Contact
Email: yun.gao@uzh.ch
Main Research Interests
Comparative East Asian art; premodern Japanese art and material culture; representations of sericulture and textile production; gender and women's labor; the transition from early modern to modern Japan.
Dissertation (PhD, ongoing)
Working title: Transforming Bodies, Weaving Modernity: A Visual History of Women in Japanese Sericulture, 1700-1900
Presentations
- Beyond the Beautiful: Gender, Labor, and Idealization in Utamaro's Sericulture Series. 14th Forum East Asian Art History in German-speaking Countries, University of Zurich, June 5-6, 2026.
Memberships
- Japan Art History Forum (JAHF)
- European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS)