Current Graduate Students

Yaying is an MA student who focuses on modern Japanese art in colonial contexts within her larger research interests in the transnational analysis of East Asian visual culture and artistic exchanges.

Suhyun studies modern Japanese art and visual culture, with a focus on issues of post-coloniality, nationhood, and gender. She is interested in artistic responses to and interventions in the legacies of colonialism within Japan.

On-Tsun studies early modern Japanese ink painting and is particularly interested in how ink painters in Japan negotiated their relationship with their Chinese counterparts.

Yuri studies the history of photography in modern Japan, with a particular emphasis on the intersections of imperial/colonial nation-building and photography as reproductive visualizing technology.

Walsh is an MA student interested in avenues of exchange between pre-modern China and Japan, especially as they touch on ideas of space, place, architecture, and the painting genre of jiehua.

Misaki studies early modern Japanese art, with a particular focus on the various modes of production and reception of ceramics and other art objects within the material culture of chanoyu.

Kanako studies transnational artistic interaction between Japanese and American modern and contemporary art, with a particular focus on the works of Japanese female artists who moved to the U.S. in the 1960s.