ALICE Y. TSENG

725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 210C
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
Telephone: (617) 353-1458
Fax: (617) 353-3243
E-mail: aytseng@bu.edu

Director of Graduate Studies, Art History
Assistant professor, Japanese art and architecture;
B.A., Columbia University; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University

Professor Tseng joined the faculty of Boston University in fall 2004. Her specialization encompasses the art and architecture of Japan, with particular focus on the 19th and 20th centuries. Specific topics of research interest are the history of institutional buildings, collections, exhibitions, and transnational and transcultural connections between Japan and Euro-America. She offers lecture courses on the arts of Asia; the arts of Japan; and modern Japanese architecture; and seminar courses on Japanese print culture; the Edo-Meiji transition; and constructs of the Japanese art canon. Professor Tseng has received fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (National Gallery of Art), and the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute (Harvard University). She is a J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the 2006-07 year, and the recipient of the 2006 Founder’s Award from the Society of Architectural Historians for her article “Styling Japan: The Case of Josiah Conder and the Museum at Ueno, Tokyo.” Her book on the Imperial Museums of Japan is forthcoming from the University of Washington Press.