Department Member, Art History and Archaeology
Thesis Title: Images of the Supernatural Grotesque in Chinese Painting, ca.1200-1500
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Robert Harrist
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About
Chun-Yi 'Joyce' Tsai joined Columbia University in 2006. Before then, she completed her B.A. in English Literature at National Taiwan University and earned an M.A. in East Asian Studies at Harvard University. Her dissertation concerns the origins, transmission, and perception of images of the supernatural grotesque in Song-Yuan China. This project emerged from her interest in Chinese popular culture nurtured in her Harvard years, where she worked on topics related to the lay religion, vernacular literature, and folk arts of Late Imperial China. In between her degrees, she worked in broadcast journalism and in the education and curatorial divisions of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Freer & Sackler Galleries, and The Phillips Collection in Washington D.C.
