Yifei Wang
Position title: Ph.D. Student; Joan B. Mirviss Japanese 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 objects in late nineteenth- to early twentieth-century Japan. Her research interests include cartography, landscape representation, and the ways in which travel and transportation methods conditioned artistic practices during the Meiji and Taishō periods.
Primary Advisor(s)
Steffani Bennett