Noelle Giuffrida
noelle.giuffrida@case.edu
Assistant Professor of East Asian Art
Ph.D. University of Kansas, 2008
M.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.A. Vassar College
Dr. Giuffrida is a specialist in East Asian art, with particular emphasis on Chinese art from the tenth through seventeenth centuries. Her teaching interests include: visual narratives in the arts of China and Japan; East Asian painting; the historiography of collecting and exhibiting Asian art; contemporary Chinese art; landscape arts of East Asia; and the visual and material culture of Daoism, Buddhism, and Shinto.
Her recent research focuses on the visual culture of Ming China (1368-1644) and the multivalent uses, meanings, patronage, transmission, and reception of images of the Daoist god Zhenwu [the Perfected Warrior]. Her article, "Manifestations, Miracles, and Interventions: Constructing Visual Narratives for Zhenwu" is forthcoming.
Prior to joining the department at CWRU in 2009, Giuffrida taught at Vassar College. She has also served as a curatorial researcher and museum educator at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation and the American Oriental Society have supported Giuffrida's research.
Her ongoing projects include a series of Ming visual culture case studies and an exploration of the historiography of collecting East Asian Art in the West. She is chairing a panel, The Roles of Acquisition: Collecting Chinese and Japanese Art in Europe, the United States, Britain, and Australia During the Early to Middle 20th Century, at the College Art Association conference in 2010.