Graduate Students

Leslie Wallace

East Asian Art and Archaeology

lvw1@pitt.edu

In her dissertation, Wallace explores the cultural and pictorial tradition of the hunt in ancient China by focusing on depictions of the hunt in Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 CE) tomb reliefs from Shaanxi and Shanxi.

CV Highlights

Education

PhD     Dissertation Working Title: “Chasing the Beyond: Depictions of Hunting in Eastern Han Dynasty Tomb Reliefs from Shaanxi and Shanxi”

MA     History of Art and Architecture. University of Pittsburgh, “Early Pictorial Bronzes and the Rise and Fall of Ministerial Lineages in Ancient China”

Fellowships, Grants and Internships

2007-2008; 2008-2009     Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship,                                       University of Pittsburgh

2007                John H. Tsui Memorial Award (Nationality Rooms Scholarship)

2007                China Council Pre-Dissertation Grant

2003-2005       Chancellor’s Fellowship in Chinese Studies, University of Pittsburgh

2004                Intensive Summer Japanese Program Scholarship, University of Pittsburgh

2000                Anthropological Collections Intern, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL     

Presentations

April 2008 - “The Qin Legal Texts from Longgang and Royal Hunting Parks in China,”
Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia

March 2008 -“Beings Constantly in Motion: Depictions of Immortals in Eastern Han
Dynasty Tomb Reliefs,” Middle Atlantic Symposium, University of Maryland
and the National Gallery of Art, College Park, Maryland and Washington, DC

January 2008 - “The Hunting Motif and the Spiritualizing of Outsider Lifestyles in Han China” American Institute of Archaeology Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois

October 2005 - “Bronze Mirrors and Ritual in Early Japan,” Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Translations

Guo Moruo, Shi pi-pan shu (Ten Critiques of Classical Philosophy), Excerpts. Written between 1934-1945, Edited by Anthony J. Barbieri-Low.

-- “Qin Shihuang jiang si.” (“The First Emperor of Qin Approaches Death”), 1936. Edited by Anthony Barbieri-Low.

Zheng Wen, “Jing Ke.”(“Biography of Jing Ke”), in Cike liezhuan (Biographies of the Assassin Retainers). Taibei: Shibao Wenhua Chubanshe, 1987), 8-112, Edited by Anthony Barbieri-Low.

Teaching Experience

June-August 2007 - Teaching Fellow for History of Art and Architecture (HAA 0020), Introduction to Asian Art, University of Pittsburgh

September-December 2006 - Teaching Assistant for History of Art and Architecture (HAA 0020), Introduction to Asian Art, Professor Karen M. Gerhart, University of Pittsburgh

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