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Assistant Professor
Academy of Visual Arts
Hong Kong Baptist University
E-mail: raduleca@hkbu.edu.hk
EDUCATION
2015 SOAS, University of London, PhD, History of Art and Archaeology
2011 SOAS, University of London, MA, History of Art and Archaeology
2010 Kanazawa University, BA, Japanese Literature
2005-6 Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Japanese Language and Culture Course
2003-5 University of Bucharest, BA student, Japanese Language and Literature
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2022 Sep-present Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University, Assistant Professor
2018 Jul – 2022 Aug Institute of East Asian Art History, Heidelberg University, Postdoctoral Research Associate
2018 Feb-Mar Kyoto Institute, Library and Archives, Research Fellow
2017 Nov-Dec MacLean Collection Map Library, MacLean Fellow
2017 Sep-Oct Scaliger Institute, Leiden University Libraries, Isaac Alfred Ailion Fellow for the Study of Japanese Language and Culture
2017 Feb-Jun Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University, Lecturer
2017 Mar The J B Harley Research Trust, J B Harley Research Fellow
2016-17 International Institute for Asian Studies, Affiliated Fellow
2015-16 Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, Norwich, Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow
2014-15 History of Art and Archaeology, SOAS, University of London, Senior Teaching Fellow
2013 Feb-Jun Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science & Dōshisha University
JSPS Invitation Fellow for Research in Japan (Short Term)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Early Modern Art in Japan and its Historiography, Material Culture, History of Cartography, History of the Book, Japonisme, Gender Studies, Intermediality
PUBLICATIONS
Books
2024 (under contract) Japan Mapped Within and Without: Reflections on the Sir Hugh and Lady Cortazzi Collection at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, editor. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
2023 (in press) Enduring Encounters: Maps of Japan from Leiden University Libraries, co-edited with Martijn Storms. Leiden: Brill.
Peer-reviewed Articles
2022 ‘Dynamic Scribal Culture in Late Seventeenth-century Japan: Focusing on Ihara Saikaku’s Engagement with Handscrolls’. Japan Review 37: 77-100.
2022 ‘Vengeful Promises: The Agency of Love Oaths as Materially Hybrid Texts in Late Seventeenth-Century Japan’. East Asian Publishing and Society 12: 46-72.
2021 ‘The Digital, the Local and the Mundane: Three Areas of Potential Change for Research on Asia’. Asia Pacific Perspectives 17-1: 38-51.
2020 ‘Maps of the World in Early Modern Japan’. In: David Ludden (ed.) Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History. Oxford University Press.
2019 ‘Maps as Knowledge Vehicles: Insights from the Collections of Leiden University Library’, Mapping Asia: Cartographic Encounters between East and West Conference Proceedings, Martijn Storms et al. (eds.). Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
2017 ‘Turning “Sites of Remembrance” into “Sites of Imagination”: The Case of Hideyoshi’s Great Buddha’, Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University 2: 125-35.
2014 ‘Brazilian Cannibals in 16th century Europe and 17th century Japan’, Comparative Critical Studies 11 supplement: 109–30.
Book Chapters
2023 (in press) Stripes and Feathers: Trade and the Geographical Imaginary in Late Seventeenth-century Japan. In: Christine Guth, Melanie Trede and Mio Wakita (eds.) Japanese Art – Transcultural Perspectives. Leiden: Brill.
2023 (in press) Fluttering Ambition: Heteroglossic Geographic Knowledge on a Sixteenth-Century Folding Fan. In: Michael Zimmerman et al. (eds.) Dialogical Imaginations. Zürich: Diaphanes.
2023 The Media Trajectory of Kano Naganobu’s ‘Merrymaking under Cherry and Aronia Blossoms’. In: Between Manuscript and Print: Transitions, Simultaneities, and the Question of Shifting Meanings, Berlin: de Gruyter.
2022 1815 – Imaginary Travel from Edo to Nagasaki. Glimpses of an Isolated Archipelago. In: Martijn Storms (ed.) Maps that Made History. Tielt: Lannoo, 224-25.
2021 Edo and Tokyo in Maps. In: Lena Fritsch and Clare Pollard (eds.) Tokyo: Art & Photography. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 44-51.
2020 Women as Active Agents of Japonisme in the Dual Monarchy. In: Mirjam Dénes, Györgyi Fajcsák, Piotr Spławski and Toshio Watanabe (eds.) Japonisme in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Budapest: Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts, 251-60.
2020 The Tensions of Heterochronicity on Cartographies of Imperial Motion in Japan. In: Bram Vannieuwenhuyze and Zef Segal (eds.) From News Maps to Motion Maps. Mapping Stories and Movement through the Times. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
2017 Cartography and the ‘Age of Discovery’. In: Peter Vujakovic and Alex Kent (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Mapping and Cartography. London: Routledge, 134-44.
2017 Cartographies of Alterity: Shapeshifting Women and Periaquatic Spaces in Seventeenth-century Japan. In: Lara Blanchard and Kristen Chiem (eds.) Gender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of East Asia, 16th–20th Centuries. Leiden: Brill, 21-52.
Book Reviews
2022 Printing Landmarks: Popular Geography and Meisho Zue in Late Tokugawa Japan, by Robert Goree. Journal of Japanese Studies 48-1: 258-63.
2019 Foujita: œuvres d’une vie (1886-1968), edited by Hayashi Yōko and Sophie Krebs. Journal of Japonisme 5-1: 120-27.
2016 Partners in Print: Artistic Collaboration and the Ukiyo-e Market, by Julie Nelson Davis. Pacific Affairs 89-3: 669-71.
Other Publications
2023 ‘Divergent Meanings of Place in Mapping Japan: La Pérouse’s Tangential Encounter’. Map Chats, Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library.
2022 De la “Shōgun” citire: Istoria Japoniei si Fanteziile Occidentului. București: Eikon. Romanian translation, co-edited with Alexandra Mustățea, of Henry Smith (ed.) Learning from Shōgun: Japanese History and Western Fantasy. Santa Barbara: University of California Santa Barbara, 1980. Additional introduction, co-written with Alexandra Mustățea, titled ‘De la „Shōgun” citire, atunci şi acum – Cuvânt introductiv la ediția în limba română –‘.
2019 Celebrating Hybridity with Critical Spirit, Toshiba International Foundation 30th Anniversary Essay Contest.
2019 The Significance of Maps on Ceramics in Japan. Kyōtogaku Rekisaikan kiyō 2: 61-75.
2018 Competing Views of the World in Early Modern Japan. In: Tristan R. Grunow and Naoko Kato (eds.) Digital Meijis: Revisualizing Modern Japanese History at 150. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Library.
2017 ‘A User-centred Reinterpretation of the Siebold Incident’. IIAS Newsletter 77: 6.
2015 ‘The Allure of Absence: The Aesthetics of the Female Body in Contemporary Art and Seventeenth Century Japan’. Kapsula Magazine 2- 3 Longing 2/3: 25-31.
2013 ‘Akogare no hate e – kinsei zenki ni okeru Yōkihi ni kanren suru kūkan hyōshō no hensen ni tsuite’ [Abodes of Longing – Places Associated with Yang Guifei in Seventeenth-century Japan]. Kamizono 9: 58-64.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Undergraduate
2023-24 Arts and Its Histories I, II, Hong Kong Baptist University
2023 Eurasian Encounters in Art, Hong Kong Baptist University
2022-23 Art History and Theory section, Studio: Drawing and Painting, Studio: Graphic Design, Studio: Glass, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University
2021 History of Art and Material Culture section, East Asia in World History I, Heidelberg University (online)
2020 Material Cultures of Entertainment Media in Seventeenth-century Japan, Heidelberg University (Instructor of Record, online)
2020 ‘Do Images Need a Passport? Transcultural Iconographies of Brazil and Japan’, ‘Art, Cartography and Depictions of Space in Japan’, Introduction to Image Analysis, Heidelberg University
2019 ‘Images of Brazilian Cannibals: An Example of Transcultural Iconographic Transfer’, ‘The Aesthetics of the Absent Female Body: Gender, Ontology and Iconography in Crosscultural Comparison’, Introduction to Image Analysis, Heidelberg University
2017 Arts and Material Culture of Japan, Leiden University (Instructor of Record)
2014-15 Japanese Art, SOAS, University of London (Instructor of Record)
2012, -14, -15 Introduction to the Arts of East Asia, SOAS, University of London (Tutor)
Postgraduate
2022 Gender Issues in Japanese Art and Art Historiography, Heidelberg University (Instructor of Record)
2021 Heidelberg-Getty Dissertation Workshop, Heidelberg University (Faculty Mentor, online)
2019 ‘At the Threshold of the Tokugawa Era: Engagements with the Foreign’, Early Modern Japanese Arts and the City of Edo, Heidelberg University
2019 ‘Ihara Saikaku and Early Floating World Culture’, Ukiyo-e, “Pictures of the Floating World”, Heidelberg University
2018 ‘Artistry of Japanese Maps’, ‘Obaku Zen and Zenga’, Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art, SOAS, University of London
2016 ‘Arts of Zen’, ‘Nikkō Shrine and Nijō Castle’, ‘Maruyama Ōkyo and Itō Jakuchū’, ‘Dutch Studies’, Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art, SOAS, University of London
2016 ‘Bunjinga and Shaseiga’, Arts of East Asia, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
2015 ‘Maruyama-Shijo Painting’, ‘Eccentrics’, MA in East Asian Art, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London
2015 Popular Practice in Edo Period Arts, SOAS, University of London (Instructor of Record)
2014 Shogunal Iconography in the Edo Period, SOAS, University of London (Instructor of Record)
EVENTS ORGANIZED
2023 Boundary Flights: Transcultural Birds in Asia international conference (hybrid) organizer, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University
2022 29th International Conference on the History of Cartography, Bucharest, Romania
2022 ‘New Approaches to the Study of Early Modern Artistic Production in Japan, Focusing on Ihara Saikaku’ panel, Association of Asian Studies Conference (online)
2022 Between Manuscript and Print: Transitions, Simultaneities and the Question of Shifting Meanings conference, Heidelberg University (online)
2021 ‘Fields of Tension between Manuscript and Print in Early Modern East Asia’ panel, European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology (online)
2021 In-between Manuscript and Print: Illustrated Books and Scrolls from Early Modern Japan symposium, Heidelberg University (online)
2019 Manuscript in Print: The Written and the Painted in Early Modern Japanese Publishing Culture workshop, Heidelberg University
2017 Mapping Japan exhibition co-curator, SieboldHuis, Leiden
2017 ‘The Mutual Emplacement of Europe and Asia on Cartographic Folding Screens in Japan during the Early Modern Period’ panel, European Association of Japanese Studies conference, Lisbon
2016 Isles of Gold Revisited: New Approaches to the Study of Early Modern Maps symposium, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, Norwich
2015 Interdisciplinary Symposium: Shifting Perspectives on Media and Materials in Early Modern Japan, SOAS, University of London
2015 Japan: Pre-Modern, Modern, Contemporary – A Return Trip from the East to the West conference, Dimitrie Cantemir University, Bucharest
RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS
Association for Asian Studies (AAS)
Japan Art History Forum (JAHF)
European Association of Japanese Studies (EAJS)
European Association of Japanese Resource Specialists (EAJRS)
European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology (EAAA)
LANGUAGES
Romanian: native
English: excellent – Cambridge CPE 2003, TOEFL iBT 2009 score 105
Japanese: excellent – Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT), Level 1, 2008
French: fluent
German: basic, able to read with dictionary
INTERESTS
Aikidō (shodan), scuba diving (PADI Rescue Diver, including First Aid course).
INVITED TALKS
2022 Ways Through: Examples of Research Tactics amid Restrictions, Satsuma-Konishi Lecture Series, Leuven University (online)
2021 ‘Bamboo Bending: Adapting Research on Asia to a Fluid Environment’, Heidelberg-Getty Dissertation Workshop Faculty Lectures Series, Heidelberg University (online)
2021 ‘Bathymetric Maps of Tokyo Bay: A Transnational History’, Maps and Society Lecture Series, The Warburg Institute, London (online)
2019 ‘National Politics and the Subsurface Imaginary in Nineteenth-century Mappings of Tokyo Bay’, Forschungszentrum Gotha der Universität Erfurt, Gotha
2018 ‘Jūnanaseiki kōhan ni okeru chizu to ukiyoe ni yoru kūkan no gorakuka’ [‘Accessing Spaces of Pleasure Through Maps and Ukiyo-e Images in Late Seventeenth-century Japan’], 23rd International Ukiyo-e Society Conference, Kokugakuin University, Tokyo
2018 ‘Sumidagawa wo sakanoboru fukujin no keifu – Ōta Nanpo – Chōbunsai Eishi ga “Kakurezato no ki” made’ [‘The Genealogy of Gods of Good Fortune Along the Sumida River – On the “Record of the Hidden Village” written by Ōta Nanpo and illustrated by Chōbunsai Eishi’], Hosei University Research Center for Edo-Tokyo Studies, Tokyo
2018 ‘Fleshing Out Knowledge of the World in Early Modern Japan’, Curious and Scientific Things – Seeing and Knowing in Early Modern East Asia (1700-1900), Leiden University
2018 ‘The Artistry of Japanese Maps’, Circle of Japanese Art London, Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London
2018 ‘The Challenge of Historical Maps’, Portal Sites of Japanese Historical Maps, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto
2018 ‘Pointing at the Globe: Materializing the Spatial Imaginary of the Earth in Early Meiji Period Japan’, Built Japan: Environment, City and Empire, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
2017 ‘Imaginary Islands on East Asian Cartographic Sources from 15th to 17th Centuries’, Seafaring, Trade, and Knowledge Transfer: Maritime Politics and Commerce in Early Middle Period to Early Modern China and Beyond, Ghent University
2016 ‘The Role of Mapping in the Emergence of Japan as a Sea Power in the Late-nineteenth-century’, Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies, University of Oxford
2016 ‘“Myriad Countries”: The Outside World on Historical Maps of Japan’, Third Thursday Lecture, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, Norwich
2016 ‘“People of the World” on Seventeenth-century Japanese Maps and Their Impact on Vernacular Culture’, Deciphering Sino-Korean Atlases and Japanese Maps – Current Research Problems in East Asian Cartography Studies, EHESS, Paris
2016 ‘Japan’s Shifting Position on Maps of the World in the Late Edo Period’, Japan Research Centre Seminar Programme, SOAS, University of London
2012 ‘The Backward Glance – Constructing Feminine Beauty with Chinese Tropes in 17th Century Japan’, Global/Local Material Cultures Study Day, Royal College of Art, London
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2023 ‘The Blending of Art and Cartography in Japanese Imaginaries of Asia’, The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA), Bodleian Libraries, Oxford
2023 ‘Copying as Dialogical Knowledge-Making: Japanese Versions of Matteo Ricci’s 1602 World Map Kunyu Wanguo Quantu’, International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine Conference, Frankfurt
2023 ‘Representations of Deshima as Sources of Early Modern Spatial Epistemology’, European Association of Japanese Studies Conference, Gent
2023 ‘Landmarks, Scale and Viewpoint: Parameters of Spatial Representations of Hong Kong in Cartographic and Artistic Sources’, International Society for the History of the Map Conference, Berlin
2022 ‘The Auspicious and Sacred Dimensions of Saikaku’s Scribal Persona’, Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawai’i (online)
2021 ‘Media Histories of the Courtesan Yoshino in Early Modern Japan and China’, European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology Online Panel 8
2021 ‘The Animation Effect of the Hanging Scroll Format in Late-Seventeenth-Century Urban Visual Culture in Japan’, Forum Ostasiatische Kunstgeschichte (online)
2021 ‘Saikaku to emaki – Kinsei shahon bunka no ichirei’ [‘Saikaku and Handscrolls: An Example of Early Modern Manuscript Culture in Japan’], 44th International Conference on Japanese Literature, National Institute of Japanese Literature, Tokyo (online)
2021 ‘Vernacular Remediations of the Terrestrial Globe in Early Modern Japan’, Remediated Maps: Transmedial Approaches to Cartographic Imagination, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome (online)
2021 ‘Remediation and Material Culture in an Art-themed Stamp from 1960s Japan’, Association of Asian Studies 2021 Virtual Annual Conference, online
2021 ‘Negotiations of Print and Manuscript in Ihara Saikaku’s Editorial Activity’, In-between Manuscript and Print: Illustrated Books and Scrolls from Early Modern Japan, Heidelberg University, online
2020 ‘Cannibals, Japan, and the Geographic Periphery of Early Modern European Cognition’, Engaging Margins: Framing Imagery as Embodiment of Cognitive Processes, Université Catholique de Louvain
2019 ‘The Agency of Written Oaths in Ihara Saikaku’s Printed Works’, Manuscript in Print: The Written and the Painted in Early Modern Japanese Publishing Culture, Heidelberg University
2019 ‘The Spatial Agency of Portraits of Women in Late-Seventeenth Century Japan’, Negotiating Gender and/through Visual Images: Female Bodies in Japan from the Early Modern to Present panel, International Convention of Asia Scholars, Leiden
2017 ‘Staggered Hangings: The Reception of the Term “kakemono” in the West’, European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology Conference, University of Zürich
2017 ‘Cannibals on European and Japanese Maps of South America: An Intriguing Case of Iconographic Dissemination’, International Conference on the History of Cartography, Belo Horizonte
2017 ‘Complex Interfaces: The Meaning of Scenes of Cannibalism on Cartographic Folding Screens’, European Association of Japanese Studies Conference, Lisbon
2016 ‘The Trans-Cultural Dimension of Hideyoshi’s “Great Buddha” During the Early Modern Period’, Joint East Asian Studies Conference, SOAS, University of London
2016 ‘Spatial Immersion through Iconographic Cues in Seventeenth-century Japanese Images’, The Eye’s Mind – Visual Imagination, Neuroscience and the Humanities conference, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich
2016 ‘Heteroglossic Geographic Knowledge and Self-Identity in Early Modern Japan’, Dialogical Imaginations: Debating Aisthesis as Social Perception, Biopolitics, and New Ideas of Humanism conference, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Eichstätt
2015 ‘The Refraction of Self-Knowledge in Early Modern Maps’, Know Thyself – A Conference on Early Modern Images, History of Art Department, University College London
2015 ‘Island of Girls – Female-Only Utopias in Japanese Culture’, Art – Research – Gender Lecture Series, Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien
2014 ‘The Poet and Margareta: the Refraction of the Feminine Image of Japan within Romanian Culture’, Japan: Premodern, Modern and Contemporary. A Return Trip from the East to the West, Dimitrie Cantemir University, Bucharest
2014 ‘Looking Back at Beauty’, European Association of Japanese Studies Conference, Ljubljana
2013 ‘Urban Paradise: Prostitution Quarters as Key Factors in the Urban Development of 17th century Japan’, IIAS, National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden
2012 ‘The Backward Glance: Beautiful Women and Liminal Spaces in Seventeenth-century Japan’, Myths and Orthodoxies in East Asian Art and Art History, Tang Center, Princeton University, Princeton MA
2011 ‘The Framing of Nostalgia: Porcelain Dishes Featuring Maps of Japan in the Late Edo Period’, Japan: Premodern, Modern and Contemporary. A Return Trip from the East to the West conference, Dimitrie Cantemir University, Bucharest