Jinyu Liu

Jinyu Liu (刘津瑜) (b. 1972) is Professor of Classics at DePauw University and Distinguished Guest Professor at Shanghai Normal University (Chinese: 上海师范大学)). She is an expert in Roman history, social history, translation, the reception of Graeco-Roman classics in China, and Latin epigraphy.

Early life and education
Liu was born and raised in China. She received her BA in 1993 and her MA in 1996 from Nanjing University (南京大學) where she studied Greek and Roman history, and Chinese literature and history. She received her PhD from Columbia University in 2004. Her thesis was entitled Occupation, Social Organization, and Public Service in the collegia centonariorum.

Career
Liu began employment at DePauw University in 2004 as Assistant Professor. Liu was the recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s New Directions Fellowship (2011–2014) and holds Shanghai "1000 Plan" Distinguished Guest Professorship at Shanghai Normal University (2014–2019). She was a visiting Professor at Peking University, 2011–2012. Liu is the Principal Investigator of the project 'Translating the Complete Corpus of Ovid’s poetry into Chinese with Commentaries', funded by the Chinese National Social Science Foundation, 2015–2020. The project involves translating Ovid's Fasti and exile poetry from Latin to Chinese for the first time. Ovid's other poems will be re-translated, all with commentaries. Liu received a Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship (2018–2019) for her project entitled 'Ovid's Tristia: A Chinese Translation and Commentary'. Liu was a keynote speaker at the 2020 annual meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians. She delivered the 10th annual Grimshaw-Gudewicz Lecture at Brown University in 2019 and the Clack Lecture at the 2020 annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States.