research overview Stephanie Su is an East Asian art historian. Her research interests include the Sino-Japanese relationship, global modernism, historiography, history of collecting and exhibition, the materiality of colors and print culture.
selected publications book History Painting Crossing Borders, a Transnational History of Modern Art in Early Twentieth-Century China and Japan 2025 chapter The Transformation of Bird-and-Flower Painting in the Early Twentieth Century [二十世纪初花鸟画的转变]. 53-71. 2024 你所不知道的浮世繪:新聞浮世繪的暴力美學 [The Ukiyo-e You Don't Know: The Aesthetics of Violence in Ukiyo-e News Prints]. 86-90. 2022 細節的奢華感:欣賞和服之美 (The Luxurious Details: The Beauty of Kimono). 224-231. 2022 Le Japon et La Question de la Modernisation de la Peinture Chinoise. 53-69. 2022 Mimetic Desire and Expressive Colors: New Directions in Modern Chinese Ink Art. 28-35. 2021 Weaving Art, Science, and Modern Design: Keinen's Painting Album of Flowers and Birds. 75-88. 2020 journal article Redefining Femininity in Imperial Japan: The Chinese Female Body in Uemura Shōen's Yōkihi (1922). Japan Forum. 442-466. 2025 History of Japanese Art After 1945: Institutions, Discourse, Practice. Japan Forum. 426-429. 2025 Exhibition as Art Historical Space: The 1933 Chinese Art Exhibition in Paris. The Art Bulletin. 125-148. 2021 The Politics of Painting: Fascism and Japanese Art During the Second World War by Asato Ikeda. 185-193. 2021 愚公移山:中国寓言的国际性意义 (Foolish Man Moving the Mountain: The International Significance of a Chinese Fable) 2020 Sensuous Past: Historical Imagination and Transmedia Aesthetics in Modern China. Frontiers of Literary Studies in China. 440-474. 2019
education and training Ph.D., University of Chicago 2015 M.A., National Central University (Taiwan) 2006 B.A., National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan) 2001
awards and honors The Anne van Biema Fellowship, conferred by Smithsonian, 2024 AAS NEAC Japan Studies Grants, conferred by Association for Asian Studies, 2016 AAS CIAC Small Grants, conferred by Association for Asian Studies, 2013
geographic focus Asia Continent China Country France Country Germany Country Japan Country United Kingdom Country