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Alexandra Tunstall

Art history professor

Education

  • Ph.D., art history and archaeology, Columbia University
  • M.Phil., art history and archaeology, Columbia University
  • M.A., history of art, University of Kansas
  • B.A., art history, Oberlin College

Credentials

  • Professor of art history, 2018–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Adjunct professor of art history, 2016–17
    Adjunct professor of art history, 2008–09, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA
  • Assistant gallery manager, 2000–02, Weisbrod Chinese Art, Ltd., New York
  • Curatorial intern, Summer 1993–95, Freer/Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Art History Department Dissertation Fellowship, Columbia University, 2006–07
  • Art History Department Teaching Fellowship, Columbia University, 2005–06
  • Art History Department Summer Travel Fellowship, Columbia University, Summer 2005
  • Louise Wallach Hackney Fellowship for the Study of Chinese Art, American Oriental Society, 2004–05
  • Turza Family Endowment Fund Teaching Assistant Fellowship, Columbia University/Barnard College, 2004–05
  • Art History Department Teaching Assistant Fellowship, Columbia University, 2003–04
  • Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, University of Kansas, 1998–99, 1999–2000
  • Graduate Direct Exchange Scholarship to Nanjing University, 1999–2000
  • Henry David Fellowship, History of Art Department, University of Kansas, 1997–98

Organizations

  • Association for Asian Studies
  • College Art Association
  • Southeast College Art Conference

Publications and presentations

Publications

  • "Beyond Categorization: Zhu Kerou's Tapestry Painting, 'Butterfly and Camellia,'" East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine Journal, Vol. 36, 2012. 
  • "Ma Quan," Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
  • "Phoenix and Dove Tails: Techniques and Technology Used to Weave Pictorial Kesi, Chinese Silk Tapestry," Cloth Cultures: Future Legacies of Dorothy K. Burnham, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Nov. 2017.

Presentations

  • "Woven Writing: A Calligraphy Scroll at the Court of the Qianlong Emperor," presented at Liberal Arts Lecture Series, SCAD Atlanta, Oct. 2, 2018.
  • "A Mischievous Old Man Stealing Peaches: Images of the Daoist Immortal Dongfang Shuo in Ming-Dynasty (1368–1644) China," presented at Southeast College Art Conference, Roanoke, Va., October 2016.
  • "A Woman's Woven Painting in Literati Circles: Zhu Kerou's Butterfly and Camellia," presented at Association of Asian Studies, Chicago, March 2009.
  • "Butterfly and Camellia: A Woman's Woven Painting in the History of Chinese Art," invited guest lecture at Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, Ga., April 10, 2008.
  • "Targeting Their Market: Women's Painting as Commodity in Ming-Dynasty China," presented at Commodities: Art to Order, University of Kansas History of Art Graduate Students Symposium, Lawrence, Kan., March 13, 1999.