Ruolin Gong

Ruolin Gong studies early to medieval East Asian art, with a particular focus on Chinese and Korean material culture, dress, and interregional exchange. Her research centers on intermediality as evidence of contact, transmission, and reinvention, tracing the circulation, revaluation, and transformation of materials, techniques, and motifs across regions. She is especially interested in dress and adornment as performative technologies through which identity, taste, and transcultural exchange are made visible. More broadly, her work engages the material, visual, and textual cultures of China, Inner Asia, and the Korean Peninsula from the third century BCE to the tenth century CE.

She received her MA in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at University of Pennsylvania and her BA in East Asian Languages and Cultures and Art History, with a Translation Studies Concentration from Smith College.