Bryce Heatherly
Editor for Chinese Material Culture
Bryce Heatherly
Editor for Chinese Material Culture
Bryce Heatherly is a PhD student in the East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC) department of the University of Pennsylvania studying the visual and material cultures of China’s Middle Period (eighth–fifteenth centuries). Broadly, he is interested in material religion, premodern technologies of artistic reproduction, and historical viewing practices. His dissertation examines the meanings attached to devotional art of sculptures, reliquaries, and illuminated books of the tenth-century Wu-Yue Kingdom in southern China. In and beyond this project, he aims to explore digital tools for image annotation and their uses for understanding and conveying the relationship between visual materials and narrative. Bryce has received fellowships from the National Museum of Korea and the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington DC and has worked as an intern at the Saint Louis Art Museum and the Nanjing Museum.
The Digital Orientalist 