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Mengzhen Yue is a UKRI-funded Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London. Their research focuses on ancient Greek rhetoric, cross-cultural reception of Graeco-Roman texts in modern China, and the intersection of ethnicity, historiography, and political discourse. They hold a PhD in Classics from University College Dublin (UCD) and previously taught at Shandong University, China.
Education: PhD in Classics (UCD, thesis on Isocrates and Panhellenism), prior lectureship at Shandong University.
Research interests include: 1) Athenian orators' use of 'othering' rhetoric in public contexts like the Assembly and law courts; 2) the reception of Greek classics in China via translation studies, exemplified by analyses of Luo Niansheng's translations of Aeschylus and Aristotle; 3) interdisciplinary frameworks linking rhetoric, identity, and cross-cultural encounters.
Recent research highlights include studying how Athenian orators constructed ethnic identities through spatial narratives and exploring how Cold War-era Chinese translations of Aristotle’s Rhetoric reflected political dynamics. Their work bridges classical antiquity with modern Chinese intellectual history.
- Key Awards:
- International Society of History of Rhetoric Fellowship (2023)
- Fondation Hardt Graduate Bursary (2016)
- Grants: Lead researcher on British Academy-funded Aristotle’s Rhetoric in China project (2023-2024)
- Collaborations: Engaged in cross-cultural dialogues on rhetoric and translation through invited talks in China and Europe
Leverages insights from translation studies, political theory, and spatial analysis to examine how ancient texts shape modern cultural narratives.
