Ph.D. Stanford University (History of Art)
M.A. University of California, Riverside (History of Art)
B.S. University of California, Irvine (Information & Computer Science)

Teaching Interests 

Early modern Japanese art, the supernatural in Japan & China, artistic exchange between East Asia and the Euro-American West, dialog between popular culture and "fine art," museum studies

Courses Regularly Taught:

ARTH 133 East Asian Art, Bronze to Mongols

ARTH 135 Developments in East Asian Art, Modernity

ARTH 231 Prints & Print Culture of Early Modern & Modern Japan

ARTH 232 Warrior Art of Japan & the Ryukyus

ARTH 234 East West Encounters

ARTH 333 Supernatural in Japanese Art

ARTH 334 Women & East Asian Art

MSST 110 Contemporary Issues in Museum Studies

Research Interests:  

I am engaged with the study of eighteenth-century Japanese visual culture, particularly the two-dimensional arts exploring new modes of representation, as well as the pictorial expression of the supernatural.  How did these new techniques formulate a visual "revolution" and how did this revolution impact the rendering of traditional subject matter such as cityscapes?  For supernatural themes, I investigate how the seen, the known, and the unknown intersect to produce imagery linked to literature, religion, and lived experience.

Awards:

2016-2017 ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship

2010 Japan Foundation Short-term Fellowship

Selected Publications & Special Projects

"The Poetry of Play:  Hybridity in Amusements of the Four Seasons of Kyoto," Andon 112 (December, 2021)

"Mapping the Yodo River and Its Banks," Artibus Asiae 80, no. 1 (2020)

"Japanese Postwar Prints -- Repurposing the Past, Innovation in the Present," in Abstract Traditions:  Postwar Japanese Prints from the ²έΑρ³ΙΘΛΙηΗψ Permanent Art Collection, 2016

Student-Faculty Curated Exhibition Project:  "(Mis)Perceptions," Upper Gallery, Richard E. Peeler Art Center, Fall, 2021

Book Project (in progress):  "Seeing the City Anew:  Maruyama Okyo's Representations of Kyoto, 1758-1790"