Shadi Bartsch

Shadi Bartsch is the founding Director of the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge at the University of Chicago and the Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Classics. She has authored and edited some 12 books on antiquity. Her new translation of Vergil’s Aeneid was issued by Random House in 2021 and a study of the reception of the Classics in contemporary China is forthcoming in 2022. Bartsch has been a Guggenheim fellow, edits the journal KNOW and has held visiting scholar positions in St. Andrews, Taipei and Rome.