Dr Yusen Yu

Lecturer in Iranian Islamic Art History

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3592

Email

yy68@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Biography

I came to St Andrews in 2021. Prior to that, I was a Junior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. I studied History, Persian Studies, and Islamic Art History in China, Iran, and the UK, and completed my PhD at Heidelberg University, Germany.

Research areas

My primary field of research is early and medieval Islamic art and architecture. This includes its reception of foreign, especially Chinese, objects. Another strong interest is the history of science in medieval Islam. 

More broadly, I am interested in comparative approaches in medieval studies. 

Selected publications

• Shaykhi’s moth: small creatures in fifteenth-century Persian painting

  Yu, Y., 25 Jul 2023, The environment and ecology in Islamic art and culture. Dalal, R., Roberts, S. & Sokoly, J. (eds.). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, (Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa symposium on Islamic art).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Gold-Sprinkled: Chinese Paper and Persian Book Arts during the Fifteenth Century

  Yu, Y., Nov 2021, The Allure of Matter: Materiality Across Chinese Art. University of Chicago Press, p. 92-113

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Representing Ming China in Fifteenth Century Persianate Painting

  Yu, Y., 2018, In: Ming Studies. 2018, 78, p. 57-73

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• From the Picture Gallery of China: A Glimpse into the Persianate Collecting of Chinese Religious Painting in the Late 14th to 15th Centuries

  Yu, Y., 2017, In: Aziatische Kunst: Uitgave van de Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst. 47, 2, p. 13-20

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The Arab Empire in Chinese Sources from the 8th Century to the 10th Century

  Yu, Y., 2012, Arabia, Greece and Byzantium: Cultural Contacts in Ancient and Medieval Times. A. A-H., D. G. L., M. A-M. & A. A-A. (eds.). King Saud University, p. 311-312

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

 

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