Publications

In Press
Wang, Eugene. “The Disarrayed Hills Conceal an Old Monastery: Poetry/Painting Dynamics in Northern Song.” In The Rhetoric of Hiddenness in Traditional Chinese Culture, edited by Paula Varsano. Albany: SUNY Press, In Press.
Submitted
McCormick, Melissa. “Inside Out: Panoramic Genji.” Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art of Japan Scholars' Day, 2015, November, Submitted.
McCormick, Melissa. “Murasaki and Metaphysics: The Thinking Female Author as a Buddhist Icon.” History of Art Department, University of Michigan, 2015, September 23rd., Submitted.
McCormick, Melissa. “Murasaki and Metaphysics: The Thinking Female Author as a Buddhist Icon.” Modern Languages and Comparative Literature Department, Boston University, 2015, November 10th, Submitted.
McCormick, Melissa. “Murasaki and Metaphysics: The Thinking Female Author as Buddhist Icon.” History of Art Department, University of Michigan, 2015, September 23rd., Submitted.
McCormick, Melissa. “Rethinking Patronage Paradigms.” Art History Department, Universidad Etadual de Campinas (UniCamp), Brazil, 2015, May, Submitted.
McCormick, Melissa. “Storyworlds: Architecture and Embodied Cognition in Japanese Scrolls.” Seattle Asian Art Museum, 2015, October 2nd, Submitted.
2018
McCormick, Melissa. The Tale of Genji: A Visual Companion. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. Publisher's Version
2015
McCormick, Melissa. “"Murasaki and Metaphysics: The Thinking Female Author as a Buddhist Icon."Modern Languages and Comparative Literature Department, Boston University, 2015.
Wang, Eugene. “Mind and Murals: The Buddhist Cave Paintings of the Mogao Grottoes in China.” MillerComm Lecture at the Center for Advanced Studies, University of Illinois, 2015, November 9th. View online
Wang, Eugene. “To Move Mountains: Old Script and New Practice.” 14th Annual Heller Lecture at the Vancouver Art Gallery, 2015, March 17th . View online
McCormick, Melissa. “Murasaki Shikibu at Ishiyamadera: An Image between Wa and Kan.” Kokka, no. 1434 (2015): 5-21.
2014
Genjō Sanzō kenkyū: Shaka jūroku zenshin zu o chūshin ni 玄奘三蔵像研究〜釈迦十六善神図を中心に (The Iconography of Xuanzang in Medieval Paintings of the Assembly of Shaka and the Sixteen Protective Deities). 鹿島美術研究.” Kajima Journal of Art History, no. 31 (2014): 226–238.
Sano, Midori, and Rachel Saunders. “E to kotoba no fukusō: Fujita Bijutsukan zō Genjō Sanzō-e ga kataridasu mono.” In 絵とことばの輻輳〜藤田美術館蔵『玄奘三蔵絵』が語り出すもの (Textual Acoustics in the Genjō Sanzō-e), 451–482. Tokyo: Seikansha, 2014.
The New Chamberlain from an Art Historical Perspective
McCormick, Melissa. “The New Chamberlain from an Art Historical Perspective.” In Muromachi jidai no shōjo kakumei: 'Shinkurōdo' emaki no sekai, edited by Abe Yasuro. Tokyo: Kasama Shoin, 2014. View PDF
What Manuscripts Teach
McCormick, Melissa. “What Manuscripts Teach.” In Hābādo daigaku bijutsukanzō genji monogatari, kagerō , edited by Itō Tetsuya. Tokyo: Shintensha, 2014.
The Shadow Image in the Cave: Discourse on Icons
Wang, Eugene. “The Shadow Image in the Cave: Discourse on Icons.” In Early Medieval China: A Sourcebook, edited by Wendy Swartz. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014.
The Thinking Hand: Tools and Traditions of the Japanese Carpenter
Lippit, Yukio, and Mark Mulligan. The Thinking Hand: Tools and Traditions of the Japanese Carpenter. Cambridge: Edwin O. Reischauer Institute, 2014.
2013
Saunders, Rachel. “Gyre and Gimble: The Artist Books of Takei Takeo (1894-1983).” Print Quarterly 30, no. 1 (2013): 23 - 39.
Flower Personification and Imperial Regeneration in The Chrysanthemum Spirit
McCormick, Melissa. “Flower Personification and Imperial Regeneration in The Chrysanthemum Spirit.” In Amerika ni wattata monogatari-e. Tokyo: Perikansha, 2013. View PDF

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