Julie Nelson Davis
Department of the History of Art
Jaffe Building, 3405 Woodland Walk
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6208
tel.:
215-898-3247
fax:
215-573-2210
email: [email protected]
updated: October 13, 2016
*Short cv: more information available upon request
Academic Positions
Professor, Department of the History of Art (Modern East Asian), University of Pennsylvania. Assistant Professor,
2002-2008; Associate Professor, 2008-2016; Professor, 2016-present.
Professor, Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies; Autumn 2014 (visiting appointment)
Assistant Professor of Art and East Asian Studies, Oberlin College: 1999-2002
Lecturer in Japanese Art History, Division of Art History, School of Art, University of Washington, 1997-1999
Education
Ph.D., Art History, University of Washington, 1997
Gakushūin University (Peers’ School), Tokyo, Japan, 1992-1994
M.A. candidate, Art and Aesthetics, Department of Philosophy, 1993-94
Research Student, 1992-93
B.A., Art, with a concentration in Art History, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, 1985
Academic and Museum Affiliations
Senior Research Fellow, Freer|Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution, 2016-2017
Senior Consulting Curator, Pulverer Collection of Japanese Illustrated Books, Freer|Sackler Galleries,
Smithsonian Institution, 2014-2016
Digital Humanities Center for Japanese Arts and Cultures, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, 2010Consulting Scholar, Asia Section, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2008Gakushūin University (Peers’ School), Tokyo, Japan. In residence affiliation during the following periods:
Summer, 2000; June, 2004; June-July, 2005; November, 2005 (two weeks); June-July, 2007;
November, 2007 (one week); June, 2010
Publications
Books
Ukiyo-e in Context – under contract
Partners in Print: Publishers, Artists, the Market and the Floating World (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press),
2015
Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty (London: Reaktion Books; Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press), 2007
Exhibition Catalogues
A Sense of Place: Modern Japanese Prints (Philadelphia: Arthur Ross Gallery), 2015
Co-authored with Frank L. Chance, Dramatic Impressions: Japanese Theatre Prints from the Gilbert Luber
Collection (Philadelphia: Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, distributed by the University
of Pennsylvania Press), 2007.
Selected Articles and Essays
“A Letter from Munakata,” Impressions, forthcoming 2017.
“Printing the Art of Painting: Reflections on a Surimono to Honor Sekien,” for The Artist in Edo, edited by Yukio
Lippit (Washington: National Gallery of Art); in production (2017).
“The Handwritten and the Printed: Issues of Format and Medium in Japanese Premodern Books,” for the new
journal for the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscripts Studies, published by University of Pennsylvania Press.
Co-authored with Linda H. Chance. Vol 1:1 (2016).
“Tracing Collaboration in the Floating World: An Introduction to Selected Ukiyo-e from the Philadelphia
Museum of Art” (Osaka: Abeno Harukas Museum, 2015), in English and Japanese. Edited by Asano
Shūgō.
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*『浮世絵の共同作業と師弟 － 鳥山石燕と喜多川歌麿』 “The Master-Student Relationship and
Collaborative Process in Ukiyo-e: Toriyama Sekien and Kitagawa Utamaro,” translated by Oikawa
Shigeru, Ukiyo-e Geijutsu (浮世絵芸術 Ukiyo-e Arts, published by the International Ukiyo-e Society), no.
168; in publication (2014).
“Connoisseurship and Yoshiwara Illusions: Reconsidering The Mirror of the Beauties of the ‘Azure Towers,’
Compared” for Kobayashi Tadashi festschrift (Tokyo: Yagi Shoten, 2012), 20-26.
「『青楼美人合姿鏡』における浮世絵の出版及び吉原のネットワ-ク」 (“Ukiyo-e Publishing and Yoshiwara Networks in the
Seirō bijin awase sugata kagami”), translated by Suzuki Jun, in Suzuki Jun and Asano Shūgō, eds. 江戸
の絵本 ー 画像とテキストの綾なせる世界 (Edo Illustrated books: A World Enriched through
Text and Image) (Tokyo: Yagi shoten, 2010), 199-210; for the National Institute of Japanese Literature.
“Peindre les couleurs du Monde flottant: Réflexions sur le peintre de l’ukiyo-e et son art” (“Painting the colors
of the Floating World: Reflections on the Ukiyo-e painter and his art”), translated by Elisabeth Luc, in
Michel Maucuer, ed., Splendeurs des courtisanes – Japon, peintures Ukiyo-e du musée Idemitsu (Paris:
Cernuschi Museum, 2008), 40-48.
“Tsutaya Jūzaburō, Master Publisher,” in Julia Meech and Jane Oliver, eds., Designed for Pleasure: The World
of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680 – 1860 (New York: Asia Society and Japanese Art Society
of America; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008), 115-141.
“The Trouble with Hideyoshi: Censoring Ukiyo-e and the Ehon Taikōki Incident of 1804,” Japan Forum, 19 (3)
2007, 281-315.
“ Teisai Hokuba hitsu ‘Mitate komatsu-hikizu’,” (蹄斎北馬筆「見立小松引図」“Teisai Hokuba’s ‘Parody of the
New Year’s Pine Tree Festival’ ”), translated by Yamamoto Yukari, Kōkka (國華), no. 1340 (2007), 3035.
*“Utamaro to ‘Ehon Taikōki’” (歌麿と「絵本太閤記」) (“Utamaro and the Ehon Taikōki”) Ukiyo-e Geijutsu (浮世
絵芸術 Ukiyo-e Arts, written in Japanese, published by the International Ukiyo-e Society, 2006), no. 152,
88-93.
*“Kitagawa Utamaro and his Contemporaries, 1780-1804” in Newland, Amy, ed., The Hotei Encyclopedia of
Japanese Woodblock Prints (Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2005), 135-166; invited and refereed.
“Artistic Identity and Ukiyo-e Prints: The Representation of Kitagawa Utamaro to the Edo Public” in Takeuchi,
Melinda, ed., The Artist as Professional in Japan (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004), 113-151.
“Diversions in the Floating World: Selected Ukiyo-e Prints from the Bergen Museum of Art” in Ukiyo-e: Bilder
fra den Flytende Verden (Pictures from the Floating World), edited by Knut Ormhaug and Frode Sandvik,
Bergen Kunstmuseum, 2004, 129-144. Also translated into Norwegian, 9-25; invited submission.
“A Gift of Distinction: New Year’s Pine Tree Festival by Teisai Hokuba,” The Bulletin of the Allen Memorial Art
Museum (Oberlin College, March 2003), 53-59.
Editorial Activities
Editorial Board, Japanese Visual Culture series, Brill & Hotei Publishing, 2008Editorial Board, caa.reviews, 2007-2011; Field Editor for Japanese Art History, caa.reviews,
(http://www.caareviews.org), 2001-2010
Honors
Trustees' Council of Penn Women's 25th Anniversary Award for Excellence in Advising, 2012
Available upon request: details of catalogue and encyclopedia entries, translations, and book reviews; conferences
and workshops organized, presentation on conference panels and invited presentations; dissertations, master’s and
undergraduate theses advised; tenure and manuscript reviews; teaching program; among others.