Mark Pitner

Adjunct Instructor

MPitner@Cornish.edu

Mark Pitner received his B.A. in History and the Classics from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, his M.A. from the University of Washington in Asian Languages and Literature and is completing a Ph.D. at the University of Washington in Chinese Language and Literature. Mark has lived in China, Taiwan, and Japan, most recently as a Fulbright Fellow in Taiwan (2008-2009). He has also spent numerous years working with the East Asian art collection at the Seattle Asian Art Museum as a Blakemore Curatorial Fellow (2004-2008). His research and teaching explores the relationship between literary and material culture; between religion and science; between geography and self as diversely expressed in Chinese cultural history. He has written on early developments in Ruism (Confucianism), the history of biology in China, and is currently working on a number of projects that explore the role of place in the intellectual history of China.