“Playing on the Concept of Women's Work: Silk as Gendered Medium in the Art of Yu Hong.”For the panel Women, Labor, and Textiles in Contemporary Asian Art. 2016 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Seattle, Wash. (31 March 2016)

"Reclaiming Female Subjectivity: Images of Women, Past and Present, in the Art of Cui Xiuwen and Yu Hong." For the panel Tradition and Modernity. Female Embodiment of the Visual World: Women's Art in Contemporary China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me. (28 September 2013)

“Rethinking Male-Authored Images of Women: Feminism and the Gaze in the Work of Two Contemporary Chinese Artists.” Friday Faculty Lunch Series, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, N.Y. (30 August 2013)

"Interiority and Surface, Gender and Performance: Mirrors and Makeup in Song Dynasty Painting and Poetry." For the panel Rhetorics of Eroticism in Chinese Art and Literature, Song to Ming. 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Toronto, Ont. (17 March 2012)

“Mirrors, Makeup, and Meaning in Song Dynasty Painting and Poetry.” Friday Faculty Lunch Series, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, N.Y. (9 March 2012)

"Four Courtesans," Asian Student Union, Comstock Dining Hall, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, N.Y. (19 September 2009)

"Asian Landscapes and Art," Environmental Studies Summer Youth Institute, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, N.Y. (16 July 2009)

Discussant for the panel Redrawing the Map: Displacement and Geography in Song-Yuan Literary and Visual Discourses. The Thirteenth Asian Studies Conference Japan, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan. (20–21 June 2009)

"Rinpa School Painting and the Yamato-e Tradition," for the Corning-Kakegawa Committee of the Sister Cities Association, 171 Cedar Arts Center, Corning, N.Y. (10 May 2009)

"Gardens for Strolling and Contemplation in Kyōto," for the Corning-Kakegawa Committee of the Sister Cities Association, Southeast Steuben County Library, Corning, N.Y. (26 July 2008)

"Images of Nature," Environmental Studies Summer Youth Institute, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, N.Y. (18 July 2007, 16 July 2008)

“The Emperor’s New Clothes: Desire and Politics in Huizong’s Court Ladies Preparing Newly Woven Silk.” For the panel What Is Not-So-Ordinary about the Ordinary: Decoding the Social and Political Rhetoric behind Early Modern Chinese Imagery, 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Boston, Mass. (22–25 March 2007).

“Desire and Politics in Emperor Huizong’s Court Ladies Preparing Newly Woven Silk, ca. 1100-25.” Friday Faculty Lunch Series, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, N.Y. (2 March 2007)

"Picturing Femininity in China and Japan," A Weekend of Workshops for Asia Scholars, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, N.Y. (2–3 February 2007)

"Introduction to Chinese Art, " Learning and Teaching about Asia, HWS Asia Teaching Partnership and Wayne-Finger Lakes Teacher Resource Center, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, N.Y. (9 December 2006)

"Landscapes for Travel, Sightseeing, Wandering, and Life: Chinese and Japanese Paintings, Prints, and Gardens," Environmental Studies Summer Youth Institute, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, N.Y. (13 July 2006)

"Traditional Japanese Architecture," for the Corning-Kakegawa Committee of the Sister Cities Association, Southeast Steuben County Library, Corning, N.Y. (8 January 2006)

"The Song Dynasty Courtesan's Performance of Desire: Subjectivity and Representation in Chinese Poetry and Painting," Singing Girls, Lesbian Courtesans, and Happy Hookers: Hidden Pleasures in China, India, and the United States, for the Thirteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Scripps College, Claremont, Calif. (2–5 June 2005)

Co-Chair (with Professor Roslyn Hammers, Whitman College), The Song Dynasty Beyond the Song: Its Legacy Within and Outside China, for the College Art Association 93rd Annual Conference, Atlanta, Ga. (16–19 February 2005)

"Reconfiguring Integrity: The Scholar's Image in Chinese Painting, Song to Ming," for the symposium New Research on Chinese Painting, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Mich. Invited speaker. (9 November 2002)

"Revisiting Han Xizai: Night Revels Reinterpreted by Artists of the People's Republic of China," for the panel Premodern Iconography and Contemporary Intervisuality of "China," The New York Conference on Asian Studies 2002 Annual Meeting, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (25–26 October 2002)

"Nature through the Eyes of Artists" (with Professor Michael Bogin), Environmental Studies Summer Youth Institute, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, N.Y. (17 July 2002)

"Sexuality and Politics in Twelfth-Century Chinese Painting," Friday Faculty Lunch Series, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, N.Y. (1 February 2002)

"The Traveling Man's Longing for One Left Behind: An Alternate Reading of the Lonely Woman in Song Dynasty Paintings," for the panel Pygmalion Revisited: Female Image as Male Self-Representation, 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, Ill. (22–25 March 2001)

"Evoking Feelings (Qing) through Scenes (Jing): A Pictorial Strategy for Representing Longing in Song Paintings of Lonely Women," for the panel Women and/as Rhetorical Tropes in Chinese Poetic and Visual Cultural Productions, Han through Song, American Association for Chinese Studies 42nd Annual Conference, San Francisco, Calif. (27–29 October 2000)

"Lonely Women and the Absent Man: The Masculine Landscape as Metaphor in Song Dynasty Paintings of Women," for Panel VII-C, "Landscape Representation III," of the conference Gendered Landscapes: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Past Place and Space, The Center for Studies in Landscape History, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. (29 May–1 June 1999)

"A Scholar-Painter's Appropriation of the Past: Rhetoric in the Southern Song Handscroll Pounding Cloth," for the panel "Reconfiguring the Past" of the graduate student conference Souvenir, Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. (10 October 1998)

"Reveling in the Company of Courtesans: The (Mis)representation of Romance in a Song Dynasty Painting," for an interdisciplinary panel, Love and Sex/ Violence and Patriarchy: Critical Reflections on Gendered Representation, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. (5 December 1997)



Awards & Fellowships
2020 Faculty Prize for Scholarship, Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
2020 Joseph Levenson Pre-1900 Book Prize (China), The Association for Asian Studies (for the book Song Dynasty Figures of Longing and Desire: Gender and Interiority in Chinese Painting and Poetry).
2018– Lloyd Wright Professorship in Conservative Studies, Hobart & William Smith Colleges.
2003–13, 2016–18 Faculty Research Grant, Hobart & William Smith Colleges.
2016 Franklin R. Buchanan Prize for Asia Curriculum Materials, The Association for Asian Studies (for the co-authored textbook Asian Art).
2009–11 Freeman Asia Senior Colloquium Grant, Freeman Foundation.
2001 Women's Studies/ Rackham One-Term Dissertation Fellowship, University of Michigan.
2000–2001 Center for Chinese Studies Endowment Award, University of Michigan.
2000 Rackham Travel Grant, University of Michigan.
1999–2000 Rackham Merit Fellowship, University of Michigan.
1999 Rackham Travel Grant, University of Michigan.
1998 Freer Fellowship, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution.
1997 "Community of Scholars" Eight-Month Fellowship for Research on Women and Gender, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan.
1996–97 Center for Chinese Studies Endowment Award, University of Michigan.
1996–97 Center for Chinese Studies Peking-American School Fellowship in Traditional Chinese Studies, University of Michigan.
1994 Center for Chinese Studies Endowment Award, University of Michigan.
1993–94 National Taiwan Normal University Advanced Language Training Fellowship, Ministry of Education, Republic of China.
1993 Katherine Taylor Fellowship, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan.
1992 Marvin Eisenberg Award for Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies, Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan.
1990–94 Rackham Merit Fellowship, University of Michigan.