RIJS People
Faculty
Melissa McCormick
mccorm@fas.harvard.edu
John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities
Dept of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~ealc
Professor Melissa McCormick received her Ph.D. in Japanese Art and Archaeology from Princeton University in 2000. Her research concentrates on Japanese painting of the fourteenth through the sixteenth century, with a particular focus on narrative handscroll painting and the interrelationship of literary and pictorial forms. She has recently completed a book manuscript on medieval small-format picture scrolls, which attempts, among other things, to theorize the relationship of scale and format to pictorial representation. Other projects include a second book-length study tentatively entitled "White Lines: Gender, Female Authorship and the Tradition of Hakubyo Painting in Japan," and articles to appear in English and Japanese concerning pictorial representations of The Tale of Genji, as well as the tale's reception among women in the sixteenth century.
