Ruobing Xian, Associate Professor of Classics

The Department of History, Fudan University

Room 1910, West Guanghua Tower
220 Handan Road, Shanghai
China 200433
ruobingxian@fudan.edu.cn

Education

2013–2015 University Heidelberg, Germany: Classics (Dr. phil. 2015)
2012–2013 University Heidelberg, Germany: Classics (MA)
2008–2011 Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany: Indo-European linguistics, Classics (BA)

Professional Employment

As of 12/2018 Associate Professor, Fudan University, China

2017–2018 Assistant Professor, Fudan University, China

Fellowship

2015–2016 Visiting member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, United Kingdom

I am happy to supervise under- and postgraduate students on archaic Greek poetry (esp. Homer), tragedy, historiography (esp. Herodotus), Hellenistic poetry, the Second Sophistic & ancient novel, ancient literary criticism, historical linguistics (esp. ancient Greek), history of nineteenth and twentieth century linguistics, and some topics in modern literary theory (esp. narratology). I offer regular Oxford style tutorial for the students under my supervision, ‘on a Tuesday afternoon’.

Publications

Monograph

Raum und Erzählung in der Odyssee (in preparation, Mnemosyne Supplements)

Articles

1. ‘Zur Etymologie von gr. μόθος’, Glotta 93 (2017), 250–254.
2. ‘An Etymological Note on Homeric ὑπόδρα’, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 57 (2017), 261–267.
3. ‘Die Ithakalandschaft in Od. 13’, Mnemosyne 70 (2017), 537–561.

4. ‘Two Notes on Philostratus’ Imagines 2.28 (‘Looms’)’, Classical Quarterly 67 (2017), 335–338.
5. ‘Der Chronotopos der Ziegeninsel (Hom. Od. 9.116–141)’, Mnemosyne 70 (2017), 899–919.

6. ‘Geschlossener Raum und narrative Spannung in der Odyssee’, Materiali e Discussioni 79 (2017), 9–29.
7. ‘A Note on ἀγοράν in Pindar N. 3.14’, Mnemosyne 71 (2018), 169–172.
8. ‘Habrocomes’ Lament in Xenophon of Ephesus’ Ephesiaca 5.1.12–13’, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 58 (2018), 55–66.

9. ‘Locus amoenus und sein Gegenstück in Od. 5’, Hermes 146 (2018), 132–148.
10. ‘Zur Beschreibung des Alkinoos-Palasts (Od. 7,84–132)’, Philologus 162 (2018), 189–207.
11. ‘Aristotle, Poetics 23, 1459a35–37’, Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 161 (2018), 287–294.
12. ‘ΚΛΕΟΣΑΦΘΙΤΟΝ in Sappho fr. 44.4 V’, Hermes 147 (2019), 392–405.
13. ‘The Cyrus Anecdote in Herodotus 9.122’, Classical Quarterly 70 (2020), 16–26.
14. ‘Septer and Spear in Euripides’ Iphigenia in Tauris’, Museum Helveticum 77 (2020), 188–193

15. ‘The Dramatization of Emotions in Iliad 24.552–658’, Philologus 164 (2020), 181–196.
16. ‘Blameless Aegisthus Revisited’, Mnemosyne 74 (2021) forthcoming
17. ‘A Note on Aratus’ Phaenomena 100–107’, Athenaeum (2021/22) forthcoming

18.‘Homeric ΠΕΡΘΕΤΟ (Il. 12.15), ΠΕΡΘΟΜΕΝΗ (Il. 2.374 = 4.291 = 13.816), and ΠΕΡΘΑΙ (Il. 16.708)’, Glotta (2022) forthcoming

19.‘Athena’s Mention of Orestes in Hom. Od. 1.298–302’, Greece & Rome (2023) forthcoming

Review

1.‘Recent Homeric Research’, Museum Sinicum 1 (2018), 217–230.

General Audience

1.“古典语文学之旅”（访谈），文汇学人，2019.03

2.访谈，北大古典语文学，2019.06

Past Courses

SS 2017 Elementary Ancient Greek II

AS 2017 Herodotus’ Histories; Xenophon’s Anabasis

SS 2018 The Odyssey; Euripides’ Iphigenia in Tauris

AS 2018 Thucydides’ History; Aristotle’s Poetics

SS 2019 The Iliad; Sophocles’ Philoctetes; Callimachus’ Hymns; Dionysius of Halicarnassus’ On Thucydides

AS 2019 Elementary Ancient Greek I; Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe

SS 2020 Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe (continued)

Summer School 2020 Elementary Ancient Greek II (Plato’s Republic X)

AS 2020 Elementary Latin I; Herodotus’ Histories III; Hippocratic Corpus; five lectures (Textual Criticism, Quellenkritik, Ancient Greek Historiography, Hippocratic Corpus, Academic Writing); Colloquium (Ancient Greek Philology)

Current Curses

SS 2021 Elementary Latin II (Caesar’ Bellum Civile & Cicero’s Brutus); The Iliad IX; Aeschylus’ Suppliants; Apollonius of Rhodes’ Argonautica IV; Colloquium (Ancient Greek Philology)

Supervised Dissertation

1. BA-Dissertation, Jieyu Zhang, ‘Jacob Wackernagels sprachwissenschaftliche Werke im Licht der Indogermanistik seiner Zeit’ (in German, German/Classics, Peking University, 2019)