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Shadi Bartsch

Shadi Bartsch, auch Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer, (* 17. März1966 in London) ist eine US-amerikanische Altphilologin.

Bartsch ist die Tochter eines UN-Ökonomen und schon in Kindheit und Jugend weltweit umhergekommen (London, Genf, Teheran, Jakarta und die Fidschi-Inseln). Nach dem Besuch der École Internationale de Genève studierte sie Classics an der Princeton University und erwarb dort 1987 einen B.A. summa cum laude. Im akademischen Jahr 1987 bis 1988 nahm sie an einem Ph.D. program in Classical Philology der Harvard University teil. Anschließend ging sie an die University of California at Berkeley, wo sie 1992 den Ph.D. in Classics mit einer gräzistischen Dissertation zu den Romanautoren Heliodor und Achilleus Tatios erwarb.

Nach Anstellungen als Professor für Classics und Rhetorik an der University of California at Berkeley wechselte sie 1998 als Professor of Classics und des Committee on the History of Culture an die University of Chicago. Sie wechselte 2008 erneut als W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics an die Brown University, um 2009 als Ann L.

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Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer is the Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago and director of the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge.

In December 2023, as campuses remained in turmoil over the massacre on October 7 and its aftermath in Gaza, I wrote an op-ed piece for the Chicago Tribune. In it, I pointed out that thanks to the Kalven Report of 1967 and the 2015 Chicago Principles established under our late President Robert Zimmer, at the University of Chicago protests and encampments were not considered an example of free speech, but—when they disrupted other students’ ability to attend their classes or do their work—a chilling influence on free speech. In this regard, both documents are in line with Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. It’s a good lineage.

I have been faculty at this university for 26 years, and I worked directly on its behalf for ten as Bob Zimmer’s wife, but it turns out I was sorely mistaken. In May of this year, the administration of the University retreated from the principles that have guided our in

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Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer

Biography

Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer works on Roman imperial literature, the history of rhetoric and philosophy, and on the reception of the western classical tradition in contemporary China. She is the author of 6 books, the most recent of which is Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism (Princeton, 2023). She has also edited or co-edited 7 wide-ranging essay collections (two of them Cambridge Companions) and the “Seneca in Translation” series from the University of Chicago. Bartsch’s new translation of Vergil’s Aeneid was released from Random House in 2021 to critical and popular acclaim. She has been a Guggenheim fellow, edits the journal KNOW, and has held visiting scholar positions in St. Andrews, Taipei, and Rome. Starting in academic year 2015, she has directed the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge, a university-wide initiative to explore the historical and social contexts in which knowledge is created, legitimized, and circulated.