Noriko Murai

ムライノリコ | Noriko Murai

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Professor

Research field (3)： Art history , Aesthetics and art studies , Gender studies

Research keywords (7)： Art History , modern art , History of Japan-US Cultural Contact , Japonisme , Gender Studies , Feminism , Japanese Studies

Research theme for competitive and other funds (10)：

2022 - 2023 Feminism and Female Empowerment in the 21st-Century Academy
2018 - 2023 Digital Social Science and Oral Narrative Research
2019 - 2021 Heisei Becomes History: Critical Reflections on a Period and Periodization
2016 - 2017 Materialities of the Scared
2013 - 2017 Japanese Literature in Motion: Translation, Circulation and the States of World Literature

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Papers (9)：

Noriko Murai. The Portrait of a Modern Lady: Representation of Gender and Kannon Bodhisattva in J. S. Sargent's Isabella Stewart Gardner. ジャポニスム研究 = Studies in Japonisme. 2018. 38(別冊). 38. 43-48
村井則子. ボストン美術館と日本美術 : ジャポニスムを超えて. ジャポニスム研究 = Studies in Japonisme. 2014. 34(別冊). 34. 103-107
Nozomi Naoi, Noriko Murai. Selected Annotated Bibliography of Okakura Kakuzō. Review of Japanese Culture and Society. 2012. 24. 196-209
Noriko Murai, Yukio Lippit. Okakura Kakuzō: A Reintroduction. Review of Japanese Culture and Society. 2012. 24. 1-14
Noriko Murai. Okakura's Way of Tea: Representing Chanoyu in Early Twentieth-Century America [revised reprint]. Review of Japanese Culture and Society. 2012. 24. 70-93

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MISC (12)：

高木陽子, 村井則子, 高馬京子, 藤原貞朗. 今、ジャポニスムを考える. 鴨東通信. 2022. 2-7
Report about the COIL course taught by Noriko Murai (Sophia University) and Alessia Carpoca (University of Montana) in "The Exciting Future of Collaborative International Education". Cross-Cultural Collaboration Illuminates New Perspectives on Art. Sophia Magazine. 2021. 12. 11-11
Noriko Murai. Aesthetic Life: Beauty and Art in Modern Japan [book review]. Monumenta Nipponica. 2021. 76. 2. 395-400
村井則子他. ジャポニスム学会40周年記念フォーラムジャポニスム研究の可能性 : 歴史と現在-The Society for the Study of Japonisme 40th Anniversary Forum : Japonisme as a Field of Study : Past, Present, and Possibilities. ジャポニスム研究 = Studies in Japonisme. 2021. 41. 95-107
Beauty in the Age of Empire: Japan, Egypt, and the Global History of Aesthetic Education [book review]. International Journal of Asian Studies. 2020. 1-3

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Books (23)：

Group Dynamics: Collectives of the Modernist Period (edited by Matthias Mühling)
Hatje Cantz 2022 ISBN:3775750401
ジャポニスムを考える-日本文化表象をめぐる他者と自己
思文閣出版 2022 ISBN:4784220348
ジャポニスムを考える-日本文化表象をめぐる他者と自己
2022 ISBN:4784220348
ジャポニスムを考える-日本文化表象をめぐる他者と自己
思文閣出版 2022 ISBN:4784220348
Japan in the Heisei era (1989-2019) : multidisciplinary perspectives
Routledge 2022 ISBN:0367221675

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Lectures and oral presentations (42)：

Painting Okakura Tenshin: Hisamatsu Tomoko’s Genealogical Imagination of Modern Japanese Art
(The Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting 2024)
Modern Japanese Painting and the Transnational Diffusion of Pictorial Blurriness Around 1900
(The Asian Studies Japan Conference 2022)
Re-Appropriating Culture: Japonisme in Contemporary Japan and the US
(MSU Asian Studies Center Global Virtual Speakers Program, , sponsored by the MSU Japan Council, Asian Studies Center, Department of Art, Art History & Design, Asian Pacific American Studies Program, and Global Studies in the Arts & Humanities, Michigan State University 2022)
Japonisme Today: Exhibiting Cultures and Exhibition Cultures in Our Time
(Japan Forum Lecture Series, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, co-sponsored by the East Asian Art Program at Harvard University, Harvard University 2022)
Japonisme/ Japonisumu/Nihonshugi: Cultural Representation as Mis-Correspondence
(The Society for the Study of Japonisme 40th Anniversary Forum “Japonisme as a Field of Study: Past, Present, and Possibilities”)

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Education (1)：

1994 - 2003 Harvard University The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of History of Art and Architecture

Professional career (3)：

BA in History of Art, summa cum laude, phi beta kappa (University of California, Berkeley)
MA in History of Art and Architecture (Harvard University)
PhD in History of Art and Architecture (Harvard University)

Work history (15)：

2023/04 - 現在 Sophia University Faculty of Liberal Arts / Graduate Program in Global Studies Professor
2014 - 2023/04 Sophia University Faculty of Liberal Arts / Graduate Program in Global Studies Associate Professor
2007 - 2021 Osaka University of Economics and Law Centre for Asia Pacific Partnership Visiting Researcher
2021 - The Lenbachhaus, Munich Consulted expert for the exhibit "Group DynamicsーCollectives of the Modernist Period"
2017/09 - 2018/06 Harvard University Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Visiting Scholar

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Committee career (7)：

2022 - 現在 Monumenta Nipponica Advisory Board Member
2014 - 現在 Asian Studies Conference Japan Executive Committee Member
2012 - 現在 Journal of History of Modern Art, the Korean Association for History of Modern Art Editorial Board Member
2021 - 2022 Society for the Study of Japonisme Secretary General
2019 - 2021 Association for Asian Studies Elected Member, Council of Conferences

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Awards (11)：

2017 - Terra Foundation for American Art Research Travel Grant to the United States Visualizing Transformation: East Asian Inspired Images of Water in the Work of John La Farge
2014 - Sophia University Publication Grant Inventing Asia: American Perceptions Around 1900
2009 - Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) Honorable mention in the category "Outstanding Exhibition Catalogue" of the Annual Awards for Excellence Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia
2002 - Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inaugural Scholar-in-Residence
1999 - Harvard University Derek Bok Center Award for Distinction in Teaching

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Association Membership(s) (5)：

Japan Art History Forum , イメージ&ジェンダー研究会 , 美術史学会 , Association for Asian Studies , Society for the Study of Japonisme

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