Ph.D., Art History, Stanford University

M.A., Art History, University of California, Berkeley

B.A. (First Class Honours), Classical Chinese Studies, Durham University, UK

Marion Lee’s teaching and research are informed by the importance of materiality, engendered partly by working experience in museums. - Her current research interests include the consideration of issues relating to gender for the interpretive understanding of visual images in nineteenth-century China and the conceptualization of collecting practices as historiographic narratives.

- -Select Presentations and Publications:

Lee, Marion-. “The matrix of collecting: Fashioning identity in early nineteenth-century China,” - - College Art Association Annual Conference, Dallas, TX February 20-23, 2008

Lee, Marion. “Imagination, materiality and cultural renewal: ‘Elegant gathering (yaji)’ and literati gardens in late imperial China,” - international conference on Archaeology of Garden Imagination, co-sponsored by Dumbarton Oaks and the Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA, May 19-20, 2006

Lee, Marion and Thomas Beischer-. “Plasti(City) of Material and Meaning: Shirley Tse’s Forms of Identity,” Global Babel: Questions of Discourse and Communication in a Time of Globalization,- ed. - Samir Dayal and Margueritte Murphy. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007, -, pp. 298-313

Lee, Marion-. Essay in Gyöngy Laky: Intersections. San Francisco: Braunstein/Quay Gallery, 2007, , pp. 9-18

Lee, Marion -. “Pleasure and Pain,” Phoebus 9. Tempe: Arizona State University, Department of Art, 2006, pp. 143-165.

Courses Taught

Survey of non-Western art, Arts and culture of China, Visual culture of nineteenth-century China and Contemporary arts of Asia