About Me
Affiliation
Harvard University
Advisor
Dr. Yukio Lippit
Dissertation committee
Dr. Yukio Lippit, Dr. Melissa McCormick, Dr. Ryuichi Abé, Dr. Christina Maranci
Focus
The art of Kasuga Taisha, with a focus on phenomenology, ecocriticism and landscape painting
Education
2026
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
2024-2025
2024
2023
2020-2021
Graduate teaching fellow
«The Beauty and Power of Being In-Between: The Story of Armenia»
«Introduction to Japanese Architecture»
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Adjunct Professor
«Japanese Religion & Society»
CIEE KYOTO
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
2026
2025
2024
«Radically Present: Salvation, Vision, and Terrain in the Kasuga Mandara«
AAS 2026 Annual Conference. Panel: The Sacred Landscape in Medieval Japan.
VANCOUVER, CANADA
«When the Night Breathes: Nocturnal Processions and the Sensory Ecology of Ritual in Japan and Spain»
6th Annual Conference on Pre-modern Japanese Religions: ‘The Sounds and Colours of Japanese Rites.’ The School of Religious Studies,
MCGILL UNIVERSITY, CANADA
«Medieval Futures: Augmented Pilgrimage and Virtual Ecologies in Kasuga Mandara«
Getting Ready for the Present: Engaging with the World and the Planet in Contemporary Dystopian and Speculative Narratives
UNIVERSITÀ DI BOLOGNA, ITALY
«The Divine Through the Forest: Material and Imaginal Ecologies of the Kasuga Cult in Medieval Japan»
Sacred Arts 2025: Exploring the Spiritual Dimensions of Artistic Expression and Ritual
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UNITED KINGDOM
«The Path of My Mountain: An Ecocritical Approach to the Art of the Kasuga Cult»
SACRED SPACES AND NON-HUMAN NARRATIVES:
Ecocritical Perspectives on Buddhist Art and Literature.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY (INVITED)
«An Immanent Sun: Immanence and Ecology in the Art of the Kasuga Cult»
Forum Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens. Panel: Mediating Landscape and Nature.
INSTITUT FÜR KUNSTGESCHICHTE OSTASIENS (IKO), UNIVERSITÄT HEIDELBERG, GERMANY
«Immanence and Ecology in the Art of the Kasuga Cult:
The Kasuga Deer Mandala»
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY-WASEDA UNIVERSITY WORKSHOP 2023, TOKYO
2023
«Immanence and Ecology in the Art of the Kasuga Cult»
KYOTO ASIAN STUDIES GROUP
«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)
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»
NEO3, CONGRESS OF LITERATURE, Barcelona (Spain) (INVITED)
Image: Bodhisattva Kannon. The British Museum.
Membership
Japan Art History Forum
Asociación Española de Estudios de Asia Oriental
Asociación de Estudios Japoneses en España
European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology
European Association for Japanese Studies
Association for Asian Studies