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Julie Nelson Davis joined the faculty in 2002 and teaches the arts of East Asia from 1600 to the present. Davis received her B.A. from Reed College, studied in Japan as a Monbushô fellow at the Osaka University of Foreign Languages and at Gakushûin University, and completed her Ph.D at the University of Washington. Her primary research concerns Ukiyo-e, the “images of the floating world,” and her book on Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806) will be published by Reaktion Books in 2007. Davis was a Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, affiliated with the University of East Anglia, Norwich, and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, during the calendar year 2003. Recent publications include an article on Utamaro in the anthology The Artist as Professional in Japan (Stanford University Press, 2004), a study of a painting by Teisai Hokuba in The Allen Memorial Museum of Art Bulletin (2003), the main text of Ukiyo-e: Bilder fra den Flytende Verden (Pictures from the Floating World) (Bergen Kunstmuseum, 2004), and an essay on Utamaro and his contemporaries in The Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints (Hotei Books, 2005).
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