| Department Affiliation | EALC |
| Date Elected | 2022 |
| Biographical Sketch | Bryce Heatherly is an art historian and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. He writes broadly about the history and theory of art and architecture in China and Korea from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries. Within this field, his research centers on questions about practices of making, focusing especially on their intersections with Buddhism. His dissertation, “Patterns of Time and Pagodas in Jiangnan, 900–1100,” is a study of multi-story pagodas built in southeastern China, which examines the link between practices of building pagodas and understandings of time. Drawing on recent archaeological studies of pagodas and a corpus of more than two hundred inscribed texts discovered inside them, “Patterns of Time” explores how, over the course of the tenth and eleventh centuries, pagodas became sites where multiple understandings of time—dynastic transition, biography, material persistence, and Buddhist cycles of rebirth—intersected at every stage of building. At Penn, Bryce has received the Penfield Dissertation Research Fellowship (2022–2023) and the Graduate Fellowship for Teaching Excellence at Penn’s Center for Teaching and Learning (2022–2023). In 2022, he was editor for Chinese material culture at the Digital Orientalist. |
| Relevant Links | https://ealc.sas.upenn.edu/people/bryce-heatherly https://digitalorientalist.com/author/bryceheatherly/ |