Telephone number:	+31 (0)71 527 2528
E-Mail:	e.machotka@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department:	Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leiden Institute for Area Studies, SAS Japan
Office Address:	Arsenaal Arsenaalstraat 1 2311 CT Leiden Room number 1.11

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Fields of interest

Among other developing areas of Japanese studies, the research of multifaceted relationships between text and images is taking on a new turn and explores them from a variety of perspective. This new approach, in which I am especially interested, blends “art”, “literary” and “cultural” studies. My research interests encompass also relationships between modern, postmodern and traditional culture; “high arts” and popular culture; Japan and Asian continent, East and West, nationalism, Orientalism, neo-Orientalism and gender. I believe that this interdisciplinary perspective creates new methodological challenges but also brings new fascinating research results.

CV

Education
- Ph.D. in Japanese History of Art (summa cum laude), Gakushūin University, Tokyo, Japan (2003-2008)
- M.A. in Japanese Studies, The Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland (1997-2002)
- M.A. in History of Art, The Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland (1993-1998)

Employment
- Affiliated Researcher, The Department of Oriental Languages, The Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden (2010/11)
- Curator, The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, Sweden (2008/2009)
- Curator, The Department of Far Eastern Art, The National Museum in Kraków, Poland (1999-2008)

Exhibitions
- “ Japan Facing West: Western Influences on Japanese Art 1720-1912”, The Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, Kraków, Poland, (May-October 2011) – co-curator
- “The Floating World: Past or Present?”, The Museum of Cultural History, Oslo, Norway, (March-June 2011) – co-curator
- “Japanese Pictorial Arts”, The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, Sweden (March-May 2011) – individual
- “Manga, Manggha, manga. Comic-strip Form and Animation in Japanese Art”, The National Museum in Kraków (January-March 2001) – co-curator

Key publications

Authored monographs
Hokusai`s Hyakunin isshu: Visual Genesis of Japanese National Identity, Brussels: P.I.E-Peter Lang, 2009.

Academic articles
- “Culture and Nature in Landscape Views from Hokusai’s Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki Print Series.” In Okano Tomoko et al. Kobayashi sensei koki kinen ronbunshū (Essays Collected in Honor of Prof. Kobayashi Tadashi), Tokyo: Geika Shoin, forthcoming.

- ”Kimono and Sword: Performing Japanese in Galician Kraków”, In Joanna Wasilewska, ed. Art of Japan, Japanism and Polish-Japanese Relations, Kraków: Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, forthcoming.

- ”Hashi” - Bridging Past and Present, Bridging East and West. Okamoto Ryūsei and the Tradition of Japanese ukiyo-e Woodblock Print”, Oslo: Museum of Cultural History, 2011, http://www.khm.uio.no/utstillinger2/flytende_verden/

- ”Jasieńskiego Japonia: Orientalizm czy nacjonalizm” (Jasieński`s Japan: Orientalism or Nationalism), In Katarzyna Bałus, ed. Reports of the National Museum in Kraków (Rozprawy i Sprawozdania Muzeum Narodowego w Krakowie), Kraków: National Museum in Kraków, 2010.

- “Katsushika Hokusai ni miru “Nihon”: Edo jidai kōki no kokufū ninshiki no seiritsu wo megutte.” (Japan” as Seen through Hokusai`s Art: National Identity Formation in the late Edo Period), Ukiyo-e Geijutsu (Ukiyo-e Art), Tokyo: Kokusai Ukiyo-e Gakkai, 2008.

- “Japaneseness” as Self and Other: Constructing National Identity – Katsushika Hokusai and Feliks Manggha Jasieński”, In A. Jabłoński, S. Meyer, K. Morita, eds. Civilization of Evolution. Civilization of Revolution. Metamorphoses in Japan, 1900-2000, Kraków: Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, 2008.

- “Reading Japanese Art: Classicism and the Traps of Western Perception”, In Patricia Fister, ed. Research on Art and Music in Japan: A Colloquy with Foreign Scholars Resident in Japan. Japanese Studies Around the World 2006, Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2007.

- “Narodziny „sztuki” i „artysty” – pomiędzy leksyką a estetyką“ (The Birth of ‘Art’ and ‘Artist’ – Between Lexis and Aesthetics), In Beata Kubiak Ho-Chi, ed. Japonia okresu Meiji. Od tradycji ku nowoczesności (Japan During the Meiji period. From Tradition to Modernity), Warszawa: Nozomi, 2006.

Teaching

Teaching encompassing the following subjects: art and visual culture of Japan across genres and periods; Edo popular culture; poetry pictorialization; nativism; Orientalism; gender etc.

Courses taught:
“Art and Gender in Japan”
“Art and the City in Early Modern and Modern Japan”
“Art and Visual Studies of Japan”
 “Introduction to Japan’s Art”

Grants & Awards

- College Women's Association of Japan 60th Anniversary Scholar Grant 2009 (2009-2011)
-  The 2006 Year Mitsubishi Foundation Research Grant in Humanities (2006/2007)
- The 2006 Grant Offered by The Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies (2006/2007)
- CWAJ-Tokyo American Club Women’s Group Non-Japanese Graduate Scholarship in Honor of the 50th CWAJ Print Show (2006/2007)
- The 20^th (2003) Grant Offered for Researchers on Ukiyo-e, Ukiyo-e Ota Memorial Museum of Art (2004/2005)
- Scholarship for the Researchers of Traditional Japanese Culture, Japan Arts Foundation (2003/2004)
- Scholarship offered by the Japanese Ministry of Education (2002-2006)
- Toshiba International Foundation Scholarship for Japanese Studies Graduate (2002)