Rebecca Bieberly

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History
311A Wilson Hall
Phone: (248) 370-2541 

Education
2013 Ph.D., University of Michigan
History of Art Department
Advisor: Martin J. Powers
Dissertation: “Seeing” the “Ordinary” at Lingyan Temple in Eleventh-Century China”

2008 M.A., University of Michigan
History of Art Department
Advisor: Martin J. Powers

2005 Qinghua University (Beijing, China)
Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Study (summer)

2004 B.A., Portland State University (Portland, OR)
Foreign Language: Chinese
Arts and Letters

2002-2003 Central University for Nationalities (Beijing, China)
Oregon University System Study Abroad

Teaching
2019 Summer Adjunct faculty, Portland State University (Portland, OR)
2018-2019 Adjunct faculty, College for Creative Studies (Detroit, MI)
2014-2018 Visiting Assistant Professor, Art History, Oakland University (Rochester, MI)
2014 Winter Lecturer, Oakland University (Rochester, MI)
2012-2014 Lecturer, Adrian College (Adrian, MI)

Courses Taught
World Art History
Arts of Asia and the Islamic World (lecture & online)
History of Western Art, Prehistory through Medieval (lecture & online)
Visual Narratives: Asia
Buddhist Art (upper-level)
Chinese Art (upper-level)
Issues in Contemporary East Asian Art (upper-level; online)
Senior Thesis in Art History II

Awards
2017 “Order of the Plume” teaching award, College of Arts and Sciences, Oakland University

Presentations/Papers
2017 August “The Experience of Seeing: the Lingyan Temple Luohan Sculptures and Song Dynasty Visual Practices”
Second conference of the European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology, Zurich, Switzerland

2017 August “Naturalistic Style, Natural Gesture: A study of Lingyan Temple’s Song-era Luohan Sculptures”
XVIIIth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Toronto, Canada (unable to attend)

2016 April “The Authenticity of a Natural Gesture: The Northern Song-era Luohan Sculptures of Lingyan Temple”
Annual conference of the Midwest Art History Society, Chicago, IL

2014 October “Unstable Objects: the Luohan Sculptures of Lingyan Temple and Song Dynasty Viewing Practices”
Michigan Asian Arts Society, Royal Oak, MI

2013 March “‘True’ Images: Lingyan Temple Luohan and ‘Authenticity’ in Eleventh-Century China”
Annual meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, San Diego, CA

Publications
“Envisioning Prints as Paintings: Folios from Chinese Art Books in the Detroit Institute of Arts,” Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, 92 (Fall, 2018): 20-35.

“True Images? The Lingyan Temple Luohan Sculptures and the Politics of Pictorial Naturalism in Song-era China” (Archives of Asian Art¬-forthcoming Fall 2020)

“Naturalism and Naturalness: Gesture and the Song-era Monastic Sculptures of Lingyan Temple” (in progress)

Museum Experience
2016-2017 Consulting Curator of Chinese and Korean Art, Asian Gallery Reinstallation project
Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI)

2012 Guest Curator/Research Assistant “Chinese Folk Pottery: Art of the Everyday”
University of Michigan Museum of Art (Ann Arbor, MI)

2003-2004 Curatorial Intern
Asian Art, Portland Art Museum (Portland, Oregon)

Fellowships and Grants
2011-2012 Louise Wallace Hackney Fellowship, American Oriental Society

2011 Rackham Humanities Research Fellowship, University of Michigan

2009 Rackham International Research Award, University of Michigan

2008-2009 Freer Gallery of Art In-Residency Fellowship (Washington, D.C.)

2008 Summer Language Institute Fellowship, Department of Asian Language and Cultures, University of Michigan

2007 International Institute Individual Fellowship, University of Michigan

2006 Center for Chinese Studies Fellowship, University of Michigan

2005 Peking-American School Fellowship, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan

2002-2003 Freeman Award for Study in Asia

Professional Affiliation
Association of Asian Studies
College Art Association
International Association of Buddhist Studies
Midwest Art History Society

Languages
Modern (Mandarin) Chinese reading and speaking
Classical Chinese reading
Japanese elementary reading