Carolyn Bell studies the visual and material culture of premodern Japan, focusing on intersections between tea ceremony, the global textile trade, and Buddhist art. She received her BA in Asian Studies and History from Cornell University, where she wrote...
Minkang conducts research on two subjects in Japanese Buddhist painting. One focuses on the concept of scale and its visual and religious implications, with a particular emphasis on Japanese nirvāṇa paintings. The other is the cultural and artistic...
April studies Buddhist art and visual culture of medieval East Asia. She is particularly interested in art's role in the visualization of processes that concern the conceiving and sustaining of life beyond the physical body. Her past projects have focused...
Ruolin Gong studies early to medieval East Asian art, with a particular focus on Chinese and Korean material culture, dress, and interregional exchange. Her research centers on intermediality as evidence of contact, transmission, and reinvention, tracing...
Hiroki conducts research on two subjects in early modern Japanese paintings. One focuses on the stylistic changes in the work of Maruyama Ōkyo, active in eighteenth-century Kyoto, and the way in which they correspond to his relationships with different...
Trevor works broadly on medieval to modern Japanese art. His dissertation, “Dancing with Genji: Painting, Politics, and Performance in Seventeenth Century Japan,” writes across disciplinary boundaries to investigate the relationship between visual culture...
