Shadi Bartsch is the Ann L. and Lawrence B. Buttenwieser Professor of Classics

Classics

Classics is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean world ; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity Classics (sometimes encompassing Classical Studies or...

 at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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. She has previously held professorships at the University of California Berkeley and Brown University

Brown University

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 where she was the W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics in 2008-2009.

Career

Bartsch has contributed to classical scholarship, more specifically in the areas of the literature and culture of Julio-Claudian Rome

Rome

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, the ancient novel, Roman stoicism

Stoicism

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, and the classical tradition. She was awarded the Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in the College in 2000 and the Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching in 2006 at the University of Chicago. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowship

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 in 2007. Bartsch also served as Chair of the Faculty Board of the University of Chicago Press

University of Chicago Press

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 from 2006-2008 and Editor-in-Chief of Classical Philology

Classical Philology (journal)

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 from 2000-2004.

Life

Bartsch is the daughter of a UN economist and spent her childhood in London, Geneva, Tehran, Jakarta, and the Fiji Islands. She earned a B.A. summa cum laude from Princeton University

Princeton University

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 in 1987 and both her M.A. and Ph.D. (1992) from the University of California-Berkeley in Latin and classics, respectively.

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)

External links

• http://humanities.uchicago.edu/depts/classics/people/bartschindex.html
• http://today.brown.edu/faculty/2008/bartsch
• "CONNECTIONS; Eros and its Dizzying Masks", from The New York Times, March 10, 2001