Shadi Bartsch

Shadi Bartsch

Shadi Bartsch (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1992) is the Ann L. and Lawrence B. Buttenwieser Professor of Classics and the Program in Gender Studies. She is the author of Decoding the Ancient Novel: The Reader and the Role of Description in Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius (Princeton, 1989), Actors in the Audience: Theatricality and Doublespeak from Nero to Hadrian (Cambridge MA, 1994), Ideology in Cold Blood: A Reading of Lucan's Civil War (Cambridge MA, 1998) and, most recently, The Mirror of the Self:  Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire (Chicago, 2006). She has also edited volumes on the history of rhetoric, Eros, ekphrasis, and Seneca. Her teaching is primarily devoted to Roman literature and culture, and her current research addresses critical terms for the study of Classics and the satirist Persius. She has received both the Quantrell Teaching Award and a Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching.

Contact

Department of Classics
1115 E. 58th St
Chicago, IL 60637
tel.: 773-702-4847
email: sbartsch@uchicago.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Honors and Awards

  • 2010: Distinguished Visiting Scholar, University of St Andrews, Scotland
  • 2008: Sorum Guest Professor, Union College
  • 2007, 2009: Distinguished Visiting Fellow, National Science Foundation, Taipei
  • 2007-2008: Fellow, Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 2007: Gray Lecturer, University of Cambridge
  • 2006: Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, University of Chicago
  • 2004-2005: Fellow, Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago
  • 2001: President's Lecturer, Searle Center for Teaching, Northwestern University
  • 2000: Prentice Lecturer, Princeton University
  • 2000: Roberts Lecturer, Dickinson College
  • 2000: Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
  • 2000: Benefactor's Fund Lecturer, Dartmouth College
  • 2000: Jackson Knight Lecturer, University of Exeter
  • 1999-2000: Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies
  • 1998: George B. Walsh Memorial Lecturer, University of Chicago
  • 1995-1996: Fellow, Humanities Research Foundation, University of California, Berkeley
  • 1990: Honorary P.S. Allen Junior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
  • 1990: Richardson Latin Prize, University of California, Berkeley
  • 1989-1991: Berkeley Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
  • 1987-89: Mellon Fellow in the Humanities, Harvard University

Publications

Monographs

  • Persius:  The Satirist out of Joint (in preparation).
  • The Mirror of the Self:  Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire.  The University of Chicago Press, 2006.
  • Ideology in Cold Blood:  A Reading of Lucan's Civil War.  Harvard University Press.  1998.
  • Actors in the Audience:  Theatricality and Doublespeak from Nero to Hadrian.  Harvard University Press.  1994.
  • Decoding the Ancient Novel:  The Reader and the Role of Description in Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius.  Princeton University Press.  1989.

Edited volumes

  • Cambridge Companion to the Age of Nero (in preparation for Cambridge University Press).
  • Cambridge Companion to Seneca, co-edited with A. Schiesaro (in preparation for Cambridge University Press).
  • Critical Terms for the Study of Classics (in preparation for the University of Chicago Press).
  • Seneca and the Self, co-edited with David Wray. The University of Chicago Press. 2009.
  • Ekphrasis, co-edited with Jas' Elsner. Special issue of Classical Philology 102 (2007).
  • Erotikon:  Essays on Eros, Ancient and Modern, co-edited with Thomas Bartscherer. The University of Chicago Press. 2005.
  • Oxford Encyclopedia of Rhetoric, co-edited with Thomas Sloane (editor-in-chief), Heinrich Plett, and Thomas Farrell. Oxford University Press. 2001.

Series Editor

The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, translated into English.  The University of Chicago Press.  With M. Nussbaum and E. Asmis.  2004-2011.

Volumes edited by Bartsch:

  • Volume 1:  Thyestes, Oedipus, Hercules Furens, Hercules Oetaeus, Agamemnon. Tr. Shadi Bartsch, Susanna Braund, David Konstan, et al.  Ed. Shadi Bartsch.  In progress.
  • Volume 2:  Medea, Phaedra, Octavia, Troades, Phoenissae.  Tr. Shadi Bartsch, Susanna Braund, et al.  Ed. Shadi Bartsch.  In progress
  • Volume 3.  Naturales Quaestiones.  Tr. Harry Hine.  Ed. Shadi Bartsch.  Forthcoming in 2008.

Articles and Contributions to Edited Volumes

  • "The Art of Sincerity:  Pliny's Panegyricus," in Oxford Readings in Latin Panegyric, ed. R. Rees.  Reprinted from Actors in the Audience (Harvard, 1994).  Forthcoming in 2010.
  • "Persius as Philosopher,' in Philosophy Embedded: Presocratic and Hellenistic Philosophy in Latin Poetry (Cambridge University).  In progress.
  • "Classical Poetics."  In the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, ed. R. Greene. In progress.
  • "Rhetoric and Stoic Philosophy."  In the Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies, ed. M. MacDonald.  In progress.
  • Entries on "the human body," "ekphrasis," "art," "clementia," "golden line," "theater," and "liminality" for the Vergil Encyclopedia, eds. R. Thomas and J. Ziolkowski.  In progress.
  • "Lucan and Historical Bias."  To be published in the series Études from Editions Ausonius, series editor François Lissarague.  Forthcoming in 2009.
  • "Lucan the Historian." In the Brill Companion to Lucan, ed. Paolo Asso.  Forthcoming in 2009.
  • "Introduction:  Perspectives on Seneca." In Seneca and the Self, edd. Shadi Bartsch and David Wray.  2009.
  • "Senecan Metaphors and Stoic Self-Instruction."  In Seneca and the Self, edd. Shadi Bartsch and David Wray.  2009.
  • "Senecan Tragedy."  Series introduction, The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca.  Forthcoming in 2008.
  • "Introduction:  Eight Ways of Looking at an Ekphrasis."  With Jaś Elsner.  In Essays on Ekphrasis, edd. Shadi Bartsch and Jaś Elsner.  Special issue of Classical Philology, 102 (2007) i-vi.
  • "Wait a Moment, phantasia: Ekphrastic Interference in Seneca and Epictetus."  In Essays on Ekphrasis, edd. Shadi Bartsch and Jaś Elsner.  Special issue of Classical Philology, 102 (2007) 83-95.
  • "Desire and Disruption in the History of Eros."  With Thomas Bartscherer.  In  Erotikon:  Essays on Eros, Ancient and Modern, 1-15.  University of Chicago Press.  2005.
  • "Eros and the Roman Philosopher."  In Erotikon:  Essays on Eros, Ancient and Modern, 59-83.  University of Chicago Press.  2005.
  • "Lucan." In John Foley, ed. The Blackwell Companion to Ancient Epic, 492-502.  Oxford, U.K.  2005.
  • "Author and Narrative in the Roman Novel." In Tim Whitmarsh, ed.  The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Novel.   Cambridge. UK.  2005.
  • "Martial."  Introduction to James Mitchie, trans. The Epigrams of Martial, xi-xviii.  New York.  2002.
  • "Panegyric," in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Rhetoric, 549-551. Oxford.  2001.
  • "The Self as Audience:  Paradoxes of Identity in Imperial Rome," in Pegasus 44 (2001):  4-12.
  • "The Philosopher as Narcissus:  Knowing Oneself in Classical Antiquity," in Robert S.  Nelson, ed. Seeing as Others Saw:  Visuality Before and Beyond the Renaissance, pp. 70-97.   Cambridge University Press.  Cambridge, UK. 2000.
  • "Ars and the Man:  The Politics of Art in Vergil's Aeneid," Classical Philology 93 (1998):  322-42.
  • "Author, Reader, and the Interpretive Game in Heliodorus' Aethiopica and Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon," in edd. J. Tatum and G. Vernazza, The Ancient Novel:  Classical Paradigms and Modern Perspectives, 71-72.  Hanover, N.H.  1990.

Reviews

  • C. Gere, Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism.  Forthcoming in the London Review of Books.
  • A.J. Boyle, ed.  Octavia, attributed to Seneca, an English translation.   London Review of Books, Vol. 31 No. 4, 26 February 2009.
  • A. Duncan, Performance and Identity in the Classical World, in Classical Review 58 (2008):  30-32.
  • "The Spectacle of Death."  Review article on C. Edwards, Death in Ancient Rome, and E. Wilson, The Death of Socrates, in The London Review of Books. Nov. 15, 2007, pp. 1-6.
  • H. Morales, Vision and Narrative in Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon, in Classical Philology 101 (2006), 299-302.
  • P. Toohey, Melancholy, Love, and Time: Boundaries of the Self in Ancient Literature, in Classical Review 55 (2005), 498-499.
  • D. Fredrick, ed.  The Roman Gaze:  Vision, Power, and the Body, in Classical Review 55 (2005), 672-675.
  • M. C. J. Putnam, Vergil's Epic Designs, in Classical Review 50 (2000), 47-48.
  • W. J. Slater, ed.  Roman Theater and Society, in Phoenix 53 (1999), 152-55.
  • J. Kastely, Rethinking the Rhetorical Tradition:  From Plato to Postmodernism, in Classical Philology 94 (1999), 227-34.
  • G. Kennedy, New History of Classical Rhetoric, in Style 32 (1998), 508-512.
  • V. Rudich, Dissidence and Literature under Nero:  The Price of Rhetoricization, in the Times Literary Supplement (March 27, 1998), 28.
  • J. Elsner and J. Masters, edd.  Reflections of Nero, in Medievalia & Humanistica 26 (1995), 240-48.
  • B. P. Reardon, The Form of Greek Romance, in American Journal of Philology 113 (1992), 644-48.

Most Recent Courses Taught

  • Seneca
  • The Roman Novel
  • Vergil
  • Greek Thought and Literature
  • Postvergilian Epic
  • Latin Prose Composition
  • Introductory Latin
  • Human Being and Citizen