News Release

Classics Expert to Speak March 30 at Ohio Wesleyan University

March 25, 2009

Shadi Bartsch, Ph.D.

Photo courtesy of Brown University

Bartsch is the author of four monographs in classics, including “Ideology in Cold Blood: A Reading of Lucan’s Civil War,” as well as four co-edited essay collections. Her presentation is free and open to the public.

Bartsch earned her bachelor’s degree in classics from Princeton University, and both her master’s degree in Latin and her doctoral degree in classics from the University of California-Berkeley.

Bartsch has said her classics degree allows for a lifetime of fascinating work: “There is a whole world at your fingertips. It’s the literature, the history, the art history. It’s the sociology—every aspect of the civilization that you could imagine is accessible to you if you are a classicist.”

Her presentation is sponsored by the OWU Classics Club.

Ohio Wesleyan University is an undergraduate liberal arts college that transforms the lives of its students through a combination of rigorous academics, mentoring relationships, and real-world experiences. Featured in the book “Colleges That Change Lives,” the private university’s 1,850 students come from 47 states and 50 countries. Visit www.owu.edu for more information.