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Melissa McCormick

Melissa McCormick, Prof. Dr.

Melissa McCormick, currently Professor of Japanese Art and Culture at the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, was previously a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.) and served as Atsumi Assistant Professor of Japanese Art at Columbia University (2000-05) before moving to Harvard in 2005. As an art historian with an interdisciplinary approach, Prof. McCormick investigates the relationship of pictorial form to social history and contexts of artistic production, focusing in particular on the interrelationship of text and image, on which she has already published extensively. Prof. McCormick’s ongoing interest in The Tale of Genji has led to publications on the culture of the tale in medieval Japan, warrior patronage, female readership, and the Genji as lived experience, and was guest curator to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition The Tale of Genji: A Japanese Classic Illuminated.

HS 2018:
Seminar Gender and Japanese Art
Public lecture: Illuminating Genji: Reading the World's First Novel in Text and Image