Chia-hua    YEH
Name Chia-hua YEH
Academic Position Associate Professor
Research Interests Arts in Europe (1500-1800), Material and Visual Cultures of Fashion, Portraiture (Early Modern Europe)
Email
Office Tel No. 02-2826-7000 ext.67206
Academic Qualifications (學歷)
  • PhD in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies,  Queen Mary, University of London, UK
  • MA in History of Art, University of Nottingham, UK
  • MA in Art Studies, National Central University, Taiwan

 Working Experiences (經歷)
  • 2022.8-          Associate Professor, Institute of Visual Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
  • 2021-2022     Assistant Professor, Institute of Visual Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
  • 2014-2021  Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute for Studies in Visual Cultures, National Yang-Ming University  

 
Honours & Awards (榮譽與獎勵)
  • 2023            Outstanding Research Journal Article , National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University      
  • 2022          Outstanding Research Journal Article  , National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
  • 2017   Award  of Teaching Excellency, School of Humanities and Social Science,  National Yang-Ming University  
  • 2016   Award  of Teaching Excellency for General Education, School of Humanities and Social Science,  National Yang-Ming University 
  • 2014-2017    Grant for Outstanding Newly-Recruited Scholar, National Yang-ming University/Ministry of Science and Technology ( for three years)
  • 2008         Dissertation Fellowship, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
  • 2004-2007  Overseas Research Students Award, British Government

 
Journal Articles (期刊論文)​
  • 2023     'Glory and Power: Pattern Design of the Medici Pomegranate and its Connotation in Sixteenth-Century Florence ,'Journal of Design , Vol. 28, Issue1 (2023.03), pp. 49-72. (in Chinese; THCI,  Class "1" journal in the filed of  Art and Design Studies )
  • 2022    'Documenting and Redefining Turkish-Style Dresses and Their Archival Records in the Florentine Courts, 1600-1640,' Humanitas Taiwanica, vol.98 (2022.11) pp.163-226. ( in Chinese; THCI, Class "1" journal in the field of  Interdiciplinary Studies  )
  • 2019 ‘A New Queen and Her Spanish Gown: The Depiction of Clothing and its Connotations in the Painting The Wedding of Maria de'Medici and Henry IV by Jacopo Chimenti da Empoli (1600),' Journal of Art Studies, Vol. 24 (2019.06), pp. 1-79. ( in Chinese; THCI, Class "1" journal in the filed of  Art and Design Studies )
  • 2013    ‘The Key of Green; Dressing Up; Ornamentalism’ (review article), Fashion Theory, Vol. 17, Issue 4, 2013, pp. 489-495. (A&HCI)
  • 2013    ‘From Classical to Chic: Reconsidering the Prints from Varie acconciature di teste usate da nobilissime dome in diverse città d’Italia by Giovanni Guerra, c.1589’, Konsthistorisk tidskrift /Journal of Art History, Vol.82, Issue 3, 2013, pp. 157-168.(A&HCI; The European Reference Index for the Humanities- Class "A" journal in the field of Art, Architectural and Design History )

Monographs & Book Chapters (專書與專書論文
  • Chia-hua Yeh, ‘The Material Culture of Head Coverings in Early Modern Florence ’, in Il velo in area mediterranea fra storia e simbolo, ed. by Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli, Maria Grazia Nico Ottaviani, Gabriella Zarri ( Bologna: Il Mulino, 2014), pp. 139-154.
  • Chia-hua Yeh, Hats, Headwear and Hair Accessories in the Early Modern Florentine Court, 1580-1630, Ph D thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2011.


 
Conference Papers (研討會論文)(2015-2020)
  •  24 October, 2022 'The Sartorial Politics of Florentine Court in the Regency Period, 1620-1630 '.The 16th International Conference of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies , Taipei.
  • 6 April, 2018  ‘Dowager Duchesses and Their Textile Merchant: Fashion and Fashion Networks in the Florentine Court, 1620-1640’,in the Meeting ‘Fashion Studies: A International Perspective’, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney.
  • 24 October, 2017 ‘Imaginary Space for Beauty Ritual: Fresco Painting, Women on Terrasse, by Alessandro Allori' .The 10th International Conference of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tainan.
  • 12 November, 2016 “假扮與想像:義大利佛羅倫斯宮廷中土耳其織品與服裝, 1580-1610”,  第12屆文化交流史:庶民生活與物質文明國際學術研討會,台北。
  • 3 July 2015  ‘Silk, Leather and Straw: Hats in Early Modern Florence’, in Fashion: 84th Anglo-American Conference of Historians, Institute of Historical Research, University of London. London. 
MOST Research Project (Governmental Grant)
  • 2022-2024   Double Portraits Of Mother and Son in Florentine Courts
  • 2021-2022   A study on the Figures of the Ottoman Empire by Jacopo Ligozzi 
  • 2019-2020   The Cameo ‘Cosimo I de’Medici and his Family’( c.1562) by Giovanni Antonio de' Rossi and Its Pictorial Interpretation
  • 2016-2018   Dowager Duchesses and Their Textile Merchant: Fashion and Fashion Networks in the Florentine Court, 1620-1640
  • 2016-2017   Library Collection : Visual Representations and Body in Early Modern Europe (2.6 Million ) 
  • 2013-2016    'From Sign of Heath to Sign of 'La Moda' : Hair Fashion in Italy, 1500-1650  

Other Grants (其他計劃)
  • 2010-2013, Fashioning the Early Modern Europe: Creativity and Innoivation in Europe, 1500-1800 (Funded by HERA, International project, based in Queen Mary, University of London and Victoria & Albert Museum.
  • 2007-2009, Early Modern Dress and Textile Network (Funded by AHRC, based in Queen Mary, University of London and Victoria & Albert Museum, UK)


 
Courses Taught (教授課程)
I. General Education (Core Course): 
 1. The Renaissance
 2. History of European Fashion
 3. Clothes, Clothing and Fashion
    4. The World of Leonardo da Vinci 
II. General Education (Liberal Arts): 
 1. The Golden Age of European Arts, 1500-1700
    2. Fashion for Mature Adulthood
III.  Postgraduate Education (MA program)

 1. Fashion Politics 
 2. Print and Fashion Culture
 3. History of Western Dress 
    4. Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe
    5.  Portraits and Image Making in Early Modern Europe 
 6. Exchange of Visual Culture between the East and West, 1500-1900 (co-convened with Kuei-yin Haung)



Theses Supervised (論文指導)

1. 2016     Liang-Kai Yu, Picturing Bath: Sebald Beham’s Fountain of Youth-Bathhouse Woodcut and Its Image Transfer in Sixteenth Century Germany, MA thesis .
2. 2018    Tang, Ling-Jhen, Visual Communication and Cultural Signification of Boy's Sensōgara Kimono, 1920-1940, MA thesis .
3. 2019    Chia-Wei Yang , YÙNDÒNG:Dress of Male Politicians for Election Campaigns in Taiwan. MA thesis .ˋ
4. 2020    Chang-ling Hsu, A Microscopic Worldview of Corporeal Permeability and Neo Culture Technology: Bodily and Medial Crossings in K-Pop Music Videos, MA thesis.  

5. 2023     Peng Wang , Raising a Good Girl: A Study on the Paper Doll Feature in McCall’s Magazine in the United States in the 1950s,  MA thesis.