Ruiying Gao (NHC Fellow, 2025–26)
Project Title
Collating Nature: Illustrated Bencao Books in Ming China
Geiss Hsu Fellowship, 2025–26
Assistant Professor of Art History, Wake Forest University
Ruiying Gao teaches East Asian art at Wake Forest University. Her research fields include the intersections of natural history and the pictorial arts, book culture, and the work of women artists. Her current project examines the social history of materia medica images in China during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644).
Selected Publications
- Gao, Ruiying. “Creating through Copying: Materia Medica, Women Painters, and Late Ming Culture.” Ming Qing Yanjiu 27, no. 2 (2024): 107–54.