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	Kindall, Elizabeth
	Assistant Professor kind4275@stthomas.edu Phone: (651) 962-5563 Toll Free: (800) 328-6819, Ext. 2-5563 Fax: (651) 962-5861 57P Office Location: 2057 Portland Ave.
B.A., Missouri State University M.A., Ph.D., University of Kansas Specialization: Chinese Art Elizabeth Kindall's research focus is Chinese art, specifically Chinese painting from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Her current projects investigate the functional visual experiences captured in certain paintings of real places through examinations of their distinctive topographical vocabulary and site-specific views. Publications "Experiential Readings and the Grand View: Mount Jizu by Huang Xiangjian (1609-1673)," Art Bulletin (September 2012) forthcoming. "Envisioning a Monastery: A Seventeenth-Century Buddhist Fund-Raising Appeal Album," T'oung Pao 97 (2011) 104-159. "Visual Experience in Late-Ming Suzhou 'Honorific' and 'Famous Sites' Paintings," Ars Orientalis 36 (2009) 137-177. "The Paintings of Huang Xiangjian's Filial Journey to the Southwest," Artibus Asiae 67 (2007), no. 2: 297-357. Exhibitions Co-curator, "The Lady at the Window: Figure Painting in the Qing Dynasty," Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Fall 2001. Papers, Conferences and Symposia Discussant, "Place, Memory, and Visuality in Chinese Painting," Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, March 16, 2012. "Art Historical Field Notes: The Experience of 'The Site'." College Art Association Annual Meeting, New York City, February 10, 2011 "The Filial Son of Suzhou: Huang Xiangjian," Suzhou Museum, Suzhou China, June 20, 2009. "The Filial Campaign of Huang Xiangjian," Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, St. Olaf College and Carleton College, October 11, 2008. "Recreating the Pilgrimage Experience in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Painting: Circumambulating Mount Jizu," guest lecture, Missouri State University, April 20, 2007. "Local Geography in a 1656 Painting of Mount Jizu," paper delivered at the International Symposium on Chinese Local History, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 5, 2004. Recent Research Grants Research Grant, University of St. Thomas, 2011. Graduate Research Team Grant, University of St. Thomas, 2011. Junior Scholar Grant, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, 2010 Research Travel Grant, Universitiy of Utah Department of Art and Art History, 2005 Dissertation Research Grant, Asian Cultural Council, 2004 Dissertation Research Grant, Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies, Tokyo, 1999-2000 Louise Wallace Hackney Fellowship for the Study of Chinese Art, American Oriental Society, 1998-1999 Courses Offered Chinese Painting; Buddhist Art; Chinese Sculpture and Architecture. Sample Seminars Shanghai Modern!; Chinese Pictorial Narrative; Painting and Place in China, Art and Politics in China