Susan Lee

Title: Assistant Professor, Manager of Cyrus M. Running Gallery
Department: Art
Phone: 218-299-3310
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Degrees and Education:

  • B.A. University of California, Berkeley, Fine Art & Painting
  • M.A. Hong Ik University, Seoul, Korea, Asian Painting (Studio Program)
  • M.A. California State University, Long Beach, Art History & Asian Art
  • Ph.D. Universtiy of Michigan, Ann Arbor, History of Art & Japanese Art

Research / Teaching Interests:

-fuzokuga (conventionally translated as "genre painting")-- the genealogy of the art historical category and its deployment as the expression of the "Japanese folk"

-manipulation of class-coded signs in seventeenth and eighteenth-century aestheticized forms of play in fuzokuga and Ukiyo-e

-pung-sok-hwa (Korean "genre painting"): the geneaology of the category and the uses of the genre in modern nationalist discourse

-the uses of the figure of the "prostitute-courtesan" in the Japanese and Korean painting and print traditions

-the development of the identity of the "prostitute" as artist in the aesthetic traditions of Edo Japan and Choson Korea.

Recent Publications

  • “Meanings and Uses of ‘Play’ in the Sooji Screens,” Japanese Art Graduate Student Workshop: Princeton, 1998
  • “Official and Nationalistic Art in Asia, 1900-45,” World History Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO Inc., 2010) (forthcoming)
  • “Zen Exemplars in Brothels” (manuscript in progress)
  • “Politics of Partying: Tea, kabuki, and Mansion Screens” (manuscript in progress)
  • “Sin Yunbok as Folk Hero” (manuscript in progress)
  • “Early Geisha: Representation of Courtesans in Japanese Folding Screens” (manuscript in progress)
  • “Pictures of Ideal Lovers,” From Marginal to Mainstream: Asian Literary Voices, edited by Philip F. Williams (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2010) (forthcoming)
  • “Literati Painting Theory and Practice in East Asian Art,” Teaching Asian Art: Content, Context, Pedagogy, edited by Sheng Kuan Chung (The National Art Education Association, 2010) (forthcoming)
  • Painting Pleasure: Screen Paintings of Early Modern Japan (manuscript in progress)