Profile

Yuze You is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies in the Department of European Languages and Literatures.

She research focuses on the philology and literature of classical world and the medieval period, especially Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Dante’s Divine Comedy. Her interests include Roman Law in Latin and modern literature traditions, History of Western literature, Medieval manuscripts, Renaissance cultural studies and Greek tragedy. 

Educational Experience

2018-2022 PhD in Italian Studies, Sapienza University of Rome

2014-2018 MA in Classics (Philology, Literature and Story of Ancient World), Sapienza University of Rome

2010-2014 BA in Philosophy (Latin Literature), Sun Yat-sen University

Work Experience

Since 2025 Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Italian Studies, Department of European Languages and Literatures, Peking University

2022-2025 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (Roman Law), Sapienza University of Rome

2023-2025 Honorary Teaching and Research Assistant (Cultrice della materia) to the Chair of Italian Literature, Sapienza University of Rome

Research Interests

Philology, Italian Literature, Classical studies, Roman law

Teaching Courses

Italian language and literature 

Selected Publications

YOU Y. (2025) Article (Italian): The Classical Sources of the Gigantomachy in Dante’s Commedia, Bollettino di italianistica (class A), no. 1, 2025.

YOU Y. (2025) Article (Chinese): Dido’s Death: A Close Reading of Vergil’s Aeneid IV, 630–692, Foreign Literatures (CSSCI), no. 3, 2025.

YOU Y. (2024) Article (Italian): Between poetry and law: reading the expression inicere manum in the Ovidian corpus, Codex (class A), vol. 5, 2024.

YOU Y. (2024) Article (Italian): Jupiter’s love stories: Ovidian myths in the Commedia, Bollettino di italianistica (class A), no. 1-2, 2024.

YOU Y. (2023) Article (English): Ovidian Phaeton in Dante’s Commedia: alter ego and oppositio, Quadern d’Italianistica (A&HCI), vol. 44, no. 1, 2023.

YOU Y. (2023) Article (Chinese): Ovid and Dante’s inventio and their challenge against the literary traditions, Foreign Literature Studies (CSSCI), Serial No. 221, 2023.