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
SPECIALIZATION
European Renaissance Literature, Classical Latin Poetry, Comparative Literature
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, The University of Texas at Austin, 2015-2020
Dissertation: "From Roman Orator to Renaissance Courtier: Cicero's De Oratore and Its Afterlives in Cinquecento Italy and Elizabethan England"
M.A., English Literature, Tsinghua University, China, 2013-2015
B.A., English Language and Literature, Tsinghua University, China, 2009-2013
EMPLOYMENT
2023- Associate Professor, IAS, Chongqing University
2020-23 Assistant Professor, IAS, Chongqing University
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Ovid's Ars Amatoria: Translation and Commentary, Shangwu Press, 2024 (461 pp)
《奥维德〈爱的艺术〉译注》，商务印书馆
English Literature, chief-editor, textbook in the "Liberal Arts English" series, Chongqing University Press, 2024 (258 pp)
《博雅英语：英语文学》，重庆大学出版社（教材）
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Articles in English
“Reimagining Classics as an Emerging Global Paradigm: Lessons from China,” History of Humanities,
volume 9, number 1, spring 2024, 193-208.
“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). 《古罗马的“庄严美”与“优雅美”》，《文艺理论研究》2023年第6期
“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. 《一个人文主义者眼中现代性的诞生——史蒂芬·格林布拉特〈大转向：世界如何步入现代〉述评》，《中世纪与文艺复兴研究》第8辑，2023年
“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. 《早期现代修辞话语与性别重构——以莎士比亚〈爱的徒劳〉为例》，《外国文学评论》2021年第3期
(with Yumiao Bao) "Stragegies in Cross-Cultural Translation: A Case Study of Dai Wangshu's Translation of Ovid's Ars Amatoria," Chinese Translation, no.2 (2019), 54-60.《试论西方经典的跨文化译介策略——以戴望舒译奥维德“爱经”为例》，《中国翻译》2019年第2期
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, a project funded by China’s National Social Science Fund for the period 2015-2020.
Selected Presentations/Talks
"Egypt in Roman Love Elegy," Keynote Speech, Annual Forum for Doctoral and Post-doctoral Researchers, Tsinghua University, October 2024.
“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 2021.
“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.
COURSES TAUGHT
Classical Latin, Recent Topics in Comparative Literature, English Literature, Introduction to Comparative Literature, History of Non-Chinese Literature, Great Books II
HONORS AND AWARDS
National Grants
Chinese National Youth Grant for Humanities and Social Sciences, China, 2021
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
Comparative Literature Excellence Fund, UT Austin, 2018, 2017
Sherzer Endowed Graduate Professional Development Fellowship, UT Austin, 2017
Stiles Endowed Graduate Professional Development Fellowship, UT Austin, 2019, 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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