Alice Y. Tseng

Alice Y. Tseng currently chairs the Department of History of Art & Architecture at Boston University. Her research interests center on Japan in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially the role of built spaces and the visual arts in cultural transformation, invention, and revival. Tseng’s book publications include The Imperial Museums of Japan: Architecture and the Art of the Nation (Washington, 2008), Kyoto Visual Culture in the Early Edo and Meiji Periods: The Arts of Reinvention (Routledge, 2016, co-edited with Morgan Pitelka), and Modern Kyoto: Building for Ceremony and Commemoration, 1868-1940 (Hawaii, forthcoming fall 2018).