Jinyu Liu
Professor, Classical Studies at DePauw University
From Greencastle, IN
From Greencastle, IN
Dr. Jinyu Liu is Professor of Classical Studies in the Department of Classical Studies at DePauw University, in Greencastle, Indiana, a position she has held since August 2004. She has a Ph.D. in Ancient History from Columbia University (2004) and regularly teaches Roman Civilization and Latin at DePauw. Her research interests include social relations in Roman cities, the non-elite in the Roman Empire, Latin epigraphy, as well as the reception of Graeco-Roman classics in China. Her monograph
Collegia Centonariorum: the Guilds of Textile Dealers in the Roman West was published by Brill in 2009. Sponsored by a Mellon New Directions Fellowship, a DePauw Faculty Fellowship and other grants, she is currently completing a book-length project on the translation history of Graeco-Roman classics in China. In 2014, she was selected as one of the Shanghai "1000 plan" experts. She is currently the Principal Investigator of "Translating the Complete Corpus of the Roman Poet Ovid into Chinese with Commentaries", a multi-year project sponsored by a National Social Sciences Fund of China Major Grant (2015-2020).
Specialties: Roman history, Ancient Social history, Latin Epigraphy, Acculturation in the Roman Empire, Ancient economy, Reception of Classical Antiquity in Asia, Translation of Latin Texts into Chinese
Faculty homepage: https://www.depauw.edu/academics/departments-programs/classical-studies/faculty--staff/detail/1668765416913/
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Professor of Classical Studies at DePauw University
July 2018 - Present
Shanghai "1000 plan" Expert, Disginuished Guest Professor at Shanghai Normal University
July 2014 - Present
Shanghai "1000 plan" Expert, Disginuished Guest Professor at Shanghai Normal University
July 2014 - Present
Translating the Complete Corpus of Ovid's Poetry into Chinese with commentaries
古罗马诗人奥维德全集译注
Research Projects
Recent invited lectures
• "Translation as a 'Contact Zone': The Case of Translating Ovid's Tristia into Chinese", Grimshaw-Gudewicz, Brown University, April 15, 2019
• "Non minus exul ero: The Banished Ovid's Lamentations in Chinese", Stanford University, March 1, 2019
• Ovid Workshop (organized by Steven Green), Yale-NUS, Singapore, February 24-27,2019.
• "Ovid Lamenting in Chinese: The metamorphosis of Tristia", University of Pennsylvania, Classics Department Colloquia, January 31, 2019
• "Who's 'We' in Classics?", Presidential Panel on "Global Classics". Society for Classical Studies (SCS), January 4, 2019.
• Translating Poeticized Exile: Challenges and Strategies of Rendering Ovid's Tristia into Chinese, Department of Classics, UIUC, October 12, 2018.
• Translating Poeticized Exile: Ovid's Tristia in Chinese, Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia, October 10, 2018
• How the Roman Collegia did not function as trust Networks 古代社会的信任机制：以罗马帝国时期的社团行会为例，Institute for the Global History of Civilizations, Shanghai International Studies University上海外国语大学全球文明史研究所, June 15, 2018.
• Translating Ovid into Chinese, “Ovid in China” Panel, Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS), Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 12, 2018.
• Writing Roman History in Republican China, University of Michigan, March 27, 2018 (invited).
https://events.umich.edu/event/50920
https://cnrs.ubc.ca/cnrs-events/event/department-seminar-jinyu-liu/
https://calendars.illinois.edu/detail/596?eventId=33319986
http://www.classics.upenn.edu/events/colloquium-jinyu-liu-depauw-university-ovid-lamenting-chinese-metamorphosis-tristia
https://events.stanford.edu/events/799/79972/
https://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/events
Presentations
Edwin L. Minar Jr. Scholarship Award Recipient Named
Jinyu Liu, associate professor of Classical Studies, was presented with the Edwin L. Minar Jr. Scholarship Award. Established in 1981, the Minar Award is presented in recognition of exceptional scholarly achievement by a faculty member and is named in ...
July, 17 2018 - DePauw University Faculty