Network Members: Jinyu Liu

 Jinyu Liu

Jinyu Liu received her Ph.D. in Roman History from Columbia University. She is currently Professor of Classical Studies at DePauw University, and has been a Distinguished Guest Professor at Shanghai Normal University since 2015. Her research interests include social relations in Roman cities, the non-elite in the Roman Empire, Latin epigraphy, the reception of Graeco-Roman classics in China, as well as translating classical texts in a global context. She is the author of the monograph Collgia Centonariorum: The Guilds of Textile Dealers in the Roman West (Brill, 2009), and coedited (with Thomas R. Blanton IV and Agnes Choi), Taxation, Economy and Revolt in Ancient Rome, Galilee, and Egypt (Routledge, 2022) and (with Thomas Sienkewicz), Ovid in China: Reception, Translation, and Comparison (Brill, 2022). She has been organizing the Guangqi Classics Lecture and Seminar Series since 2015, and published widely in Chinese. Her book An Introductory Research Guide to Roman History (in Chinese) was first published by Peking University in 2014 and the second, expanded edition came out in 2021. She is editor of a two-volume book entitled New Frontiers of Research on Ovid in a Global Context (in Chinese; Peking University Press, 2021).

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