East Asian Languages and Cultures

Email:

senelson@indiana.edu

Education

• PhD, Harvard University, 1978

Research Interests

• Chinese painting (especially the Song and Yuan periods) and literary culture
• Text illustration and the interactions of word and image
• Art theory and criticism
• Issues of reception

Awards and Distinctions

• Fellow, Zhejiang University, 2000
• Teaching Excellence Recognition Awards, 1997, 1999
• ACLS Fellowship, Taiwan, 1986
• Mellon Fellowship, Japan, 1979-80

Publication Highlights

• "Picturing Listening: The Sight of Sound in Chinese Painting." Archives of Asian Art 51 (1998-99)
• "Tao Yuanming's Sashes; or, the Gendering of Imoortallity." Arts Orientalis 29 (1999)
• "Catching Sight of South Mountain: Tao Yuanming, Mount Lu, and the Iconographies of Escape." Archives of Asian Art 52 (2000-2001)
• "Revisiting the Eastern Fence: Tao Qian's Chrysanthemums." Art Bulletin 83, 3 (September, 2001)