JEEHEE HONG Department of Art and Music Histories

JEEHEE HONG Department of Art and Music Histories 308 Bowne Hall Syracuse University Syracuse, NY 13244 [email protected] Phone: 201.424.1788 PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Music Histories, Syracuse University, 2010-­‐ present Visiting Scholar, School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University, 2013-­‐2014 Director, Chinese Studies Program, Syracuse University, 2012-­‐2013 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Dartmouth College, 2008-­‐2010 EDUCATION Ph.D. Art History, University of Chicago, August 2008 M.A. Art History, University of Chicago, June 2002 M.A. Masters of Arts in Humanities, University of Chicago, June 2001 M.A. History, Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea), February 1999 B.A. History, Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea), February 1996 SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS ACLS American Research in the Humanities in China Fellowship, 2013-­‐2014 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Dartmouth College, 2008-­‐2010 Franke Institute for Humanities Fellowship, The University of Chicago, 2007-­‐2008 Center for East Asian Studies Dissertation Writing Fellowship, The University of Chicago, 2006-­‐2007 Rockefeller Foundation Asian Cultural Council Dissertation Research Grant to China, 2005-­‐2006 Peking University Harvard-­‐Yenching Institute Fellowship for Advanced Research in Chinese Studies, 2005-­‐2006 Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Achievement Fellowship, 2002-­‐2004 Century Fellowship, The University of Chicago, 2001-­‐2004 PUBLICATIONS AND COMPLETED WORKS (* indicates refereed publication) Book Theater of the Dead: A Social Turn in Chinese Funerary Art, 1000-­‐1400 (Forthcoming, University of Hawai‘i Press)* 1
Articles “Mechanism of Life for the Netherworld: Transformations of Mingqi in Middle-­‐ Period China,” Journal of Chinese Religions, vol. 43, no. 2 (2015, forthcoming).* “Carving Tears: The Affect of Mourning Images in Middle-­‐Period China,” Diogenes, (Special issue, Emotional and Ethical Life: Asian Perspectives) (forthcoming)* “Changing Roles of the Tomb Portrait: Burial Practices and Ancestral Worship of Non-­‐ Literati Elite in North China (1000-­‐1400),” Journal of Song-­‐Yuan Studies, vol. 44 (2015, forthcoming).* “ 'Hengzai' zhong de zangyi: Song Yuan shiqi zhongyuan muzang de yili shijian” ‘恒在’ 中的葬仪: 宋元时期中原墓葬的仪礼时间 (In Chinese) (Funeral in the Permanent Present: Ritual Time in Middle-­‐Period Tombs of North China) In Wu Hung, Zhu Qingsheng, and Zheng Yan eds., Gudai muzang meishu yanjiu 古代 墓葬美术研究 (Studies on tomb art in traditional China), vol. 3 (Changsha: Hunan meishu chubanshe, 2015, forthcoming) “Unwritten Life (and Death) of a “Pharmacist” in Song China: Decoding Hancheng Tomb Murals,” Cahiers d'Extrême-­‐Asie, vol. 24 (2015, forthcoming). Co-­‐authored with TJ Hinrichs.* “Exorcism from the Streets to the Tomb: An Image of the Judge and Minions in the Xuanhua Liao Tomb No. 7,” Archives of Asian Art, vol. 63, no. 1 (2013)* Review of ‘Drama Sustains the Spirit’: Art, Ritual and Theatre in Jin and Yuan Period Pingyang by Zhang Jeremy Fan, Dissertation Review (2012): http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1678 “Virtual Theater of the Dead: Actor Figurines and Their Stage in Houma Tomb No.1, Shanxi Province,” Artibus Asiae, vol. 71, no. 1, 2011 [Published 2012]* “Theatricalizing Death and Society in The Skeletons’ Illusory Performance by Li Song,” The Art Bulletin, vol. 93, no. 1 (March 2011)* “Theatricalizing Death in Performance Images of Mid-­‐imperial China.” Ph.D. dissertation, The University of Chicago, August, 2008. “Material/Materiality.” In Theories of Media Keywords Glossary, ed. The Chicago School of Media Theory (2003): http://csmt.uchicago.edu/glossary2004/material.htm “Path to the Other World: Funerary Narrative Rendered in Tokungri Tomb Murals.” M.A. thesis, University of Chicago, 2002. “So Sik ui daesang saegye insik gua whaewharon” 소식의 대상세계인식과 회화론 (In Korean). (Consolidating Cultural Identity of Shi-­‐da-­‐fu in Painting Theories of Su Shi) In Hangnim, vol. 20 (1999), 107-­‐167 (Seoul, Korea).* WORKS IN PROGRESS Navigating Between Heart and Eyes: The Shape of Emotions in Chinese Art (book manuscript in progress) Digging to China in the Song-­‐Yuan Era (collaborator) 2
: A five-­‐year project to reformulate the cultural and social history of China during the Song-­‐Yuan period (960-­‐1368) by systematically documenting a diverse and endangered body of archaeological evidence; sponsored by Zhejiang University Museum of Art and Archaeology. [currently seeking for further support from other resources] CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA, WORKSHOPS, AND INVITED TALKS Emotional and Ethical Life: Asian Perspective Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, December 15-­‐16, 2014 [invited] “Laughing and Mourning by Chisel and Brush: Imaging Emotions in Traditional China” Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium Cornell University, October 31, 2014 [invited] “Modes of Ekphasis in Middle-­‐period China” International Interdisciplinary Conference on Middle Period China, 800-­‐1400 Harvard University, June 5-­‐7, 2014 “Transformations of Mingqi in Middle-­‐Period China” Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing, May 9, 2014) [Invited] “中古时期的明器之变” (Transformations of Mingqi in Middle-­‐Period China) Guangzhou Academy of Art (Guangzhou, April 2-­‐3, 2014) [Invited] “死亡与社会的剧场化: 宋代李嵩<骷髅幻戏图>新解” (Theatricalizing Death and Society in The Skeletons’ Illusory Performance by Li Song) “中古中国墓室壁画中的仪礼时间” (Ritual Time in Middle-­‐Period Tombs) Hebei University of Science and Technology, School of Fine Arts (Shijiazhuang, April 21, 2014) [invited] “中古中国墓室壁画中的仪礼时间” (Ritual Time in Middle-­‐Period Tombs) The Second Templeton Conference: Science and Religion in East Asia Seoul National University (Seoul, December 12-­‐14, 2013) [Invited. Joint presentation with T.J. Hinrichs] "New Perspectives on Technical Knowledge, Funerary Rites, and Social Status in the Northern Song: Evidence from a Recently Discovered Tomb” Third International Conference on Ancient Tomb Art (Beijing, August 16-­‐18, 2013) Peking University, Central Academy of Art, University of Chicago Beijing Center [Invited] " '恒在'中的葬仪:宋元时期中原墓葬的仪礼时间" (Funeral in the Permanent Present: Ritual Time in Middle-­‐Period Tombs of North China) Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting (San Diego, March 21-­‐24, 2013) “One ‘Portrait,’ Many Ancestors: A Pattern of Ancestral Worship in Thirteenth-­‐ 3
century Pingyang ” Art and Death (Part I of three workshops) The Courtauld Institute of Art (London, November 1, 2012) "Commemorating the Future Dead: Antemortem Images of Rituals in Tombs of Middle-­‐period China" Objects of Affection: Towards a Materiology of Emotions (Princeton University, May 4-­‐6, 2012) “Grieving Through Stone and Clay: Mourning Images of Middle-­‐Period China” College Art Association Annual Conference (Los Angeles, February 13-­‐16, 2012) “Exorcism by Brush: Ritualizing Tomb Space in Middle-­‐Period China” China Project Workshop Institute for Fine Arts, New York University [Invited] (New York, October 14, 2011) “Shifting Margins of the Sacred Realm in Middle-­‐Period China.” The Cultural History of Emotions in Pre-­‐modernity II: Emotions East and West (Istanbul, September 29-­‐October 1, 2011) “Mourning in Person: Expressions of Grief in Middle-­‐period Chinese Funerary Art” Intersections: Architecture and Poetry The Courtauld Institute of Art (London, June 3-­‐4, 2011) “Poetics of Surface in Chinese Ritual Architecture” Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting (Honolulu, March 31-­‐April 3, 2011) “Staging Death: Actors and Their Theater Carved on a Thirteenth-­‐century Sarcophagus in Ruicheng, Shanxi” Tenth–century China and Beyond: Art and Visual Culture in a Multi-­‐centered Age The Center for the Art of East Asia, The University of Chicago [Invited] (Chicago, May 28-­‐29, 2010) “Refashioning the Faces of the Earth: Transformation of a Shensha Figurine in Tenth-­‐century Mortuary Space” COURSES Survey of Asian Art Arts of China Arts of Korea Media in the Art of East Asia Spectacles in Chinese Visual Culture Emotions in Chinese Art TEACHING INTERESTS Primary: Middle-­‐period Chinese art (10th-­‐14th centuries) 4
Religious Art in East Asia (China, Korea, Japan) Pictorial Art in East Asia Artistic Mediums in East Asia Secondary: Art-­‐historical Methodologies Historiography of Chinese art RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Collaborator, Digging to China in the Song-­‐Yuan Era : A five-­‐year project to reformulate the cultural and social history of China during the Song-­‐Yuan period (960-­‐1368) by systematically documenting a diverse and endangered body of archaeological evidence, sponsored by Zhejiang University Museum of Art and Archaeology. [in progress] Chair, New Readings of Song-­‐Yuan Paintings: The Social Dimension (Association of Asian Art Annual Meeting), March 26-­‐29, 2015 Chair and Panel Organizer, Localizing Ritual: The Roles of Local Elites in Northern China, 1000-­‐1400 (Association of Asian Art Annual Meeting), March 22, 2013 Guest lecturer for the seminar Art and Ritual in East Asia, Department of the History of Art, Yale University, March 8, 2013 Cataloguing East Asian collection in SUArt Galleries, Syracuse University, February 2012 Faculty Colloquium, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, November 7, 2008 : Prepared a colloquium with Professor Wu Hung (visiting scholar from the University of Chicago) for faculty members at the college to facilitate active use of the museum’s collection in their teaching. Andrew W. Mellon Residency in the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, September 8-­‐12, 2008 : Helped facilitate the integration of the museum’s collections into the college curriculum by studying and recataloguing the Chinese objects and paintings stored at the museum. Co-­‐organizer, The University of Chicago Graduate Student Symposium: “New Approaches in East Asian Art History,” May 5-­‐6, 2006 Staff Editor of Chicago Art Journal, Department of Art History, The University of Chicago, 2003-­‐2004 SERVICES Promotion and Tenure Committee, Syracuse University, 2014-­‐2015 Search Committee, Chinese language and literature, Syracuse University, 2012-­‐2013 Director, Chinese Studies Program, Syracuse University, 2012-­‐2013 Art History Graduate Student Admission Committee, Syracuse University, 2010-­‐2012 Lower-­‐division Undergraduate Advising for College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University, 2011-­‐2013; 2014-­‐2015 Humanities Council Faculty Advisory Board, Syracuse University, 2010-­‐2012 5
Honors Capstone Prize Committee for Humanities, Syracuse University, May 2013 Comfort Society Advisor, Syracuse University, 2012-­‐2013 First Year Forum Leader, Syracuse University, 2011-­‐2012 Art History Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Syracuse University, 2010-­‐2013; 2014-­‐2015 LANGUAGES Classical Chinese Modern Chinese Japanese Korean French PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Association of Asian Studies College Art Association Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasties Studies Daoist Studies REFERENCES Available upon request 6