A LICE Y. T SENG Boston University History of Art and Architecture 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 302, Boston, MA 02215 Tel: (617) 353-1458 Fax: (617) 353-3243 E-mail: aytseng@bu.edu EDUCATION Ph.D., Harvard University, June 2004 Department of History of Art and Architecture Dissertation: Art in Place: The Display of Japan at the Imperial Museums, 1872-1909 Visiting Researcher, University of Tokyo, 2000-02 Architecture Department, Architectural History Laboratory of Professor Suzuki Hiroyuki M.A., Harvard University, March 2000 Department of History of Art and Architecture B.A., Columbia University, May 1996 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 (Associate Chair, 2011-12; Director of Graduate Studies, 2010-11) Assistant Professor, 2004-10 (Director of Graduate Studies, 2009-10) Harvard University, Department of History of Art and Architecture Teaching Fellow, 1999-2000 Sotheby s (New York), Chinese Works of Art Department Administrative Assistant, 1996-97 * Formerly Art History Department of Boston University
Curriculum Vitae, page 2 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) Graduate colloquia and seminars: Arts of Japan Colloquium (AH726), Kyoto Architecture and Urbanism (AH820), Constructs of the Japanese Art Canon (AH820) Course sections offered (as Teaching Fellow) at Harvard University Landmarks of World Architecture, spring 2000 (Professor Neil Levine) Art and Visual Culture, fall 1999 (Professors Henri Zerner and Eugene Wang) SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND DISTINCTIONS ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies) Fellowship, 2012-13 Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies Research Travel Grant, 2011-12 Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies Individual Grant, 2011 Graduate Student Art History Association (GSAHA) Faculty Award, 2010 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, 2006-07 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, 2003-04 Edwin O. Reischauer Institute Dissertation Grant, 2003-04 Ittleson Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery, 2002-03 Fulbright Grant (for doctoral dissertation research in Japan), 2000-02
Curriculum Vitae, page 3 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 Mellon I Fellowship, Harvard University, 1999 PUBLICATIONS Books Conspicuous Construction: New Monuments to Imperial Lineage in Modern Kyoto (book manuscript in progress) The Imperial Museums of Meiji Japan: Architecture and the Art of the Nation. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. (Reviewed in Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Japanese Studies, caareviews, Monumenta Nipponica, and Museum Anthropology Review) Articles and chapters (refereed) The Retirement of Kyoto as Imperial Capital. The Court Historian The International Journal of Court Studies (manuscript submitted; scheduled for publication, winter 2012). Theorizing Architecture as a Fine Art in the Meiji Period. The Review of Japanese Culture and Society (manuscript submitted; scheduled for publication, winter 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, 2009. Domon Ken s Murōji. Pictures and Things: Bridging Visual and Material Culture in Japan, a special issue of Impressions (March 2009): 114-18. Kuroda Seiki s Morning Toilette On Exhibition in Modern Kyoto. The Art Bulletin (September 2008): 418-41. Styling Japan: The Case of Josiah Conder and the Museum at Ueno, Tokyo. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (December 2004): 472-97. Articles and chapters (invited)
Curriculum Vitae, page 4 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 (manuscript submitted; scheduled for publication, spring 2013). "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): 74-79. Book reviews 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): 136-139. Review of International Architecture in Interwar Japan: Constucting Kokusai Kenchiku, by Ken Tadashi Oshima. caareviews (7 January 2011), http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/1572. 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]: 248-56. 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): 177-78. Encyclopedia entries Architecture: East Asia. In Encyclopedia of the Modern World, edited by Peter Stearns. Vol. 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Architecture: Domestic Architecture in East Asia. In Encyclopedia of the Modern World, edited by Peter Stearns. Vol. 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. PUBLIC LECTURES Wood in Traditional Japanese Architecture. Conference: Wood in the 21 st Century, M.I.T., March 2012. The Japanese Museum: How Japanese? How Global? Wheaton College, February 2011. 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 2011. The Invention of the Jidai Matsuri in Modern Kyoto. ASIABU Tea talk, Boston University, December 2010. The Retirement of Kyoto as a Working Capital in the Early Modern and Modern Periods. Workshop: Leisure and the State, Boston University, November 2010.
Curriculum Vitae, page 5 Old Capital, Modern Century: Evidence of Age and Time in Kyoto Architecture. UMass Boston, April 2010. On Exhibition in Modern Kyoto. National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, November 2009. 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 2008. Cultural Modernization and Revitalization: Modern Kyoto as Case Study. Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) conference, April 2008. Gallery talk for the exhibition Chikanobu: Modernity and Nostalgia in Japanese Prints. Boston University Art Gallery, November 2007. An Analysis of Kuroda Seiki s Morning Toilette at the Fourth National Industrial Exhibition. New England East Asian Art History Seminar, Harvard University, March 2007. The Imperial Museums of Meiji Japan. Humanities Center, Stanford University, November 2006. 1895: Kyoto and the Navigation of Japanese Art History. Center for Japanese Studies, University of California, Berkeley, November 2006. The Nude in the Room: On Public Exhibition in Modern Kyoto. Symposium: Promoting and Resisting Westernization in Meiji Japan, Scripps College, September 2006. Preservation and Invention: Japan s Imperial Museums in the Modern Period. East Asia Seminar, Boston University, March 2006. 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 2004. Four Papers by Josiah Conder. University of Chicago, Department of Art History, April 2002. CONFERENCE AND SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPATION Okazaki Park as Kyoto's Modern Center. Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Toronto, March 2012. Kyoto Station as Cultural Gateway and Egress. Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, New Orleans, April 2011. Presenter in the roundtable session Japan as Site and Source of Architectural Hybridity and Modernity. Association for Asian Studies New England Conference, Providence, October 2009.
Curriculum Vitae, page 6 Theorizing Architecture as Fine Art in the Meiji Period. Workshop: Okakura Kakuzo and Meiji Japan, Harvard University, April 2009. Modern Kyoto as Millenial Capital: The Historical Pageant and the Spatial Unfolding of Time. Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Pasadena, April 2009. Building Concepts in the Meiji Period: Theorizing Architecture as a Fine Art. Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 2009. 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 2007. Respondent for the panel Patterns of Inattention: Taxonomic and Lexical Forces in Japanese Art History. Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Boston, March 2007. Organizer of the panel Exhibiting Ueno: Spaces of Enlightenment in Modern Tokyo. Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, San Francisco, April 2006. 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 2006. Co-chair of the session Defining the Arts: The Works of All Nations and an International Taxonomy. College Art Association Annual Conference, Boston, February 2006. The Art of Building for Art: Universal Ideals in a Modern Design for Nara. Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Vancouver, April 2005. Nation on View: Presentation and Representation at the Imperial Museum of Japan. College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, February 2003. Uneasy Reports on Japanese Architecture by Josiah Conder (1852-1920). Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Richmond, April 2002. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Departmental Associate Chair, Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2011-12 Chair, Mamie Hyatt Memorial Book Prize Committee, spring 2011 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2009-11 Member, Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship (GRAF) Award Committee, 2009-11
Curriculum Vitae, page 7 Member, Ad-hoc Architectural Studies and Architectural History Curriculum Committee, Art History Department, 2007-present Member, Ad-hoc Non-Western Curriculum Committee, Art History Department, 2006-07 Member, Islamic Art Search Committee, Art History Department, 2005-06 Graduate Studies Committee, Art History Department, 2005-06 College- and University-wide Member, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Faculty Advisory Committee, 2008-11 Member, Humanities Curriculum Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, 2008-09 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, 2004- present External Member, Selection Committee for Founders Award, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2013 Director, Society of Architectural Historians, New England Chapter, 2012-14 Secretary, Japan Art History Forum (JAHF), 2006-08 Volunteer, Japan Print Access and Documentation Project, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2006-07 Alumni Representative Committee, Columbia University, 2002-present Coordinator, The Ford Foundation Workshop on the Visual and Material Culture of Japan, Harvard University, 1998-2000 Coordinator, Fine Arts Student Association Lecture Series Committee, Harvard University, 1997-98 PEER REVIEW Books University of California Press University of Chicago Press
Curriculum Vitae, page 8 Articles Artibus Asiae International Journal of Cultural Studies Japan Review Monumenta Nipponica Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Association for Asian Studies Association for Museum History College Art Association Japan Art History Forum Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University Society of Architectural Historians (last updated 09.05.12)