Julie Nelson Davis is Professor of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches the arts of East Asia from 1600 to the present, with a focus on early modern Japan. She is one of the foremost experts on ukiyo-e, the pictures of the floating world. She has published extensively on the topic, including three books, Utamaro and Spectacle of Beauty (2007 & 2021), Partners in Print: Artistic Collaboration and the Ukiyo-e Market (2015), and Picturing the Floating World: Ukiyo-e in Context (2021). She has also guest-curated numerous exhibitions, most recently “Arthur Tress and the Japanese Illustrated Book” at the Kislak Center, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, in fall 2022.
