Yifei Wang
Position title: Ph.D. Student; Joan B. Mirviss Japanese Art Project Assistant; Chazen Museum of Art Project Assistant
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Email: wang3526@wisc.edu
Education
B.A. University of International Business and Economics, 2019
M.A. University of California, Los Angeles, 2020
M.A. Boston University, 2023
Research Interests
Japanese art, traveling artists, cartography, landscape painting, representation of space, history of technology.
Biography
Yifei Wang’s research examines traveling artists and their engagement with regional histories, urban transformations, and cultural geographies in Meiji and Taishō Japan, with a particular focus on the painter and calligrapher Tomioka Tessai (1836–1924).
Awards
2026 Douglas Schewe Award for Best Graduate Student Paper
Primary Advisor(s)
Steffani Bennett