Mariachiara Gasparini is an Assistant Professor of Chinese Art and Architectural History at the University of Oregon. She studied Oriental Languages and Civilization at the University of Oriental Studies in Naples, earned an M.A. in East Asian Art History from Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London, and received her Ph.D. in Transcultural Studies: Global Art History from Ruprecht Karl University in Heidelberg. Gasparini's interests include historical, theoretical, and visual investigation of the history of Eurasian art and culture. Her research focuses on Chinese and Central Asian textiles, material culture, wall painting, artist’s praxis, and Sino-Iranian and Turko-Mongol interactions. She is the author of Transcending Patterns: Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textiles (University of Hawai’i Press, 2019), and, of Chapter 6: “Beyond Space and Time: Sino-Iranian Textiles and the Creation of Eurasian Religious Material and Visual Cultures of Power and Sanctity,” in Persian Cultures of Power and the Entanglement of the Afro-Eurasian World (Getty Research Institute Publications, 2024). Gasparini is a recipient of the Henry Luce Foundation China Studies Early Career Fellowship 21-22.
Mariachiara Gasparini est invitée par l'assemblée du Collège de France, sur proposition du Pr Frantz Grenet.
