Bryce Heatherly

I write broadly about the history and theory of art and architecture in China and Korea from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries. Within this field, my research asks questions about the technical and conceptual aspects of art making, focusing especially on their intersections with Buddhism. My dissertation is a study of multi-story pagodas during the tenth and eleventh centuries in southeastern China, which examines the roles that the region's practices of building pagodas played in generating understandings of time and history. In addition to my dissertation, my interests include metalwork, the illuminated book, and the historiography of sculpture in China.