Jinyu Liu (; born 1972) is the acting Betty Gage Holland Professor of Roman History at the Department of History of Emory University. She was a professor of classics at DePauw University, and was a distinguished guest professor at Shanghai Normal University. 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 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. She moved to Emory University in 2023 as the acting Betty Gage Holland Professor of Roman History.
Liu holds a distinguished guest professorship at Shanghai Normal University (2014–). Liu was a keynote speaker at the 2020 annual meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians. She delivered the Clack Lecture at the 2020 annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States.
Books
Collegia Centonariorum: the Guilds of Textile Dealers in the Roman West (Leiden: Brill, 2009), A Research Guide to the Study of Roman History (in Chinese) (Beijing: Peking University Press, 1st ed, 2014; 2nd ed, 2021) (review, in Chinese) New Frontiers of Research on Ovid in a Global Context (2 volumes), (Beijing: Peking University Press, 2021) and (ed. with Thomas J. Sienkewicz) Ovid in China. Reception, Translation, and Comparison (Leiden: Brill, 2022)
References
Further reading
Adrienne K.H. Rose, The Art of Translation: An Interview with Jinyu Liu, Society for Classical Studies blog, April 15, 2020