New Faculty: Lillian Tseng

The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University is pleased to announce the appointment of Lillian Tseng as Associate Professor of East Asian Art and Archaeology.

Prior to joining ISAW in 2010, she served as Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art at Yale University. She received her B.A. and M.A. in History from National Taiwan University (1988, 1992), and her Ph.D. in History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University (2001). She has been awarded post-doctoral fellowships from the Getty Foundation, Yale University, and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange.

Professor Tseng is interested in exploring the interface of art history and cultural history. She is the author of Picturing Heaven in Early China (Harvard University Press, 2011). She has also published a number of articles concerned with diverse cultural issues in Chinese art, such as history and memory, visual replication and political persuasion, pictorial representation and historical writing, and the interchangeability of the self and the other. She is currently at work on two book projects: one investigates the reception of antiquity and its impact on visual production in eighteenth-century China, while the other examines frontiers and visual imaginations in Han China. She is also editing a scholarly volume entitled Representing Things: Visuality and Materiality in East Asia.

Professor Tseng will begin teaching seminars at ISAW in the fall. Please join us in welcoming her to our community

Roger Bagnall, Director