Valerie Zinner's research focuses on early modern Japanese illustrated narratives. She earned an honors B.A. in Art History and English Literature from the Macaulay Honors College (CUNY), and M.A. in Regional Studies East Asia from Harvard University. Valerie has also pursued the study of Japanese cursive writing (kuzushiji), participating in multiple translation workshops at Cambridge University and the University of Pennsylvania. She has received fellowships and grants from the Macaulay Honors College, Nippon Zaidan, and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. She recently was awarded a Fulbright grant, and is currently a visiting researcher at Tokyo University while she completes her dissertation fieldwork on the Sumiyoshi School of painters.
