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Curriculum Vitae
Full Name
Chiara Gasparini
First Name
Mariachiara
Last Name
Gasparini
Affiliation
Faculty
Title
Associate Professor
Additional Title
Director of Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies (GCMS)
Office
217 Lawrence Hall
City
Eugene
Departments
History Art & Arch
Affiliated Departments
Asian Studies
Teaching Level
Doctoral
Masters
Undergraduate
Interests
Chinese and Central Asian Art and Architecture, Asian Art, Silk Road Studies, Asian Textiles, Buddhist Art, Sino-Iranian and Turko-Mongol Interactions
Profile Section
Statement

Dr. Gasparini is Assistant Professor of Chinese Art and Architectural History. Previously she taught at the University of California Riverside, San Jose State University, and San Francisco State University. She studied Oriental Languages and Civilizations at the University "Orientale" in Naples and East Asian Art at Sotheby's Institute of Art in London. In 2015, she completed her Ph.D. in Transcultural Studies: Global Art History at the Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Context at Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Her interests include historical, theoretical, and visual investigation of the history of Eurasian art and culture. In particular, her research focuses on Central Asian textiles, material culture, wall painting, artist’s praxis, and Sino-Iranian and Turko-Mongol interactions. 

She is the author of Transcending Patterns: Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textiles (University of Hawai’i Press, 2019), and is currently coediting Trade and Industry: Global Circulation of Local Manufacture, and the Migration and Consumption of Textile Products, both Historically and Contemporaneously. Volume 6. Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of World Textiles (Forthcoming in 2023).

Among her other publications:
 
“Le pitture murarie del Ladakh attraverso l’iconografia tessile centrasiatica (Ladakh Wall Paintings Through Central Asian Textile Iconography),” in WIND HORSES. Tibetan, Himalayan and Mongolian Studies. I CAVALLI DEL VENTO. Studi tibetani, himalayani e mongoli. Series Minor. Edited by A. Drocco, L. Galli, C. Letizia, G. Orofino, C. Simioli. LXXXVIII (December, 2019): 171-191.
 
“Sino-Iranian Textile Patterns in Trans-Himalayan Areas” The Silk Road, vol. 14 (2016): 84-96.
 
“Woven Mythology. The Textile Encounter of Makara, Senmurv and Phoenixes” in the anthology Global Textile Encounters: China, India, Europe. Ancient Textile Series 20, ed. by Marie-Louise Nosch, Zhao Feng, and Lotika Varadarajan. Oxbow Books, 2014; 119-126. (Forthcoming as e-book).
 
“A Mathematic Expression of Art: Sino-Iranian and Uighur Textiles Interactions and the Turfan Textile Collection in Berlin,” in Transcultural Studies Journal 1, (2014): 134-163. http://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/transcultural/article/view/12313.
 
“The Silk Cover of the Admonitions Scroll: Aesthetic and Visual Analysis” in Ming and Qing Studies 2013 (2013): 161-218.
 
 
SELECTED COURSES
 
ARH 208 Art of China
ARH 386 Late Imperial China
ARH 387 Chinese Buddhist Art
ARH 4/510 Through the Looking Glass: Chinese Textiles and Fashion
ARH 610 Arts of the Silk Road
 
https://uoregon.academia.edu/MARIACHIARAGASPARINI
 
 

“Sino-Iranian Textile Patterns in Trans-Himalayan Areas” The Silk Road, vol. 14 (2016): 84-96.

Statement

Mariachiara Gasparini is an Associate Professor of Chinese Art and Architectural History at the University of Oregon. Previously, she taught Asian Art History at the University of California, Riverside, San Jose State University, San Francisco State University, and Santa Clara University. She studied Oriental Languages and Civilization at the University of Oriental Studies in Naples, Italy, earned an M.A. in East Asian Art History from Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London, U.K., and received her Ph.D. in Transcultural Studies: Global Art History from Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, Germany. Gasparini's interests include historical, theoretical, and visual investigation of the history of Eurasian art and culture. Her research focuses on Chinese and Central Asian textiles, material culture, wall painting, artist’s praxis, and Sino-Iranian and Turko-Mongol interactions. She collaborates with museums and institutions worldwide. Between 2012 and 2014, she analyzed and cataloged the Turfan Textile Collection in the Museum of Asian Art in Berlin with the support of the International Dunhuang Project at the British Library, and, in 2016, she compiled the annotated Italian bibliography for the project Buddhist Mural of Kucha on the Northern Silk Road at the Saxony Academy of Science and the University of Leipzig. She is the author of Transcending Patterns: Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textiles (University of Hawai’i Press, 2019), and, of Chapter 6: “Beyond Space and Time: Sino-Iranian Textiles and the Creation of Eurasian Religious Material and Visual Cultures of Power and Sanctity,” in Persian Cultures of Power and the Entanglement of the Afro-Eurasian World, edited by Matthew Canepa (Getty Research Institute Publications, 2024). She is also currently co-editing Volume 6: Trade and Industry: Global Circulation of Local Manufacture, and the Migration and Consumption of Textile Products, both Historically and Contemporaneously of Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of World Textiles. 

Dr. Gasparini is a recipient of the Henry Luce Foundation China Studies Early Career Fellowship 21-22. Her current research project focuses on Tuyuhun and early Tibetan material culture along an external branch of the main Silk Road, across Qinghai and Sichuan Provinces.

 

Among her other publications:

“The ‘Mongol’ Cloud Collar of Serbian Despot John Oliver: A Historical and Iconographic Investigation.” The Journal of Transcultural Studies. Vol.12, No. 1. (2022): Forthcoming (Co-authored with Dr. Vladimir Aleksic, Department of History, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš, Serbia).

“Collars and Wing Sleeves as Marks of Buddhist Royal Patronage.” Connecting the Art, Literature, and Religion of South and Central Asia: Studies in Honor of Monika Zin. Edited by Ines Konczak-Nagel, Satomi Hiyama, and Astrid Klein. New Delhi: Dev Publishers & Distributors, 2022; 129-138.

 “A Tent for the Afterlife: Remarks on a Qinghai-Sichuanese Panel.” Acta Via Serica. Vol. 6, No.2. (2021): 61-90.

 “Sasanian Textiles” and the “Tang Cosmopolitan Style.” Sasanian Studies. Late Antique Iranian World. Vol I. (2021): 81-97. 

“Sino-Iranian Textile Patterns in Trans-Himalayan Areas.” Silk Road, vol. 14 (2016): 84-96.

“Woven Mythology. The Textile Encounter of Makara, Senmurv and Phoenixes.” Global Textile Encounters: China, India, Europe. Ancient Textile Series 20, ed. by Marie-Louise Nosch, Zhao Feng, and Lotika Varadarajan. Oxbow Books, 2014; 119-126.

“A Mathematic Expression of Art: Sino-Iranian and Uighur Textiles Interactions and the Turfan Textile Collection in Berlin.” Transcultural Studies Journal 1, (2014): 134-163. http://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/transcultural/article/vie....

“The Silk Cover of the Admonitions Scroll: Aesthetic and Visual Analysis.” Ming and Qing Studies (2013): 161-218.

 

https://uoregon.academia.edu/MARIACHIARAGASPARINI

 

SELECTED COURSES

ARH 207 History of Indian Art

ARH 208 History of Chinese Art 

ARH 325 Islamic Art (focusing on China and Central Asia)

ARH 382 Arts of the Silk Road

ARH 387 Chinese Buddhist Art

ARH 4/510 Arts of the Silk Road

ARH 4/581 Through the Looking Glass: Chinese Textiles, Fashion, and Art

ARH 4/581 Chinese Architecture

ARH 4/581 Chinese Funerary Art

ARH 607 Who Owns Art? Provenance, Acquisition, and Ownership

ARH 607 From "Cultural" to "Transcultural" to "Cultural Appropriation"

 

FALL 2024

ARH387 Chinese Buddhist Art  (TR 10:00 - 11:20 AM - ESL 199); ARH4/510 Arts of the Silk Road (TR 2:00 - 3:20 PM - LA 241)

 

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