Notes on Contributors
Jaewon Ahn
is Professor of Western Classical Philology at Seoul National University. His research concerns ancient rhetoric of Western civilization, ancient literary history of Western civilization, the history of encounters between civilizations, translation, reception history of Classical texts between Eastern and Western civilization, history of Classical scholarship, and comparative studies between Asia and Europe.
Ikuho Amano
is Associate Professor of Japanese at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where she teaches literature, culture, film, and language. Her research has explored various themes salient in modern and contemporary Japanese literature, particularly the idea of decadence, postwar body politics, and issues of economy. In recent years her research has expanded its parameters to include other areas, such as popular cultural production (anime, manga, and photography) and consumption of industrial memory. She is currently working on a book project that commemorates Japan’s economic bubble (ca. 1986–1992).
Shadi Bartsch
is the Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Classics and director of the Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge at the University of Chicago. She has written and edited several books, including most recently Persius: A Study in Food, Philosophy, and the Figural and (with Alessandro Schiesaro) The Cambridge Companion to Seneca. She is also a co-editor of the University of Chicago Seneca in Translation series. Her research focuses on the literature of the Neronian period, Roman Stoicism, epistemic history, and the contemporary Chinese reception of the Western Classics.
Luciana Cardi
is Lecturer in Japanese Studies and Italian language and culture at Osaka University. She received her master’s degree in Japanese Studies at Osaka University of Foreign Languages and obtained a PhD in comparative literature from L’Orientale University of Naples, Italy. Her research interests include contemporary Japanese literature, Asian American studies, comparative literature, and gender studies. She is currently researching adaptations of Japanese folktales in American fiction, and her project is supported by the Kakenhi Fund for Scientific Research, from the Japanese Ministry of Education. Her publications include ‘Ancient Greece and Contemporary Japan in Mishima Yukio’s Theatre: Niobe and The Decline and Fall of the Suzaku’ (Studies in Language and Culture, 2015), ‘A Fool Will Never Be Happy: Kurahashi Yumiko’s Retelling of Snow White’ (Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies, 2013), and ‘Angela Carter’s Postmodern Rewriting of Japan’ (Contact Zones: Rewriting Genre across the East-West Border, 2003).
Guangchen Chen
is a Cotsen Fellow in the Society of Fellows and Lecturer in the Humanities/Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature (with a secondary field in Music) from Harvard University. His first book manuscript investigates the interplay between intellectual innovations and the collecting of ancient artifacts in twentieth-century China. His research interests include modern Chinese literature and intellectual history, Sino-Czech cultural relations, phenomenology of music, and the politics of aesthetics. He translated Albert Schweitzer’s Bach into Chinese, and is currently working on the Chinese translation of David Damrosch’s How to Read World Literature. He held the Frederic Sheldon Traveling Fellowship from Harvard University and a Junior Fellowship in the ‘Principle of Cultural Dynamics’ network from Freie Universität Berlin.
Byoung Jo Choe
has been Professor of Roman law and European legal history at Seoul National University’s (SNU) College of Law and School of Law since 1985, and he has been director of SNU’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Classical Studies (2010–2016). Professor Choe holds an LL.B and an LL.M from SNU, a Dr. jur. with distinction from Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, and he is the winner of the SNU Research Award (2012) and Youngsan Legal Culture Award (2015). His academic interests include Roman law, civil law, and European and Korean legal history. He has authored and co-authored several books, including the largest commentaries of the Korean Civil Code, and has published over ninety specialized articles on Roman law. Professor Choe served as president of the Korean Society of Legal History (2010–2014) and the Korean Society of Greco-Roman Studies (2010–2012). He has also been a corresponding member of the G10 National University (SNU) College of Law and School.
Elizabeth Craik
previously Professor at Kyoto University (1997–2002), is now Honorary Professor in the School of Classics at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. She has published extensively on Greek society and literature, particularly Euripidean tragedy, but also on Hippocratic medicine, where her main research interests now lie.
Xin Fan
is Assistant Professor of East Asian history at the State University of New York at Fredonia. His research focuses on the production of world-historical knowledge over the course of the twentieth century in China as well as the study of the reception of Greco-Roman knowledge in East Asia.
Noël Golvers
PhD in Classical philology, is Senior Researcher at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven). He studies Latin texts on the Jesuit mission in China, especially in the early Qing period, focusing on Ferdinand Verbiest’s astronomical work. He has contributed many shorter works on mainly cultural aspects of the Jesuit mission in the Qing period, with regard to history of science and book culture, and the communication networks between Europe and China, such as Building Humanistic Libraries in Late Imperial China (Rome, 2011) and Libraries of Western Learning for China, 3 vols (Leuven, 2012.2013.2015). Recently he published a revised edition of the correspondence of F. Verbiest (Letters of a Peking Jesuit, Ferdinand Verbiest Institute, KU Leuven, 2017). Currently he is preparing a monograph on the learned network of the China missionary Johann Schreck Terrentius, S.J., in Europe (ca. 1600–1618).
Chia-Lin Hsu
obtained her doctorate in Classical archaeology from the University of Oxford and is now Assistant Professor in the History Department of Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan. She specializes in the connoisseurship and technique of Greek red-figure vase painting. With a bachelor’s degree in chemistry as well as years of training in Chinese calligraphy, she looks at Greek vase painting from a unique viewpoint. She also researches the reception of Greek and Roman decorative elements of Taiwanese architecture that appear on Japanese colonial buildings as well as more recent constructions. Her academic interests include the impact of Classical archaeology on the study of ancient history, and so far this focuses on the excavations related to the Battle of Marathon and their historical interpretations.
Yang Huang
PhD King’s College London, is currently Professor of Ancient History and Chair in the Department of History, Fudan University, Shanghai. His early research interest was land tenure in ancient Greece. Since then he has moved on to studying Athenian democracy and the comparative study of the barbarian and ethnic identity in ancient Greece and China.
Yuh-Jhung Hwang
is a doctoral candidate in Theatre Arts at the University of Pittsburgh. She lectured on Korean language and culture at University College Cork, Ireland. She won the New Scholars’ Prize of the International Federation of Theatre Research with an essay titled ‘Mourning Origin: Performing the 1916 Easter Rising’ in 2014. Her research areas are based on audience reception, theater culture, and history. She has published widely on modern and contemporary Korean theater and culture. Among her articles is ‘A Mad Mother and Her Dead Son: The Impact of the Irish Theatre on Modern Korean Theatre’, which appeared in Literature Compass (2012).
Sari Kawana
is Associate Professor of Japanese at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is the author of Murder Most Modern: Detective Fiction and Japanese Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 2008) and The Uses of Literature in Modern Japan: Histories and Cultures of the Book (Bloomsbury, 2018). Her research interests include modern Japanese literature, genre fiction, history of the book, adaptation, manga, and the relationship between culture and tourism in the contemporary world.
Deogsu Kim
is Professor in the History Education Department, College of Education, Seoul National University. His main research areas include the political and social history of the Augustan Principate, the history of Rome and Christianity, the history of education in Greek and Roman society, and world history education for South Korean middle- and high-school students.
Haiying Liu
is Associate Professor of Western literature in the Department of Foreign Languages, College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricultural University, Beijing. Born in Liaoning Province, China, she was educated first at Northeast Normal University, and later at Peking University. She is the editor and co-translator of Selected English Dramas with Chinese Translation (Beijing: China International Broadcasting Press). Her current research interest is the English Romantic poet John Keats.
Jinyu Liu
PhD Columbia University 2004, is Professor of Classical studies at DePauw University, USA, and Shanghai ‘1000 Plan’ Distinguished Professor at Shanghai Normal University, China. Her main research interests include Roman social history, Latin epigraphy, and the reception of Greco-Roman Classics in China. She is currently completing a book-length project on the reception of Greco-Roman Classics in China and serving as the principal investigator for the project ‘Translating the Complete Corpus of Ovid into Chinese with Commentaries,’ sponsored by the National Social Science Fund of China (2015–2020). Her article on ‘Virgil in China’ is forthcoming in Susanna Braund and Zara Torlone (eds.), Virgil and His Translators, from Oxford University Press.
Xiaofeng Liu
is Professor of Comparative Classics in the College of Liberal Arts of Renmin University of China, as well as current director of the Centre for Classical Studies at Renmin University and president of the Chinese Comparative Classical Association, now mainly focusing on Classical philology, political philosophy, history of European thought, and history of Chinese political thought.
Andreas Müller-Lee
studied in Leipzig, Nanjing, and Bochum, and finished his PhD (in Korean and Chinese studies) at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. He has worked at Seoul National University, Ruhr-Universität, and Freie Universität Berlin. His research focuses on the histories and intellectual histories of premodern Korea and China.
Fritz-Heiner Mutschler
is Professor Emeritus of Latin at the Institute of Classics, Technische Universität Dresden. He studied in Heidelberg and Berlin, and taught in Heidelberg (1973–1988), Changchun (1988–1992), Tianjin (1992), Dresden (1993–2011), and Beijing (2011–2016). His main research areas include Augustan poetry, Roman values, Roman philosophy, and ancient historiography in comparative perspective. He is the author of monographs on Caesar’s commentaries and the elegies of Tibullus and the co-editor of Römische Werte als Gegenstand der Altertumswissenschaft (2005), Conceiving the Empire: Rome and China Compared (2008), Römische Werte und römische Literatur im frühen Prinzipat (2011), and The Homeric Epics and the Chinese Book of Songs: Foundational Texts Compared (2018).
Rui Nakamura
has been Associate Professor of the history of ancient Greek art at Kochi University since 2014, after teaching at Tokyo University of Arts from 2004 to 2014. She is the author of ‘The Hediste Stele in the Context of Hellenic Funerary Art: The Display of the Corpse of a Tragic Woman’ (PhD dissertation, Harvard University, 1995), and ‘Recreation in 3-D of the Gods on the Parthenon Frieze: Body and Space of the Invisibles’ in The Parthenon Frieze. The Ritual Communication between the Goddess and the Polis, Parthenon Project Japan 2011–2014, ed. Toshihiro Osada (Vienna: Phoibos Verlag, 2016). Her main research areas include Greek funerary art and the religious aspects of Parthenon sculpture. She currently directs the project 3-D Recreation of the Olympian Gods of the Parthenon Frieze.
Hiroshi Nara
is Professor and Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. He has a wide range of research interests, including Japanese language pedagogy, linguistic semantics, translation studies, and interwar intellectual history. He is particularly interested in the formation of aesthetic categories in modern Japan. His recent publications include The Structure of Detachment: The Aesthetic Vision of Kuki Shūzō (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2004), which contains his English translation of Kuki Shūzō’s ‘Iki’ no kōzō (1930), and Pilgrimages to the Ancient Temples in Nara, an English translation of Watsuji Tetsurō’s Koji junrei (1919).
Almut-Barbara Renger
is Professor of Ancient Religion and Culture and Their Reception History at the Institute for Religious Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research concentrates on the reception of Greco-Roman antiquity, dynamics in the history of religions between Asia, Europe, and America, the relationship of religion and literature, and key terms and concepts central to the study of religion. Recent publications include Oedipus and the Sphinx: The Threshold Myth from Sophocles through Freud to Cocteau (University of Chicago Press, 2013), and Pythagorean Knowledge from the Ancient to the Modern World: Askesis – Religion – Science (Harrassowitz, 2016). She is currently working on the book project New Antiquities: Transformations of Ancient Religion in the New Age and Beyond, to be published with Equinox.
Carla Scilabra
is a Classical archaeologist. She received her PhD from the Università degli Studi di Torino in 2013, having written her thesis on preadult individuals in the Greek colonies of Sicily and Magna Graecia. Her main research fields are the archaeology of identity and the study of ancient material culture, especially Greek and Roman pottery. Lately she has studied the reception of the Classical heritage in modern media, mainly in the representation of Greco-Roman history and myth in Japanese comics and animated productions: among her works on this subject are ‘Theoi becoming Kami: Classical Mythology in the Anime World,’ in Ancient Magic and the Supernatural in the Modern Visual and Performing Arts (London, 2015), written with M.G. Castello, and ‘Vivono fra noi: L’uso del classico come espressione di alterità nella produzione fumettistica giapponese,’ in Status Quaestionis issue 8 (2015) on Classical reception.
Ichiro Taida
is Associate Professor at Toyo University in Japan. His research interests include Greek epics and Classical reception studies. He researched the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite for his doctoral thesis and received his PhD from Hokkaido University in Japan in 2005. He has had a number of articles published, focusing especially on the Homeric Hymns and the history of Western Classical studies in Japan.
Jiaming Xiu
received his Masters degree in literature from Peking University, P.R. China (2014), and has dedicated himself to reviewing books and translating ever since. His recent translation work includes a Chinese translation of Revolution of the Heart by Haiyan Lee (Beijing: Peking University Press, to be published in 2018).
Tianshu Yu
is currently Professor of Western literature at the Institute of World Literature, School of Foreign Languages, Peking University, P.R. China. She was born in Beijing and educated at Peking University before becoming a staff member there. She is the author of the following three books: Mainstream Thoughts in the Period of May 4th Literature and Christian Culture; Guowei Wang, Moruo Guo and Confucianism; and A Survey of Western Literature. She is also the co-author of Zen and Landscape Architecture. Her research interests include Chinese literature, Western literature, and the relationship between religion and literature.
Lihua Zhang
is Associate Professor at the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University. She obtained her PhD at Peking University, P.R. China (2009), and has done research at Heidelberg University, Germany (2005–2007, 2016–2017), and Nanyang Technology University, Singapore (2009–2011). Her main research areas include modern Chinese literature and culture, translation studies, and genre studies. She has published a monograph entitled The Rise of ‘Duanpian xiaoshuo’ (short stories) in Modern China: The Formation of a New Genre (Beijing: Peking University Press, 2011). Her current research is focused on the compromise of literary forms in transcultural contexts during late Qing and Republican China.