Early Modern

Matthew McKelway

mckelwayMatthew McKelway

TAKEO AND ITSUKO ATSUMI PROFESSOR OF JAPANESE ART HISTORY

Office: 919 Schermerhorn Hall
Phone: (212) 854-3182
Email: mpm8@columbia.edu

Educational Background

PhD: Columbia University (’99)

Classes Taught

HUMA OC1121 Masterpieces of Western Art
AHIS GR8609 Calligraphy in East Asia
AHIS GR8128 Edo Period Painting

Research Interests

Japanese Art History, Urban Representation, Materiality of Painting

Matthew McKelway specializes in the history of Japanese painting. His research has focused on urban representation in rakuchū rakugai zu (screen paintings of Kyoto), the development of genre painting in early modern Japan, Kano school painting, and individualist painters in 18th century Kyoto. Interests in the materiality and techniques of Japanese painting and the early Kano workshop have led to recent articles and a current book project on fan paintings as media for social intercourse and pictorial experimentation. In addition to his research on fan paintings, he is conducting an ongoing study of the painter Nagasawa Rosetsu.

The courses McKelway offers include surveys of Japanese art and more specialized undergraduate courses on painting and Buddhist art. Topics of graduate seminars and lectures have ranged from narrative handscrolls and Muromachi ink painting to the Kano school, Rimpa, and Edo-period painting. To graduate students in Japanese art history and other disciplines he also offers instruction in reading early Japanese scripts (hentaigana/kuzushiji). Current doctoral students have received research fellowships from the Fulbright commission, the Japan Foundation, the Japanese Ministry of Education, and the Shinchō Foundation.

Professor McKelway has been the Ishibashi Gastprofessur at the University of Heidelberg, and has also held visiting professorships at the Free University of Berlin and Waseda University. His Department of Art History & Archaeology page can be found here.

Selected Publications

Silver Wind: The Arts of Sakai Hōitsu (1761-1828) (Japan Society/Yale University Press, 2012)

Capitalscapes: Folding Screens and Political Imagination in Late Medieval Kyoto (University of Hawaii, 2006)

Traditions Unbound: Groundbreaking Painters from Eighteenth-Century Kyoto (San Francisco Asian Art Museum, 2005)

Jungwon Kim

Jungwon Kim

Director of Graduate Studies, King Sejong Associate Professor of Korean Studies

Office: 402 Kent Hall
Office Hours: T 4:00-6:00 pm
Email: jk3638@columbia.edu

Educational Background

PhD: Harvard University (’07)

Classes Taught

ASCE UN1363 Introduction to East Asian Civilizations: Korea

HEAS W3862 The History of Korea to 1900

EAAS W4310 Narrating Premodern Korea

HSEA W4860 Culture and Society of Chosŏn Korea, 1392-1910

EAAS W4888 Women and Gender in Korean History

HSEA G8861 Colloquium on Korean History to 1900
EAAS UN3412 Conflict & Culture in Korean History
HSEA GR9860 Korean Historical Texts

Research Interests

Premodern Korean History; Legal History; Gender and Sexuality and Women’s Writing

Jungwon Kim is a historian specializing in premodern Korea, with a focus on the Chosŏn Dynasty (1392-1910). Her research examines gender and sexuality, law and justice, crime and punishment, ritual and emotion, women’s writings, and the history of knowledge. She is the author of Virtue That Matters: Chastity Culure and Social Power in Chosŏn Korea, 1392-1910 (Harvard University Press, 2025). Her other works include co-authoring Wrongful Death: Selected Inquest Records from Nineteenth-Century Korea (University of Washington Press, 2019). She also edited the special issue, “Archives, Archival Practices, and the Writing of History in Premodern Korea” (Journal of Korean Studies, 2019). Her articles have appeared in major journals, including Acta Koreana, Gender and History, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Women’s History, Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture, and Journal of Korean Studies. She is currently completing a book manuscript, tentatively titled Families in Trials: Local Courts and Legal Culture in Chosŏn Korea. She earned her PhD from Harvard University, previously taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton before coming to Columbia.

Selected Publications

“Inscribing Grievances, Litigation, and Local Community in Eighteenth-Century Korea,” Journal of Asian Studies 81.2 (2022)

Beyond Death: The Politics of Suicide and Martyrdom in Korean History (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019), co-edited with Charles Kim, Hwasook Nam, and Serk-bae Suh.

“Between Morality and Crime: Filial Daughters and Vengeful Violence in Eighteenth Century Korea,” Acta Koreana (2018)

Wrongful Death: Selected Inquest Records from Nineteenth Century Korea (with Sun Joo Kim, Washington, 2014)

“You Must Avenge on My Behalf: Widow Chastity and Honor in Nineteenth-Century Korea”, Gender and History (2014)