Alison Miller
March 2, 2020
Dr. Alison Miller is Assistant Professor of Art History at The University of the South - Sewanee. She is a scholar of Asian art who specializes in modern and contemporary Japanese art, prints and photography, and the intersections of gender studies and visual culture.
Dr. Miller earned a Ph.D. in Art History at the University of Kansas, M.A. degrees in Art History and Museum Studies from the University of Kansas, and B.A. degrees in Art History and Anthropology from Northern Illinois University. Her research has been funded by a Fulbright Fellowship, Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship, and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship. She has published in TransAsia Photography Review, Impressions, and various museum catalogues.
Dr. Miller’s book manuscript, tentatively titled, "The Feminine Imperial Image in Japan, 1868-1952" addresses how prints, photographs, and paintings of the modern Japanese empresses were used to construct norms of modern femininity and class.
Lecture: “Images of the Imperial: The Modern Japanese Empresses in Visual Culture”
March 2, 4:00 pm, McMaster 214