CURRICULUM VITAE

                       Janet L. Carpenter

EDUCATION

Ph.D.   University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 1994

M. Phil.        University of Kansas, October 1984.  Major: Sung and
          Chin Dynasty Painting (Chinese).  Minors: Yuan Dynasty
          Painting (Chinese) and Muromachi Painting (Japanese)

M.A.    University of Kansas, May 1981. Master's degree general
     examination in Asian art history, September 1980 (honors)

B.A.    Wellesley College, June 1974.  Major: History of Art

SPECIAL TRAINING

Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies, Taipei. 
September 1981-June 1983

FELLOWSHIPS

Art History Department Kress Fellowship in Asian Art, 1991-1992

Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellowship in Art History, 1986-1987

U.S. Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research
Abroad Fellowship, 1985-1986

Asian Cultural Council Fellowship, 1985

Smithsonian Institution Fellowship, 1985

Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, 1979-1981

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

San Jose State University, San Jose, California
Instructor, Spring 1997-present.  Asian Art; Art Appreciation; India and Southeast Asia.

City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Instructor, Fall, 1995-present.  Asian Art; Western Art; Modern
Art.

College of Marin, Kentfield, California
Instructor, Spring 1996.  Asian Art.

Cabrillo College, Aptos, California
Instructor, Fall 1995.  Art of India and Southeast Asia.

Assistant to Instructor, National Endowment for the Humanities
Summer Institute on Modern Chinese Art and Culture, University of
Kansas, Summer 1991.

Instructor, School of Professional and Graduate Studies, Masters
in Liberal Arts Program, Baker University, Overland Park, Kansas,
Fall 1990.  Arts of China.

Assistant Instructor, History of Art, University of Kansas, Fall
1990. Art and Culture of China.

Assistant Curator of Oriental Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,
Kansas City, Missouri, January 1988-October 1990.  
Assistant Instructor, History of Art, University of Kansas,
Summer 1985. Introduction to Oriental Art: India, China, and
Japan.

Assistant Curator of Oriental Art, Spencer Museum of Art,
University of Kansas, 1984-1985.

PUBLICATIONS

"Traveling among Streams and Mountains and Chin Period Landscape
Painting," Ph.D. diss., University of Kansas, 1994.

"American Social Realist Thomas Hart Benton," in Shijie meishu
(World Art) 1990/4: 25-29 (Chinese).

Assistant editor, Artists and Patrons: Some Social and Economic
Aspects of Chinese Painting (Seattle: University of Washington
Press, 1989).

Catalogue entries in Japanese Quest for a New Vision: The Impact
of Visiting Chinese Painters, 1600-1900, ed. Stephen Addiss
(Lawrence, Ks.: Spencer Museum of Art, 1986).

"Sennin: The Immortals of Taoism," Japanese Ghosts and Demons:
Art of the Supernatural (New York: George Braziller, 1985).

"Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting" (review article),
Orientations, May 1981.

"Chinese and Japanese Textiles," Catalogue of the Oriental
Collections (Lawrence, Ks.: Spencer Museum of Art, 1981).

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

"Prints by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)," June 16-August 5,
1990

"From Behind the Fan: Sources of Japonisme," April 28-June 10,
1990

SELECTED LECTURES

"The Art of the Muromachi and Momoyama Periods (Japan)," Art
Department, San Jose State University, November 30, 1992

Japonisme: The Influence of Japanese Prints on Impressionist and
Post-Impressionist Painting," Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, May
1990

"History of Chinese Porcelain," Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,
April 28, 1990

"Chinese Bronzes" and "Chinese Painting," Chinese Art Training
for Docents, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, January 1990