Department of History of Art and Archaeology, School of Arts

Senior Teaching Fellow

Name:

Dr Elaine Buck

Email address:

eb37@soas.ac.uk

Telephone:

020 7898 4705

Address:

SOAS University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG

Building:

Brunei Gallery

Academic Support Hours:

Mondays 3-5 and by appointment

Biography

Elaine teaches the visual arts of ancient and medieval China and the steppe and silk roads. She has an MA and PhD from SOAS for a thesis entitled "The Eight Immortals on Yuan and Ming Ceramics". She has also taught at Birkbeck and The University of Edinburgh. She was appointed a council member of the Oriental Ceramics Society in 2014 and 2019.

Modules Taught

• Art and Archaeology of Medieval China
• Arts of China (Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art)
• China and the Silk Road: Art and Archaeology
• The Silk Road and its Origins: Art and Archaeology

Religious arts in China and cultural interaction on the steppe and silk roads.