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Biography

Jennifer Noering McIntire is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History in the Department of Visual Arts. She teaches courses in Buddhist Art, Arts of Modern China, and Introduction to Visual Art. Her interests focus on the relationships between religious belief/practice, texts and visual representations. Making Asia art accessible and understandable to a wide variety of people is a passion. Before coming to 51С�Ƴ�, she taught at the Stonehill College, the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, & Rutgers University. She began her career at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in the Asiatic Department. 

Publications: 

“Visualizing Paradise and Configuring Conventions: Cave Temple 334 at Dunhuang,” Bridges to Heaven, (Princeton University Press, 2011).

Ancient Art from the Shumei Collection (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996), contributor.

“Chinese Art at Princeton,” Gallery Talk, The Princeton University Art Museum, September 1993.

“The Empress Dowager’s Treasures: Qing Art from the Collection of Sarah Buchan Jewell,” Bernat Qing Decorative Art Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 3-September 30, 1991 (Curator).

“A Friend of the Dragon Empress: Sarah Pike Conger’s Experiences in Turn-of-the-Century China,” Lowell Lecture Series, September 23, 1991, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Smarthistory Contributions: 

• Introduction to Buddhism:

• The Historical Buddha:

• Bodhisattva, probably Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin):

• Buddha of Medicine Bhaishajyaguru (Yaoshi fo):

• Neo-Confucianism and Fan Kuan, Travelers by Streams and Mountains:

• Mogao caves at Dunhuang:

• Longmen Cave, Luoyang:

•  Funeral banner of Lady Dai (Xin Zhui):