Kayoko Ichikawa

KAYOKO ICHIKAWA is Senior Assistant Professor of English in the Faculty of Business and Commerce at Keio University, Japan. She was JSPS Overseas Research Fellow (2019-2022) in the Department of Medieval Art History at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). Previously she was funded by the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship (2017-2018). She took her BA and MA in Philosophy (Aesthetics) at Keio University in Tokyo and received her PhD in History of Art at the University of Warwick (2016). Before moving to Warwick, she studied at the University of Siena for a year funded by the Italian State Studentship. Her doctoral thesis examined the formation of Marian civic identity in Sienese art in the later thirteenth century focusing on the reconstructed altarpiece for the cathedral high altar attributed to Guido da Siena. Her broader research interest is the historical and intellectual context of the development of narrative cycles in Italian art in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries with a special focus on the interaction between Italy, Northern Europe, and the Mediterranean East. She has taught as an Associate Tutor in the History of Art Department at the University of Warwick and lectured part-time on altarpiece studies at Keio University. As Project Manager at Keio University Art Center in Tokyo, she has co-organized events and workshops for the "Cultural Narrative of a City" project (2018-2019).
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Michele Bacci and Prof. Louise Bourdua