Dissertation Title: Opening the ‘House Altarpiece’: Domestic and Traveling Triptychs in Northern Europe, 1400–1600

Advisor: Wolfthal, Diane B.

Zhejiang University, China, BA, Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language

University of Alabama, Birmingham, MA, Art History

Ruoxin Wang studies late medieval and early modern European art. Her research interests include art and ritual, gender and sexuality, cultural exchange, and viewer response. Focusing on small-scale triptychs, her dissertation project explores the perception of altar and altarpiece and their function in late medieval lay devotion. Ruoxin worked as a curatorial intern in Museo Nacional del Prado. Before coming to Rice, she finished a curatorial fellowship at the Birmingham Museum of Art.

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