Kevin Carr Assistant Professor U of M Affiliation(s) Department of Asian Languages and Cultures Department of History of Art Center for Japanese Studies PhD Princeton University

Kevin Carr teaches all aspects of the history of Japanese art and archaeology, but his research focuses on the visual cultural of popular religious cults of medieval Japan (especially 13th-15th centuries). His work engages issues of visual narrative, hagiography, and the construction of history and national consciousness through art. He has also worked on cultural exchanges between Japan and Europe in the 17th century and the 19th century. His current project surveys the artistic traditions of large-scale narrative painting in medieval Japan.

“Vernacular Developments in Painting and Sculpture,” from Morse, Samuel, Thomas Rimer, and Gene Phillips, eds. Arts of Japan: Early Japan, Cambridge UP/University of Hawai’i, Forthcoming.

(with Matsuo, Kenji) Explaining the “Mystery” of Ban Dainagon ekotoba. Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 28 (1-2), 2001: 103-131.

“Chûsei ni okeru Shôtoku Taishi shari shinkô no seiritsu--Toku ni Taishi-byô tôkutsu jiken wo keiki toshite--.” In Hino Shôshô hakase shôshu ki'nen ronshû, ed. Shôshô Hino. Kyôto: Jishô-sha, 2000.