Dissertation: Art in Place: The Display of Japan at the Imperial Museums,

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1 A LICE Y. T SENG Boston University, History of Art and Architecture 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 302, Boston, MA Tel: (617) Fax: (617) aytseng@bu.edu EDUCATION Ph.D., Harvard University Department of History of Art and Architecture Dissertation: Art in Place: The Display of Japan at the Imperial Museums, M.A., Harvard University Department of History of Art and Architecture B.A., Columbia University Architecture Department (with concentration in Art History) magna cum laude, phi beta kappa EMPLOYMENT Boston University, Department of History of Art and Architecture: Associate Professor, 2010-present Chair ad interim, Director of Architectural Studies, spring 2016 Associate Chair, , Director of Graduate Studies, Assistant Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, TEACHING Courses offered at Boston University Undergraduate lectures: Arts of Asia (AH225), Arts of Japan (AH326), Modern Japanese Architecture (AH328) Undergraduate/Graduate seminars: Japanese Print Culture (AH532), Power, Memory, and Monuments in Japan (AH527), Tokyo: City and Concept (AH531)

2 Curriculum Vitae, page 2 Graduate colloquia and seminars: Arts of Japan Colloquium (AH726), Kyoto Architecture and Urbanism (AH820), Constructs of the Japanese Art Canon (AH820) SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND DISTINCTIONS Graduate Student History of Art & Architecture Association (GSHAAA) Faculty Award, Jeffrey Henderson Senior Research Fellowship, Boston University Center for the Humanities, fall 2015 Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science and Engineering Fellowship, (for the project Mapping the City in the Digital Humanities: First Stop Kyoto) ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies) Fellowship, Research Travel Grant, Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies, 2012 Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies Individual Grant, 2011 Graduate Student Art History Association (GSAHA) Faculty Award, The Humanities Foundation of Boston University, publication subvention, 2007 (for the book The Imperial Museums of Meiji Japan: Architecture and the Art of the Nation) J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Society of Architectural Historians Founder s Award, 2006 (for the article Styling Japan: The Case of Josiah Conder and the Museum at Ueno, Tokyo ) Scott Opler Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Fellowship, 2005 Harvard University Graduate Society Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute Dissertation Grant, Ittleson Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery, Fulbright Grant (for doctoral dissertation research in Japan), Satoh Artcraft Research Foundation and Tsuchiya Foundation Merit Scholarship, 2001 Derek Bok Center Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University, fall 1999 Edwin O. Reischauer Institute Graduate Summer Research Travel Grant, summer 1999

3 Curriculum Vitae, page 3 Mellon I Fellowship, Harvard University, 1999 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Books Building on Ceremony: Imperial Commemorations and the Architecture and Urban Spaces of Modern Kyoto, (manuscript under review) Kyoto Visual Culture in the Early Edo and Meiji Periods: The Arts of Reinvention. Co-edited by Morgan Pitelka and Alice Y. Tseng. London: Routledge, 2016 The Imperial Museums of Meiji Japan: Architecture and the Art of the Nation. Seattle: University of Washington Press, (Reviewed in Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Japanese Studies, caareviews, Monumental Nipponica, Museum Anthropology Review) Articles and chapters (refereed) Introduction. Co-written with Morgan Pitelka, in Kyoto Visual Culture in the Early Edo and Meiji Periods: The Arts of Reinvention. London: Routledge, Urban Parks and Imperial Memory: The Formation of Kyoto Imperial Garden and Okazaki Park as Sites of Cultural Revival. In Kyoto Visual Culture in the Early Edo and Meiji Periods: The Arts of Reinvention. London: Routledge, Theorizing Architecture as a Fine Art in the Meiji Period. The Review of Japanese Culture and Society 24 (2012): The Retirement of Kyoto as Imperial Capital. The Court Historian The International Journal of Court Studies 17.2 (December 2012): Josiah Conder and Early English-Language Historiography of Japanese Architecture. In Kenchikushikō, edited by the Committee for the Publication in Honor of Professor Hiroyuki Suzuki. Tokyo: Chuo Koron Bijutsu Shuppan, Domon Ken s Murōji. Pictures and Things: Bridging Visual and Material Culture in Japan, a special issue of Impressions (March 2009): Kuroda Seiki s Morning Toilette On Exhibition in Modern Kyoto. The Art Bulletin (September 2008): Styling Japan: The Case of Josiah Conder and the Museum at Ueno, Tokyo. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (December 2004):

4 Curriculum Vitae, page 4 Articles and chapters (invited) Portraits of Emperor Taishō: Photography, Repetition, and Meaning. In Photography in East Asian Art, edited by Wu Hung and Chelsea Foxwell. Center for the Art of East Asia, manuscript submitted. Of Emperor and Empire: Architectural Constructions of Imperial Japan. In A Companion to Architecture: The Nineteenth Century, edited by Martin Bressani and Christina Contandriopoulos. Wiley-Blackwell (in press, forthcoming 2016). Refracted Copies of the Imperial City and the Great Audience Hall in East Asia. In Architecture RePerformed: The Politics of Reconstruction, edited by Tino Mager. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, Japan: Building Nation and Empire. In Architecture The Whole Story, edited by Denna Jones. London: Thames & Hudson, Kuroda Seiki no Chosho to Daiyonkai Naikoku Kangyo Hakurankai (Kuroda Seiki's 'Chosho' and the Fourth National Industrial Exhibition). Cross Sections (published by the Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto) (2010): Book reviews Review of Painting Circles: Tsuchida Bakusen and Nihonga Collectives in Early Twentieth Century Japan, by John D. Szostak. Journal of Japanese Studies (Winter 2016): Review of In Pursuit of Universalism: Yorozu Tetsugorō and Japanese Modern Art, by Alicia Volk. International Journal of Asian Studies 9, no. 1 (January 2012): Review of International Architecture in Interwar Japan: Constucting Kokusai Kenchiku, by Ken Tadashi Oshima. caareviews (7 January 2011), Review of What s the Use of Art?: Asian Visual and Material Culture in Context, edited by Jan Mrazek and Morgan Pitelka. Ars Orientalis 36 (2006) [published in 2009]: Review of Common Ground: The Japanese American National Museum and the Culture of Collaborations, edited by Akemi Kikumura-Yano, Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, and James A. Hirabayashi. CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship 3, no. 2 (summer 2006): PUBLIC LECTURES And the Bride Wore White: Japanese Crown Prince Yoshihito s Modern Wedding as National Spectacle. ASIABU Tea talk, Boston University, November Creating National Art, Constructing National Art Museums in Modern Japan. 25 th Annual Harvey Buchanan Lecture, Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Museum of Art, April 2014.

5 Curriculum Vitae, page 5 Beyond National Representation at the National Art Museums of Japan. Symposium: Is Asia One: Towards a Pan-Asian Art History, Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, September Wood in Traditional Japanese Architecture. Conference: Wood in the 21 st Century, M.I.T., March The Japanese Museum: How Japanese? How Global? Ellison Lecture, Wheaton College, February Caught between a World City and a World Heritage City: Lessons from the Kyoto Station Building Competition. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, February The Invention of the Jidai Matsuri in Modern Kyoto. ASIABU Tea talk, Boston University, December The Retirement of Kyoto as a Working Capital in the Early Modern and Modern Periods. Workshop: Leisure and the State, Boston University, November Old Capital, Modern Century: Evidence of Age and Time in Kyoto Architecture. UMass Boston, April On Exhibition in Modern Kyoto. National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, November A Meditation on Interpretative Methods for Architectural History, or How to Talk About Buildings You Haven t Seen. Boston University Guest Scholar Lecture Series, May Cultural Modernization and Revitalization: Modern Kyoto as Case Study. Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) conference, April Gallery talk for the exhibition Chikanobu: Modernity and Nostalgia in Japanese Prints. Boston University Art Gallery, November An Analysis of Kuroda Seiki s Morning Toilette at the Fourth National Industrial Exhibition. New England East Asian Art History Seminar, Harvard University, March The Imperial Museums of Meiji Japan. Humanities Center, Stanford University, November : Kyoto and the Navigation of Japanese Art History. Center for Japanese Studies, University of California, Berkeley, November The Nude in the Room: On Public Exhibition in Modern Kyoto. Symposium: Promoting and Resisting Westernization in Meiji Japan, Scripps College, September Preservation and Invention: Japan s Imperial Museums in the Modern Period. East Asia Seminar, Boston University, March 2006.

6 Curriculum Vitae, page 6 Styling the Nation: Identity and Ambivalence in Josiah Conder s Design for the Museum of Japan. Tufts University, Department of Art and Art History, November Four Papers by Josiah Conder. University of Chicago, Department of Art History, April CONFERENCE AND SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPATION Session chair Gifting Architecture. Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Pasadena, April 2016 The Visual Culture of Japan s Modern Monarchy. Symposium: Histories of Japanese Art and Its Global Contexts, University of Heidelberg, October 2015 Panelist in the film screening and discussion session Hiroshima and the Postwar Japanese Experience. Boston University, October The Persistent Imperial Portrait: Emperor Taishō as Multifarious Icon. Symposium: Photography and the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago, May 2015 Refracted Copies of Lost Antiquity: Re-Creating the Imperial Audience Hall in Contemporary East Asia. Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Austin (TX), April Presenter in the session Unbinding Japanese Architecture. Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, March Presenter in the faculty roundtable for the symposium Teaching the History of the Built Environment, organized by the New England Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians. Tufts University, October Discussant for the colloquium (Un)Building Colonial Space in Korea, Harvard Graduate School of Design, September Okazaki Park as Kyoto's Modern Center. Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Toronto, March Kyoto Station as Cultural Gateway and Egress. Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, New Orleans, April Presenter in the roundtable session Japan as Site and Source of Architectural Hybridity and Modernity. Association for Asian Studies New England Conference, Providence, October Theorizing Architecture as Fine Art in the Meiji Period. Workshop: Okakura Kakuzo and Meiji Japan, Harvard University, April 2009.

7 Curriculum Vitae, page 7 Modern Kyoto as Millenial Capital: The Historical Pageant and the Spatial Unfolding of Time. Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Pasadena, April Building Concepts in the Meiji Period: Theorizing Architecture as a Fine Art. Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago, March Postwar Serenity and Loss in Domon Ken s Portrait of Kannon. Symposium: Objects and Images: Exploring Visual and Material Culture in Japan Honoring the Work of Henry D. Smith II, Columbia University, May Respondent for the panel Patterns of Inattention: Taxonomic and Lexical Forces in Japanese Art History. Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Boston, March Organizer of the panel Exhibiting Ueno: Spaces of Enlightenment in Modern Tokyo. Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, San Francisco, April What s in a Name? What s in a Space? The Hakubutsukan and Bijutsukan of Ueno. Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, San Francisco, April Co-chair of the session Defining the Arts: The Works of All Nations and an International Taxonomy. College Art Association Annual Conference, Boston, February The Art of Building for Art: Universal Ideals in a Modern Design for Nara. Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Vancouver, April Nation on View: Presentation and Representation at the Imperial Museum of Japan. College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, February Uneasy Reports on Japanese Architecture by Josiah Conder ( ). Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Richmond, April PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Departmental Chair ad interim, Director of Architectural Studies, spring 2016 Faculty Advisor, Sequitur (electronic journal published by the graduate students of BU History of Art & Architecture), Fund Manager, endowed funds for graduate student research and travel in the Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2014-present Member, Curriculum Committee,

8 Curriculum Vitae, page 8 Member, Modern Architecture Search Committee, Associate Chair, Department of History of Art and Architecture, , Chair, Mamie Hyatt Memorial Book Prize Committee, spring 2011 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Member, Architectural Studies Committee, Art History Department, 2007-ongoing Member, Ad-hoc Non-Western Curriculum Committee, Art History Department, Member, Islamic Art Search Committee, Art History Department, Member, Graduate Studies Committee, Art History Department, College- and University-wide Board member, Boston University Center for the Study of Asia, 2015-present Member, NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor Selection Committee, 2014 Member, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Faculty Advisory Committee, Member, Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship (GRAF) Award Committee, Humanities Curriculum Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, Graduate Student Organization Travel Grant Award Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, fall 2005 and spring 2006 Executive Committee, International Center for East Asian Archaeology and Cultural History, present External Chair, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Editor-in-chief Search Committee, 2016 Member, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Editorial Advisory Committee, present Second Vice President, Society of Architectural Historians, New England Chapter, 2013, 2014 Member, Selection Committee for John Coolidge Research Fellowship and Robert Rettig Student Annual Meeting Fellowship, Society of Architectural Historians, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

9 Curriculum Vitae, page 9 Member, Selection Committee for Founders Award, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2013 Director, Society of Architectural Historians, New England Chapter, 2012 Secretary, Japan Art History Forum (JAHF), Volunteer, Japan Print Access and Documentation Project, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Alumni Representative Committee, Columbia University, 2002-present Coordinator, The Ford Foundation Workshop on the Visual and Material Culture of Japan, Harvard University, Coordinator, Fine Arts Student Association Lecture Series Committee, Harvard University, PEER REVIEW Books University of California Press, University of Chicago Press, Oxford University Press, Wiley Articles Artibus Asiae, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Japan Review, Monumenta Nipponica, Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide, Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, Archives of Asian Art, TAP Review PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Association for Asian Studies College Art Association Japan Art History Forum Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University Society of Architectural Historians Society of Architectural Historians, New England Chapter (last updated )