Ruiying Gao
Assistant Professor of Art History, Wake Forest University
Fellow 2025–26
- Current Project
- Collating Nature: Illustrated Bencao Books in Ming China
- Project Discipline
- History of Art and Architecture
- Fellowship Title
- Geiss Hsu Fellowship
About Fellow
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.