Guoshi (Cedric) Li

PhD Candidate - Classical Archaeology

M.A. in Classics, Columbia University, 2019

B.A. in Archaeology and Classical Studies, George Washington University, 2016

Guoshi (Cedric) Li is a PhD student on the track of Classical Archaeology. He earned his BA in Archaeology and Classical Studies, with a minor in Italian, from the George Washington University in 2016. Afterwards, he pursued an MA in Classics at Columbia University from 2017 to 2019.

He is most interested in the negotiation between (sub-)literary and visual cultures from the second to seventh century CE. He is keen on joining twentieth-century French philosophy (especially Derrida) and Greek literature in cacophonous dialogues. Another major interest of his is art historiography. He pays particular attention to how Roman Kleinkunst has been understood through the theoretical lens of art historians from the Vienna School and Hamburg School. He is concerned with the discursive zone where Kunstwissenschaft, aesthetic theory, and neuroscience cohabit.

He participated in fieldworks at Pompeii and Tivoli. He has also held curatorial internships at the American Academy in Rome, the Textile Museum, and the Freer and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.