I nurture critical thinking skills by using art history’s potential to reveal thematic connections between apparently unrelated fields of knowledge. I encourage students’ curiosity and ingenuity by discussing past material cultures alongside present-day artefacts and practices.
Undergraduate
2021 History of Art and Material Culture section, East Asia in World History I, Heidelberg University (online) see review slides below
2020 Material Cultures of Entertainment Media in Seventeenth-century Japan, Heidelberg University (Instructor of Record, online) I edited students’ favourite assignments into an Objectzine
2020 ‘Do Images Need a Passport? Transcultural Iconographies of Brazil and Japan’, ‘Art, Cartography and Depictions of Space in Japan’, Einführung in die Bildanalyse, 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’, Einführung in die Bildanalyse, 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) – students edited their assignments into a Coursezine
2012, -14, -15 Introduction to the Arts of East Asia, SOAS, University of London
Postgraduate
2021-22 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 (Rangaku)’, 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 the Edo Period Arts, SOAS, University of London (Instructor of Record)
2014 Shogunal Iconography in the Edo Period, SOAS, University of London (Instructor of Record)
2014 ‘Nara Ehon Illustrated Books – Introduction to a Genre’, Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art, SOAS, University of London – slides and handout