Cohort Year:
2022
Research Interests:
Narratives and poetics; Greek literary history; reflection on philosophical themes in literature
Education:
B.A., Amherst College, 2019; M.St., University of Oxford, 2020; M.A., University of Chicago, 2022
Chenxi studied Classics at Amherst College and then took a year at Oxford learning more about ancient philosophy. At UChicago, his research has tended toward questions about figuration, genre, traditional referentiality, so questions about poetic form broadly construed. His dissertation proposes ways for thinking that certain claims about the nature, power, and limits of poetic representation (or the broad range of phenomena associated with the Greek term mimesis) underlie the behavior or conception of dikê in the Oresteia. Other more concrete projects include: the metapoetics of atê in the Iliad; the presence of archaic lyric in various philosophical texts; the poetics behind the mythic figures of Helen and Agamemnon.