About Me
Affiliation
Harvard University
Advisor
Dr. Yukio Lippit
Dissertation committee
Dr. Yukio Lippit, Dr. Melissa McCormick, Dr. Ryuichi Abé
Focus
The art of Kasuga Taisha, with a focus on phenomenology, ecocriticism and landscape painting
Education
2018
PhD History of Art
Harvard University
2013
MA Japanese Studies
SOAS, University of London
2012
Licenciada en Historia del Arte
Universidad de Granada
- UCEAP Participant, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY [2012]
- Exchange Student, HUMAN ACADEMY (OSAKA, JAPAN) [2010]
Honors, Awards and Grants
2024
Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies Dissertation Writing Grant
Affiliation with Kyoto Institute of Technology (京都工芸繊維大学)
2023-2024
Canon Foundation in Europe Research Fellowship
Affiliation with Waseda University (早稲田大学)
2022-2023
Japan Foundation fellowship for Doctoral Students
Affiliation with Waseda University (早稲田大学)
2021
Graduate Summer Language Grant for the Summer Kanbun course at IUC Yokohama (online)
REISCHAUER INSTITUTE OF JAPANESE STUDIES (HARVARD UNIVERSITY)
2020
Graduate Summer Language Grant for the Summer Modern Japanese course at IUC Yokohama (online)
REISCHAUER INSTITUTE OF JAPANESE STUDIES (HARVARD UNIVERSITY)
2019
Graduate Summer Language Grant for the KCJS Classical Japanese course at Doshisa University (Kyoto, Japan)
REISCHAUER INSTITUTE OF JAPANESE STUDIES (HARVARD UNIVERSITY)
2018
Ishibashi Foundation Scholarship for Ishibashi Foundation Summer School in Japanese Arts and Cultural Heritage, University of East Anglia (United Kingdom)
ISHIBASHI FOUNDATION
2018
Korean Art Workshop for Doctoral Students: Arts of the Joseon Dynasty (Seoul, South Korea)
KOREA FOUNDATION
2014-2016
Fulbright Fellowship for Graduate Studies in the USA
FULBRIGHT COMMISSION / JUNTA DE ANDALUCÍA
2015
Cathleen M. Murnane Travel Scholarship Fund
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART, THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
2015
Graduate Research Small Grants Program
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, ARTS AND HUMANITIES, THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
2009-2010
Initiation to Research Grant
Project: «La imagen del encadenado en el arte del siglo XIX»
UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA
2009
Initiation to Research Fellowship
CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS (CSIC)
Image: Sesson Shūkei, Landscape with Rocky Precipice, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Professional Experience
2023
2020-2021
Adjunct Professor
«History of Japanese Art»
CIEE KYOTO
Graduate teaching fellow
«Intro to Japanese Art»
«Landmarks of World Architecture»
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
2016-2017
Graduate teaching assistant
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
2016
Curatorial Intern, Japanese Art
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
2015
Research Assistant to Professor Gennifer Weisenfeld
DUKE UNIVERSITY
2014
Visitors Services Assistant
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY (London, United Kingdom)
2008
Visitors Services Assistant
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY (London, United Kingdom)
2006-2008
Editor and graphic designer
REVISTA ONIRIA
Image: Deer Mandala of Kasuga Shrine, The Met
Presentations
2024
«Immanence and Ecology in the Art of the Kasuga Cult:
The Kasuga Deer Mandala»
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY-WASEDA UNIVERSITY WORKSHOP 2023, TOKYO
2023
«From Ruins to Salvation:
Death and Hell in the Kasuga Faith»
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE RUINS IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL JAPAN
WASEDA UNIVERSITY, TOKYO (INVITED)
«Immanence and Ecology in the Art of the Kasuga Cult»
KYOTO ASIAN STUDIES GROUP
2016
«Chinese Art Exhibitions in Spain, 1939-1990: Discovering a Chronology»
25th COLUMBIA CONFERENCE ON EAST ASIA
«For Painting is Reclaiming: Matsui Fuyuko’s Scattered Deformities in the End as a Re-vision of a Decameron Story»
SPRING GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART, THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
2011
«Distopía y deshumanización en el arte último: el ciberpunk. Un viaje a través del cine»
V MEDITERRANEAN CONGRESS OF AESTHETICS, Cartagena (Spain)
2008
«Poéticas de la Tecnología y el Consumo» (invited)
NEO3, CONGRESS OF LITERATURE, Barcelona (Spain)
Image: Bodhisattva Kannon. The British Museum.