B.A., Chinese, University of Minnesota
B.A., English, University of Minnesota
M.A., Art History, University of Minnesota
Doctoral Candidate, Art History, University of Minnesota

Specialization
Chinese Art

Carol Brash is writing her dissertation in art history at the University of Minnesota; it is currently titled Keeping the Past Present: Representations of Gardens in 16th century China. For her M.A. program, her primary area was also Chinese art, with a secondary area in photography. Her M.A. papers were: Shen Zhou's Record of Sitting at Night and John Thomson's Real People. Other recent interests include identity and memory in photography and contemporary Chinese art.

Brash has taught Chinese art, Asian art, and introductory surveys of art at the Universitiy of St. Thomas, the University of Minnesota, the College of St. Benedict, and Hamline University.

Invited Lectures

Gallery tour of Documenting China: Contemporary Photography and Social Change, October 16, 2007. Weisman Art Museum Art Mob.
"Documenting China: Contemporary Photography and Social Change," September 4, 2007. Weisman Art Museum docents.
Gallery tour of House of Oracles: A Huang Yong Ping Retrospective, November 10, 2005. Walker Art Center public progrrams.
"Painting is in Poetry and Poetry is in Painting: The Interaction of Word and Image in Chinese Art," 2003. Minneapolis Institute of Art.
"Scholars in the Garden," October 12, 2002. Minneapolis Institute of Art.
"Ofder and Immortality in the Art of Early Imperial China," August 17, 2002. Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Recent Papers

"Ghosts Pounding on the Great Wall: Contemporary Memories of the Great Wall of China", Nation and Empire: 15th Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism at the London School of Economics, April 12. 2005.
"The Comprehensive Mirror for Identification of Righteous Scholars: Three Representations of the Garden of Solitary Enjoyment (Dule Yuan)", presented at the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, October 9, 2003.

Selected Fellowships/Scholarships

The Stout-Wallace Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 2005-2006
Red Pockets Scholarship, University of Minnesota China Center, 2005