About
Peiyuan is a Ph.D. student in premodern Japanese art history. She has long been interested in visual culture and its intersections with religious practice, particularly the relationship between visual narrative, sacred space, and devotional practice. She is especially interested in how visual materials communicate with broader communities and mediate religious experience.
Peiyuan received her B.A. in Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures from Barnard College, Columbia University (2026), where she completed her senior thesis on a set of fourteenth-century Japanese Buddhist narrative paintings of the Lotus Sutra and the pictorial storytelling (etoki) practices associated with them.
