LARA CAROLINE WILLIAMS BLANCHARD 魏嘉麗 Curriculum Vitae 228 High Street ♦ Geneva, New York 14456-2243 tel: 315.781.5489

Luce Associate Professor of East Asian Art tel: 315.781.3893 Art & Architecture Department, Hobart and William Smith Colleges fax: 315.781.3689 300 Pulteney Street ♦ Geneva, New York 14456-3397 [email protected]

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York. 2001– Luce Associate Professor of East Asian Art (2008– ). Henry Luce Assistant Professor of East Asian Art (2001–2008). Courses: Introduction to Asian Art (formerly East Asian Art Survey); The Arts of China; Chinese Painting, Tang to Yuan Dynasties; Chinese Pictures, Ming Dynasty to Modern; Japanese Art & Culture; Buddhist Art & Architecture; Arts of the Landscape and the Garden in China & Japan; Telling Tales: Narrative in Asian Art; Courtesan Culture in China & Japan; Seminar: Gender & Painting in China; First-Year Seminar: Art + Ideas + East + West; Introduction to Women’s Studies.

The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Summer 1998 Instructor, Department of the History of Art. Course: Picturing Chinese Femininity and Masculinity: Gender and Painting in the Song and Yuan Dynasties.

EDUCATION

The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. 1990–2001 Field of Specialization: History of Chinese Art. Adviser: Professor Martin J. Powers. Dissertation: “Visualizing Love and Longing in Song Dynasty Paintings of Women.” Ph.D., December 2001 Master’s Thesis: “Poetic References and Painted Images: Allusion and Metaphor in the A.M., August 1992 Work of the Qing Dynasty Artist Zhu Da.”

Mandarin Training Center, National Taiwan Normal University. 1993–94 Courses: Modern and Classical Chinese.

The College of William and Mary in Virginia. 1984–88 Concentrations: Art History, Mathematics. B.A., May 1988

HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, & AWARDS

Franklin R. Buchanan Prize for Asia Curriculum Materials. The Association for 2016 Asian Studies. For the co-authored textbook Asian Art.

Freeman Asia Senior Colloquium Grant. Freeman Foundation. 2009–11

Honorable Mention, Career Enhancement Fellowships for Junior Faculty. (2004–2005) Woodrow Wilson National Fellowships Foundation.

Faculty Research Grant. Hobart and William Smith Colleges. 2003–13

Women’s Studies/ Rackham One-Term Dissertation Fellowship. Women’s 2001 Studies Program/ Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan. Lara C. W. Blanchard, Curriculum Vitae 2

Center for Chinese Studies Endowment Award. Center for Chinese Studies, 2000–2001, 1996–97, University of Michigan. 1994

Rackham Discretionary Funds. Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan. 2000

Rackham Merit Fellowship. Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan. 1999–2000, 1990–94

Rackham Travel Grant. Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan. 1999, 2000

Department of the History of Art Block Grant. Department of the History of Art, 1998–99, 1995 University of Michigan.

Freer Fellowship. Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution. 1998

Finalist, Ittleson Fellowship. Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, (1997–99) National Gallery of Art.

“Community of Scholars” Eight-Month Fellowship for Research on Women 1997 and Gender. Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan.

Center for Chinese Studies Peking-American School Fellowship for 1996–97 Traditional Chinese Studies. Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan.

Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship. Center for Chinese 1996–97 (declined) Studies, University of Michigan.

National Taiwan Normal University Advanced Language Training 1993–94 Fellowship. Ministry of Education, Republic of China.

Katherine Taylor Fellowship. Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan. 1993

Marvin Eisenberg Award for Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies. 1992 Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan.

BOOKS

Asian Art. 1st ed. Co-author with Dorinda Neave and Marika Sardar. Upper Saddle 2015 River, N.J.: Pearson.

ARTICLES & ESSAYS

“Imagining Du Liniang in The Peony Pavilion: Female Painters, Self- (2016) Portraiture, and Paintings of Beautiful Women in Late Ming China.” For (invited, refereed) Women, Gender and Art in Asia, c. 1500–1900, edited by Melia Belli Bose (London and New York: Routledge).

“Mou Yi’s Pounding Cloth: Painting, Play, Reference, and Discourse in Song 2013 China.” Artibus Asiae 73, no. 2: 295–341. (refereed)

“Traces of Collaboration: Empress Yang’s Captions for Xia Gui’s Twelve 2009 Views of Landscape.” Co-author with Kara J. Kenney (William Smith College ’06). Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender and Culture 18 (Fall): 6–33.

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“A Scholar in the Company of Female Entertainers: Changing Notions of 2007 Integrity in Song to Ming Dynasty Painting.” NAN NÜ: Men, Women and Gender (refereed) in China 9, no. 2: 189–246.

“Huizong’s New Clothes: Desire and Allegory in Court Ladies Preparing 2006 Newly Woven Silk.” Ars Orientalis 36: 111–35. (refereed)

“Lonely Women and the Absent Man: The Masculine Landscape as 2000 Metaphor in the Song Dynasty Painting of Women.” In Gendered Landscapes: An (refereed) Interdisciplinary Exploration of Past Place and Space, ed. Bonj Szczygiel, Josephine Carubia and Lorraine Dowler (University Park, Pa.: The Center for Studies in Landscape History, The Pennsylvania State University), 33–47.

REVIEWS & ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

“Art and Socio-political Context in Southern Song and Yuan China (1127– 2013 1368).” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 56, no. 1: 89–97. (invited)

Review, Empresses, Art, and Agency in Song Dynasty China, by Hui-shu Lee. 2011 The Journal of Asian Studies 70, no. 2 (May): 528–29. (invited)

“Chinese Paintings of Elite Women (Shinü hua).” In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of 2008 Love, Courtship, and Sexuality through History, Vol. 2: The Medieval Era, ed. William E. Burns (Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Press), 53–54.

WORK IN PROGRESS

Book: Song-Dynasty Figures of Longing and Desire: Gender and Interiority (under revision) in Chinese Painting and Poetry. Leiden: Brill, in press.

Essay: “Redefining Female Subjectivity: Gendered Gazes and Feminist (under submission) Reinterpretations in the Art of Cui Xiuwen and Yu Hong.” For the edited (invited) collection (En)gendering Women’s Art.

Essay Collection: Gender, Continuity, and Modernity in East Asian Art, (in progress) 16th–20th Centuries. Co-edited with Kristen L. Chiem.

ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS & CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

“Playing upon the Concept of Women’s Work: Silk as Gendered Medium in 31 March 2016 the Paintings of Yu Hong.” For the panel Women, Labor, and Textiles in Contemporary Asian Art. 68th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Seattle, Wash. (31 March–3 April 2016).

Facilitator, Roundtable: Service: Visible and Invisible. For the New York Six 10 April 2014 Liberal Arts Consortium Conference Teaching, Scholarship, and Leadership: Faculty of Color (invited) in the Liberal Arts. Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, N.Y. (10–11 April 2014).

“Reclaiming Female Subjectivity: Images of Women, Past and Present, in the 28 September 2013 Art of Cui Xiuwen and Yu Hong.” For the symposium Female Embodiment of the (invited) Visual World: Women’s Art in Contemporary China. Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me.

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“Rethinking Male-Authored Images of Women: Feminism and the Gaze in 30 August 2013 the Works of Two Contemporary Chinese Artists.” Friday Faculty Lunch Series, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, N.Y.

“Interiority and Surface, Gender and Performance: Mirrors and Makeup in 17 March 2012 Song Dynasty Painting and Poetry.” For the panel Rhetorics of Eroticism in Chinese Art and Literature, Song to Ming. 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Toronto, Ont. (15–18 March 2012).

“Mirrors, Makeup, and Meaning in Song Dynasty Painting and Poetry.” 9 March 2012 Friday Faculty Lunch Series, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, N.Y.

Discussant, Panel: Redrawing the Map: Displacement and Geography in 21 June 2009 Song-Yuan Literary and Visual Discourses. For the Thirteenth Asian Studies Conference Japan, Sophia University, Tokyo (20–21 June 2009).

“The Emperor’s New Clothes: Desire and Politics in Huizong’s Court Ladies 25 March 2007 Preparing Newly Woven Silk.” For the panel What Is Not-So-Ordinary about the Ordinary: Decoding the Social and Political Rhetoric behind Early Modern Chinese Imagery. 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Boston, Mass. (22–25 March 2007).

“Desire and Politics in Emperor Huizong’s Court Ladies Preparing Newly 2 March 2007 Woven Silk, ca. 1100-25, or, How an Erotic Court Painting Actually Reflects Well on the Chinese Emperor!” Friday Faculty Lunch Series, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, N.Y.

“The Song Dynasty Courtesan’s Performance of Desire: Subjectivity and 3 June 2005 Representation in Chinese Poetry and Painting.” For Singing Girls, Lesbian Courtesans, and Happy Hookers: Hidden Pleasures in China and the United States, Thirteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women: “Sin Fronteras: Women’s Histories, Global Conversations,” Scripps College, Claremont, Calif. (2–5 June 2005).

Co-Chair, Panel: The Song Dynasty Beyond the Song: Its Legacy Within and 19 February 2005 Outside China. With Dr. Roslyn Hammers, Whitman College. For College Art Association 93rd Annual Conference, Atlanta, Ga. (16–19 February 2005).

“Reconfiguring Integrity: The Scholar’s Image in Chinese Painting, Song to 9 November 2002 Ming.” For the symposium New Research on Chinese Painting. University of Michigan (invited speaker) Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Mich.

“Revisiting Han Xizai: Night Revels Reinterpreted by Artists of the People’s 26 October 2002 Republic of China.” For the panel Premodern Iconography and Contemporary Intervisuality of “China.” The New York Conference on Asian Studies 2002 Annual Meeting, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (25–26 October 2002).

“Sexuality and Politics in Twelfth-Century Chinese Painting.” Friday Faculty 1 February 2002 Lunch Series, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, N.Y.

“The Traveling Man’s Longing for One Left Behind: An Alternate Reading of 23 March 2001 the Lonely Woman in Song Dynasty Paintings.” For the panel Pygmalion Revisited: Female Image as Male Self-Representation. 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, Ill. (22–25 March 2001).

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“Evoking Feelings (Qing) through Scenes (Jing): A Pictorial Strategy for 28 October 2000 Representing Longing in Song Paintings of Lonely Women.” For the panel Women and/as Rhetorical Tropes in Chinese Poetic and Visual Cultural Productions, Han through Song, American Association for Chinese Studies 42nd Annual Conference. San Francisco, Calif. (27–29 October 2000).

“Lonely Women and the Absent Man: The Masculine Landscape as 31 May 1999 Metaphor in Song Dynasty Paintings of Women.” For Panel VII-C, “Landscape Representation III,” of the conference Gendered Landscapes: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Past Place and Space. The Center for Studies in Landscape History, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. (29 May–1 June 1999).

“A Scholar-Painter’s Appropriation of the Past: Rhetoric in the Southern Song 10 October 1998 Handscroll Pounding Cloth.” For the panel “Reconfiguring the Past” of the graduate student conference Souvenir. Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. (10 October 1998).

“Reveling in the Company of Courtesans: The (Mis)representation of 5 December 1997 Romance in a Song Dynasty Painting.” For an interdisciplinary panel, Love and Sex/ Violence and Patriarchy: Critical Reflections on Gendered Representation. Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.

ACADEMIC SERVICE, HOBART & WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES

Faculty Supervisor, Independent Studies and Course Equivalents. Kimberly Giegerich ’15 (Art History minor), “Avant-Garde Art and Identity in Postwar Spring 2015 Japan: Tōmatsu Shōmei, Kikuhata Mokuma, and Kudō Tetsumi.” Kaytlynn Lynch ’15 (Art History major), “Georgia O’Keeffe’s Art: An Exploration of Spring 2015 Sexual Expression, Sexual Subjectivity and Psychoanalytic Interpretation.” Hannah Root ’15 (Art History major), “A Brief of the Life, Theory, and Work of Spring 2015 Marcel Duchamp.” Tianchu Wu ’14 (Art History major), “Political Pop Art in Late Twentieth-Century Fall 2014 China.” Justine Lynch ’14 (Art History major), “Traditional Chinese Painters and Painting.” Fall 2013 Christina Lam ’10 (Asian Languages and Cultures major), “Chinese Conversation.” Fall 2008 Timothy Martin ’07 (Critical Social Studies major/Studio Art minor), “Art Spring 2007 Propaganda and China’s Great Leap Forward.” Christopher Slaby ’09 (Art History/Asian Languages and Cultures major), “Art + Fall 2006 Ideas + East + West.” Kathleen Buchanan ’06 (Art History major), “Christie’s Internship.” Spring 2006 Danielle Henson ’06 (Art History minor), “Purpose and Operation of a Museum in Fall 2005 the World of Art.” Barbara Johnson ’08 (Art History major), “Holy Madness Catalog.” Fall 2005 Lauren Rennalls ‘06 (Women’s Studies minor), “Courtesan Culture in China and Fall 2005 Japan.” Dominique Biancosino ‘05 (Art History major), “Landscapes and Gardens.” Spring 2005 Gwynne Decker ‘04 (Asian Languages and Cultures major/ Art History minor), Spring 2004 “Mystique of the Moon in Chinese and Japanese Art and Poetry.” Robert Portik Middleton ‘04 (Asian Languages and Cultures/ Art History major), Fall 2003 “Propaganda Posters of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966–1976.”

Faculty Adviser or Sponsor, Internships. Alexandra Warner ’16 (Art History major), Christie’s, New York; and ArtLifting, Summer 2015 Boston, Mass. Francesca Pittelli ’14 (Art History major), Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass. Summer 2012 Danielle Pozzi ’13 (Art History major), Phillips de Pury & Company, New York. Summer 2012 Lara C. W. Blanchard, Curriculum Vitae 6

Elsa Vreeland ’13 (Art History major), Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York. Summer 2012 Barbara Johnson ’08 (Art History major), Rubin Museum of Art, New York. Summer 2005 Kathleen Buchanan ’06 (Art History major), Christie’s, Washington, D.C. Summer 2005 Danielle Henson ’06 (Art History minor), Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, N.Y. Summer 2005 Laura C. Maier ‘05 (Art History major), Geneva Collaborative Internship Program/ Fall 2003 Terwilliger and Memorial Day Museums, Waterloo, N.Y.

Review Committees. Review I, Professor Gabriella D’Angelo, Art & Architecture Department. Spring 2016 Review I, Professor Liliana Leopardi, Art & Architecture Department. Spring 2015 Review I, Professor Kirin Makker, Art & Architecture Department. Spring 2012 Review I, Professor Darrin Magee, Environmental Studies Program. Spring 2010 Review II, Professor Patricia Mathews, Art Department. Fall 2008 Review II, Professor Michael Tinkler, Art Department. Fall 2007 Review II, Professor J. Stanley Mathews, Art Department and Architectural Studies Fall 2005 Program. Review II, Professor Nicholas H. Ruth, Art Department. Fall 2004 Review I, Professor J. Stanley Mathews, Art Department and Architectural Studies Spring 2003 Program.

Advising. Asian Student Union. 2003– Major and Minor Adviser, Asian Studies Program. 2002– Major and Minor Adviser, Art & Architecture Department. 2002– First-Year Adviser. 2002–2003, 2006–2007, 2010–12 Human Rights Awareness House. 2002-2003

Guest Lecturer. ARCH 110, Introduction to Architecture, for Professor Kirin Makker. Spoke on Spring 2010 modern architecture in Tokyo. ASN 101, Foundations of Asian Civilizations, for Professors Lowell Bloss and Lisa Fall 2007 Yoshikawa. Spoke on art and architecture of five significant Buddhist movements: Theravada, Mahāyāna, Esoteric, Pure Land, and Zen. A Weekend of Workshops for Asia Scholars. Spoke on the idealized feminine image in Spring 2007 Chinese and Japanese art. Learning and Teaching about China. Introduced Chinese art and architecture to local Fall 2006 teachers in a workshop sponsored by the HWS Asia Teaching Partnership and Wayne- Finger Lakes Teacher Resource Center. ART 103, East Asian Art Survey, for Professor Samuel Yunxiang Liang. Spring 2005 Spoke on paintings of the Northern Song dynasty. ART 110, Visual Culture, for Professor J. Stanley Mathews. Spoke on indigenous Fall 2003 architectural styles, religion, and politics in Japan. Environmental Studies Summer Youth Institute. Spoke on the representation of nature in 2002, 2006–2009 Chinese and Japanese art.

Honors Program. Adviser for Katherine Cornell ‘15, “Mughal Gardens and Imperial Patronage: Dynastic 2014–2015 Heritage, Political Space, and Symbology from Babur to Shah Jahan,” Honors in Art History. Field Examiner for Sarah Lansaw ‘15, Honors in Art History. Spring 2015 Faculty Examiner for Subin Nepal ‘15, Honors in Political Science. Spring 2015 Adviser for Morgan Williamson ‘12, “Snake/Skin: A Study of the Transformation of 2011–2012 Women into Reptiles in Japanese Narrative Art,” Honors in Art History. Field Examiner for Anna Rusch ’11, Honors in Art History. Spring 2011 Field Examiner for Emily Sarokin ’10, Honors in Art History. Spring 2010 Adviser for Christopher Slaby ’09, “Rewriting Yuan Politics: The Blue-Green 2008–2009 Landscapes of Qian Xuan,” Honors in Art History. Lara C. W. Blanchard, Curriculum Vitae 7

Adviser for Kara Kenney ‘06, “The Reading of Pictorial Imagery: Empress Yang’s 2005–2006 Collaboration with Xia Gui on Twelve Views of Landscape,” Honors in Art History. Faculty Examiner for Catherine Cragg ‘05, Honors in Sociology. Spring 2005 Faculty Examiner for Anthony Patrone ‘04, Honors in Political Science and Spring 2004 International Relations. Faculty Examiner for Colleen Logan ‘02, High Honors in History. Spring 2002

Art and Architecture Department. Member, De-Accessioning Committee for the Arts Collection. Fall 2013– Chair. Spring 2013– Admitted Student Open House. Spring 2010 Co-Author, Standards and Criteria Document, Art History. 2008–2009 Selection Committee, Eric Cohler Internship and Travel Award. 2004–2006, 2013–14 Co-Author, Art History Departmental Report, Middle States Review, with Prof. J. Spring 2003 Stanley Mathews. Advising Fair, New Student Orientation. Fall 2002 Community Fair, Open House for Accepted Students. Spring 2002–Spring 2008

Search Committees. Chair, Visiting Assistant Professor search, modern & contemporary art history, 2014–15 Art & Architecture Department. Diversity Liaison, Assistant Professor (tenure-track) search, microeconomics, 2014–15 Economics Department. Diversity Liaison, Assistant Professor (tenure-track) search, Latin America, Political 2014–15 Science Department. Diversity Liaison, Visiting Assistant Professor search, LGBT Studies Program. 2013–14 Diversity Liaison, Assistant Professor (tenure-track) search, German Area Studies 2013–14 Program. Diversity Liaison, Assistant or Associate Professor (tenure-track) search, American 2012–13 Studies Program. Member, Assistant Professor (tenure-track) search, early modern European art & 2011–12 architectural history, Art & Architecture Department. Member, Assistant Professor (tenure-track) search, architectural design, Architectural 2007–2008 Studies Program. Member, Assistant Professor (tenure-track) search, Asian religions, Religious Studies 2007–2008 Department. Member, Assistant Professor (tenure-track) search, East Asia, History Department. 2005–2006 Member, Tanaka Lectureship in Japanese Language search, Asian Languages & Spring 2002 Cultures Department.

Committees of the Faculty. Member, Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice Committee, Standing Subcommittee of 2011–12 the Committee on the Faculty. Secretary, Executive Committee of the Faculty. 2010–11 Member, Grievance Committee. 2006 Member, Status of Women Work Group, Ad Hoc Committee reporting to the Fall 2005–Fall 2006 Committee on the Faculty. Untenured Faculty Representative, Executive Committee of the Faculty. Spring 2004–Fall 2005 Member, Off-Campus Study Internal Review Committee, Ad Hoc Committee Spring–Summer 2002 reporting to the Provost.

Program Committee, Fisher Center for the Study of Women and Men Speaker 2009–12 Series.

Facilitator, Freeman Asia Senior Colloquium Grant. Organized meetings of the 2009–11 faculty of the Asian Studies program to discuss and gather materials for the creation of a senior capstone experience for Asian Studies majors. Lara C. W. Blanchard, Curriculum Vitae 8

Luce Campus Nominating Committee, Salisbury Center for Career Services. 2009–10 Interviewed student applicants for national competition of Luce Scholarships.

Fulbright Campus Nominating Committee, Salisbury Center for Career 2009 Services. Interviewed student applicants for national competition of Fulbright grants.

Editor, A Rough Guide to H&WS, or Things We Wish We Had Known 2004–2005 Earlier! Info, Tips, and Hints for New Faculty, 4th–5th ed.

Panelist, On the Inside and Outside of Culture—A Panel Discussion. Spring 2004 Sponsored by the Center for Global Education as part of International Week.

Organizer, “The Art of Setting Stones: 1500 Years of Gardening in Japan.” Spring 2004 Invited landscape architect Marc P. Keane to speak as part of International Week. Sponsored by the Provost’s Speakers Fund, the Center for Global Education, the Art Department, and the Asian Languages & Cultures Department.

Participant, New Faculty Orientation. Fall 2003

Faculty Facilitator, Freeman Asia Tour, Kyoto, Japan. For the study tour Summer 2003 sponsored by the Asian Languages and Cultures Department with the support of the Freeman Foundation.

Faculty Representative, Technos International Week, Tokyo, Japan. For the Summer 2003 study tour sponsored by Technos International College and the Tanaka Ikueikai Trust.

Judge, Holland Prize Competition. Physics Department. Spring 2003

Organizer, “The Causes and Lessons of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.” Spring 2003 Invited writer and democracy activist Yi Ping to speak as part of the Human Rights & Genocide Forum.

Member, Human Rights & Genocide Forum. 2002–

Asian Specialist, China Study Tour. Sponsored by the Asian Languages and Summer 2002 Cultures Department with support from the Henry Luce Foundation.

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Literacy Volunteers of Ontario County. Participated in Hobart and William Smith 2012– Colleges’ faculty team for annual adult spelling bee.

Planning Committee, Geneva Chinese for Kids. Participated in curriculum 2009–15 planning, teaching, and fundraising for a local children’s Mandarin language class.

Children’s Hours School. Led a field trip for kindergarteners and first-graders to 2010 view the Art & Architecture Student Show at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

Children’s Hours School. Discussed a Chinese girl’s paintings with kindergarteners 2007 and first-graders.

Corning-Kakegawa Committee of the Sister Cities Association. Lectured on the 2006, 2008, 2009 arts and architecture of Japan.

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MUSEUM & GALLERY EXPERIENCE

Museum Assistant. University of Michigan Museum of Art. Provided general Summer, 1993 assistance to Dr. Marshall P. S. Wu, Curator of Asian Art. Used cataloguing, word processing and communications software for IBM-compatible computers.

Assistant Museum Registrar. Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and 1988–90 Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. Curated three in-house exhibitions: Eastern Ceramics (1990), Oriental Expressions (1989), and Chronicle of Stuarts’ Fate: Engravings by Cornelis Danckerts (1989). Gave gallery talks and researched Asian art objects. Catalogued new acquisitions and temporary loans. Wrote condition reports on works of art from permanent collection and traveling exhibitions. Proofread museum press releases, publications, exhibition didactics and labels. Completed entry and exit receipts and outgoing loan forms. Updated insurance schedule of permanent collection. Packed works of art. Helped install and dismantle exhibitions. Replaced paper in hygrothermographs. Used WordPerfect software for IBM-compatible computers. Provided general clerical support to Registrar.

Student Assistant. Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and Mary. Part-time, 1987–88 Typed accessions cards to prepare for accreditation of museum by the American Association of Museums. Provided general clerical support to Registrar.

Intern. The Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, Virginia. Assisted Curator of Decorative Summer, 1987 Arts by making an inventory of objects in the historic Willoughby-Baylor House. Assisted Registrar by updating accessions cards, compiling gallery lists and making an inventory of objects in storage.

Exhibition Assistant. Andrews Hall Foyer and Gallery, College of William and Part-time, 1986–87 Mary. Typed labels. Helped dismantle exhibitions. Packed works of art.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Associate in Research. East Asia Program, Cornell University. 2002–

Web Developer. Visual Resources Collection, Department of the History of Art, 2000–2001 University of Michigan. Helped design, create and maintain online study galleries for history of art courses. Photographed and scanned images. Used Adobe PhotoShop and Macromedia Dreamweaver software for Apple Macintosh computers.

Assistant in Research. Asian Art Archives, Visual Resources Collection, Summer, 1999 Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan. Accessioned and catalogued photograph acquisitions. Located photographs for publication. Filed photographs and negatives.

Assistant Editor. Newsletter, East Asian Art & Archaeology, Department of the Summer, 1999; History of Art/ Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan. Summarized Part-time, 1995–97 information on Asian art exhibitions, symposia, lectures, grants, publications and book dealers for newsletter published three times a year. Assisted with layout of printed version of the Newsletter. Translated information into HTML for online version of the Newsletter. Maintained and updated web site. Translated Chinese, Japanese, French, German and Dutch sources. Proofread copy. Used Microsoft Word, Adobe Pagemaker, communications software and Unix operating system for Apple Macintosh computers.

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Michigan. Maintained order and organization in Asian-language book stacks. Reshelved books. Filed shelf list cards. Reviewed Asian-language publishers’ catalogues and recommended books to order.

LANGUAGES

Chinese (Mandarin dialect). Advanced spoken fluency and reading knowledge. Facility with both traditional and simplified characters.

Classical Chinese. Advanced reading knowledge.

Japanese. Basic spoken fluency and intermediate reading knowledge.

French. Intermediate spoken fluency and advanced reading knowledge.

German. Basic reading knowledge.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS

Member, Arts of China Consortium. 2003–

Associate in Research, East Asia Program, Cornell University. 2002–

Member, Association for Asian Studies. 1996–

Member, College Art Association. 1996–