the Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor in Classics, published Persius: A Study in Food, Philosophy, and the Figural (University of Chicago Press, 2015) and co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Seneca (Cambridge University Press, 2015) with Alessandro Schiesaro (Università degli Studi di Roma ‘La Sapienza,' Italy). Bartsch-Zimmer also delivered the Renato Poggiolo Lecture at Harvard University.