gender Studies there. In 2015 she initiated the Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge there, of which she is the founding director.

Bartsch is married to the mathematician and President of the University of Chicago, Robert Jeffrey Zimmer .

Bartsch works mainly on the Neronian phase of Latin literature ( Lucan , Seneca tragicus , Persius ), including modern literary theory and cultural-historical aspects ( gender studies ).

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Decoding the Ancient Novel. The Reader and the Role of Description in Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius. Princeton University Press, 1989.
• Actors in the audience. Theatricality and Doublespeak from Nero to Hadrian. Harvard University Press, 1994.
• Ideology in Cold Blood. A Reading of Lucan's Civil War. Harvard University Press, 1998.
• The Mirror of the Self. Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire. University of Chicago Press, 2006.
• Persius. A Study in Food, Philosophy, and the Figural. University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Editorships

• (Ed., With Thomas Sloane, Heinrich Plett and Thomas Farrell): Oxford Encyclopedia of Rhetoric. Oxford University Press, 2001.
• (Ed., With Thomas Bartscherer): Erotikon. Essays on Eros, Ancient and Modern. University of Chicago Press, 2005.
• (Ed., With Jas Elsner ): Ekphrasis. Special issue of the journal Classical Philology , Volume 102.1, 2007.
• (Ed., With David Wray): Seneca and the Self. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
• (Ed., With Alessandro Schiesaro ): Cambridge Companion to Seneca. Cambridge University Press. 2015.

Web links

• Personal page at the University of Chicago.
• The Wisdom of Fools: Christianity and the Break in the Classical Tradition , Humanities Day October 22, 2011 (video of a lecture)