Ching-Jung Chen
Digital Scholarship Librarian
Main Affiliation
Library
Building
North Academic Center
Office
5/332B
Phone
212-650-5369

Ching-Jung Chen
Education
Ph.D., Art History, Rutgers University, 2001
M.A., Art History and Criticism, Stony Brook University, 1992
M.L.S., Columbia University, 1988
B.A., Philosophy, National Taiwan University, 1986
Courses Taught
FIQWS: Painted Portraits: Facts and Fiction
Art100: Introduction to the Visual Arts of the World
Research Interests
The English conversation piece
Art Librarianship
Digital Collections
Atayal textiles
Publications
“Portraying Politeness: The Early Georgian Conversation Piece and Its Patrons,” Visual Resources 27/3 (2011): 203-226
(With Amrita Dhawan) “Online instruction for Art History Research,” Academic Exchange Quarterly 15/4 (Winter 2011): 77-82.
“From Genre to Portrait: the Etymology of the ‘Conversation Piece’,” British Art Journal 13/2 (Autumn 2012): 82-85.
(With Amrita Dhawan) “Library Instruction for First Year Students,” Reference Services Review 42/3 (Autumn 2014): 414-432.
“Library Resources in Art History,” in Teaching Non-traditional Learners: Tools for Creative Instruction, Helene E. Gold ed., Pittsburgh: Library Instruction Publications, 2010, 101-110.
“Great Websites for Art History,” Collection Building 28/4 (2009): 155-158.
“Art History: a Guide to Basic Research Resources,” Collection Building 28 (Summer 2009): 122-125.
“The Tea Party in Early Georgian Conversation Pieces,” British Art Journal 10 (Spring 2009): 30-39.
“Analog to Digital: Conversion of the Image Libraries at the City College of New York,” Art Documentation 28 (Spring 2009): 36-39
(with Sydney Van Nort) “Image Collections at the City College of New York: Collaborative Efforts at a Public Urban College Campus,” VRA Bulletin 35 (Summer 2008)
Presentations
"Portraying Politeness: Patronage of the Early Georgian Conversation Piece," Conference presentation, 7 November 2008, 2008 East Central/American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference at Georgetown University
“The Wentworths: A Story of Two Conversation Pieces,” 2013 Northeast Conference on British Studies, Storrs, Connecticut, 4-5 October 2013