Cynthia Liu: co-Founder (PI), Director

Cynthia Liu (DPhil, Oxon) is a 2025 Rome Prize Fellow in Ancient Studies at the American Academy, where she is working on Latin translations of Chinese poetry, combined receptions of Greco-Roman and Chinese antiquities, and Sino-Hellenic/Roman comparative poetics. Before this, she was a Lecturer at the University of Oxford, where she taught Latin and Greek languages and literature for three years. Her research focuses on the way Greco-Roman poetry relates to other discourses, especially philosophy and religion, and how these dynamics play out in their reception. In addition to Classical Reception in Ming-Qing China, she has an interest in Renaissance Italian humanism. Her recent work can be found in Classical Quarterly and Bloomsbury Academic.

Ross Moncrieff: co-Director

Ross Moncrieff is a DPhil candidate in history at All Souls College, Oxford, where he also holds a Fellowship by Examination. He researches early modern British understandings of China, examining how seventeenth and eighteenth century Britons responded to Jesuit sinology. He is broadly interested in intellectual history from a global and comparative perspective, particularly with regards to early modern China and Europe. He currently runs Oxford’s Early Modern Global Intellectual History seminar and the Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia.

Charis Jo: co-Founder (Co-I), co-Director (2024-5)

Charis Jo (DPhil, Oxon) taught Greek and Latin languages and literature at Magdalen and Oriel Colleges, having completed her DPhil on Augustine’s De dialectica. Her research focuses on ancient didactic methods aimed at moral or mental health, and the application of these methods in diverse contexts down to the present day. Charis has written lexicographical articles for the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, co-founded Oxford Latinitas and the Oxford Ancient Languages Society, and has other publications forthcoming on self-imperatives and fear in Greco-Roman and East Asian didactic texts.