Dr. Xinyao Xiao
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature & Ph.D. advisor
Vice Director of the Department of Chinese Literature and Language
Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences; Liberal Arts College, Chongqing University
Address: Shazheng Street no. 174, Shapingba District, Chongqing, China
xiao_xinyao123@163.com
EDUCATION
The University of Texas at Austin, 2015-2020, Ph.D. in Comparative Literature
Tsinghua University, China, 2013-2015, M.A. in English Literature
Tsinghua University, China, 2009-2013, B.A. in English Language and Literature
PUBLICATIONS
Book-Length Publication:
Ovid's Ars Amatoria: Translation and Commentary, Shangwu Press, 2024 (461 pages).
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Articles in English:
“Reimagining Classics as an Emerging Global Paradigm: Lessons from China,” History of Humanities (2024)
“Ego Sum Praeceptor Amoris: Ovid’s Art of Seduction for the Chinese Audience,” a chapter in Ovid in China, ed. Tom Sienkewicz and Jinyu Liu, Brill, 2022, 197-209.
(With Yumiao Bao) “Ovid’s Debut in Chinese: Translating the Ars Amatoria into the Republican Discourse of Love,” Classical Receptions Journal 12, no. 2 (April 2020): 231-247.
“Oxymoronic Ethos: The Rhetoric of Honor and Its Performance in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar,” Philological Quarterly 97, no.3 (2018): 263-285.
Articles in Chinese:
“Dignitas and Venustas in Ancient Rome: The Ciceronian Aesthetic Ideals,” Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, no. 6 (2023).
“The Birth of Modernity in the Eyes of a Humanist: A Review of Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,” Medieval and Renaissance Studies, no.8, 209-218.
“Shakespeare and the Early Modern Discourse of Rhetoric: A Critical Reading of Love’s Labour’s Lost,” Foreign Literature Review, no.3 (2021): 58-74.
“Teaching Ovid’s Ars Amatoria in the Medieval Classroom,” The World Historical Review 8, no. 2 (2017): 305-317.
Editing and Translation
I am a member, along with several other distinguished professors, of the editorial committee whose purpose is to translate the complete corpus of Ovid’s poetry into Chinese. We received a major grant from China’s National Social Science Fund for the period 2015-2020.
Excerpts of my translations and commentaries have appeared in the following journals and edited volumes:
“A Chinese Verse Translation of Ovid’s Ars Amatoria 1.101-228 with Commentaries,” in New Frontiers of Research on the Roman Poet Ovid in a Global Context, ed. Jinyu Liu (Peking University Press, 2021), 46-56.
“Ovid’s Ars Amatoria 1.351-772 in Chinese with Commentaries,” Urban World and History 23 (2020): 307-343.
“Ovid’s Ars Amatoria 1.229-350 in Chinese with Commentaries,” The World Historical Review no. 2 (2019): 175-190.
“A Chinese Verse Translation of Ovid’s Ars Amatoria 1.1-100 (with Commentaries),” The World Historical Review 8, no. 2 (2017): 318-328.
Selected Presentations/Talks
“Conceptualizing Time in Ovid’s Works,” Guangqi Classical Center, Shanghai Normal University, June 2023.
“Love Poetry in Ancient Rome,” Guangqi Classical Center, Shanghai Normal University, May 2022.
“Studia Humanitatis and Renwen: Teaching the Great Books in Contemporary China,” Worlds Enough and Time: Towards a Comparative Global Humanitie, MIT, November 2011.
“Rhetorical Performativity in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labor’s Lost,” International Online Symposium on Shakespeare, Milton and European Literary Traditions, Zhejiang University, China, October 2020.
“Ovid’s Debut in Chinese: the Ars Amatoria and the Republican Discourse of Love,” the 15th Annual Conference of the Fédération Internationale des Associations d'Études Classiques, London, July 2019.
“Dai Wangshu and Ovid: Translating the Ancient Roman Ars Amatoria in Republican China,” The Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature’s Biennial Conference, Changsha, China, July 2019.
“Castiglione’s Cicero: From Roman Orator to Renaissance Courtier,” Renaissance Society of America, Toronto, March 2019.
“Teaching Ovid’s Amatory Works in the Medieval Classroom,” Globalizing Ovid: An International Conference in Commemoration of the Bi-Millennium of Ovid’s Death, Shanghai, July 2017.
“From ‘Scientia’ to ‘Historia’: Representing the Body in Rabelais’ World,” Annual Conference of American Comparative Literature Association, Harvard University, March 2016.
“From the Margin to the Center: The Rediscovery of the Body in Rabelais’ World,” The 12th Annual Graduate Conference in Comparative Literature, UT Austin, October 2015.
COURSES TAUGHT
Classical Latin (Selective for graduate students)
Recent Topics in Comparative Literature (Selective for graduate students)
English Literature (course taught in English; mandatory for first-year undergraduate students at the Liberal Arts College)
Introduction to Comparative Literature (Selective for third-year majors in Chinese language and literature)
Great Books II (University-wide, mandatory for all freshmen)
HONORS AND AWARDS
Year-Long Fellowships
Graduate Continuing Fellowship, UT Austin, Fall 2019-Summer 2020
William C. Powers Jr. Fellowship, UT Austin, Fall 2015-Summer 2016
William C. Powers Jr. Fellowship, UT Austin, Fall 2016-Summer 2017
Grants
"European Writings about China (1500-1600)," Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, 2023
"Word and Image in the Western Tradition," Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, 2021
Chinese National Youth Grant for Humanities and Social Sciences, China, 2021
College of Liberal Arts: Fund for Dissertation Boot Camp, UT Austin, Summer 2019
Stiles Endowment, UT Austin, Summer 2019
College of Liberal Arts Fund for attending the Annual Meeting of Renaissance Society of America, UT Austin, Spring 2019
Comparative Literature Excellence Fund, UT Austin, Summer 2018
College of Liberal Arts Development Support, UT Austin, Summer 2018
Sherzer Endowed Graduate Professional Development Fellowship, UT Austin, 2017 Comparative Literature Excellence Fund, UT Austin, Summer 2017
Conference Travel Award, Shanghai Normal University, 2017
Graduate Student Travel Award, UT Austin, 2017
Stiles Endowed Graduate Professional Development Fellowship, UT Austin, 2017, 2016
Professional Development Award, UT Austin, 2017, 2016
Floyd L. Moreland Scholarship for Intensive Summer Latin Program, City University of New York, Summer 2014
The Santander-Tsinghua Scholarship for Spanish language and cultural program in Madrid, Tsinghua University, Summer 2011
Academic Excellence Award, Tsinghua University, 2010 and 2011
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