Kevin Carr

University of Michigan

2/5/2018-6/3/2018

Kevin Carr teaches at the University of Michigan, where he specializes in the history of Japanese medieval religious art.  His previous research focused on ritual uses of narrative art and the relationship between relic cults and hagiography.  His first book, Plotting the Prince, considers these issues in light of the practices centering on the medieval cult of the semi-legendary Prince Shotoku (c. 574-622).  While at the Clark, he is  working on a monograph entitled Topographies of the Sacred in Medieval Japan, which considers the creation of notions of sacred space through art recounting the miraculous origins of religious sites.