Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer (born March 17, 1966) is an American academic and is the Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of

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at the

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.University of Chicago faculty directory of Classics: Shadi Bartsch
Accessed 2009-01-03. She has previously held professorships at the

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and

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

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

Life

Bartsch is the daughter of a UN economist and spent her childhood in London, Geneva (where she studied at the

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), Tehran, Jakarta, and the Fiji Islands. She earned a B.A. summa cum laude from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

in 1987 and both her M.A. and Ph.D. (1992) from the

in Latin and classics, respectively. She is married to

Robert Zimmer Robert Jeffrey Zimmer (born November 5, 1947) is an American mathematician and academic administrator. From 2006 until 2021, he served as the 13th president of the University of Chicago and as the Chair of the Board for Argonne National Lab, Ferm ...

Career

Bartsch has contributed to classical scholarship in the areas of the literature and culture of

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, the ancient novel, Roman

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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 an

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in 1999 and a

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in 2007. Bartsch served as Chair of the Faculty Board of the

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from 2006-2008 and Editor-in-Chief of ''

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'' from 2000-2004 and 2014 onwards. She has been appointed the Inaugural Director of the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge and is currently the lead editor of the journal ''KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge.''
University of Chicago Press Journals: ''KNOW''

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

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and Elizabeth Asmis, 2008 - 2017)

Translations

*''Seneca's Medea'' *''Seneca's Thyestes'' *''Seneca's Phaedra'' *

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: ''

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'' (2021)

References

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20080628210853/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 * https://shadibartsch.com * https://ifk.uchicago.edu/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Bartsch, Shadi 1966 births Living people Princeton University alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni Classical scholars of Brown University Classical scholars of the University of California, Berkeley Classical scholars of the University of Chicago American classical scholars Women classical scholars International School of Geneva alumni Scholars of Latin literature