Yun-chen Lu (Ph.D., UCSB) is an Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture at DePaul University. She specializes in East Asian art history, particularly Chinese painting and calligraphy, material culture, literati culture, artists with disabilities, disability aesthetics, and East Asian interregional art history. Many of her courses are cross-listed with Global Asian Studies, including Introduction to Asian Art, Buddhist Art, Chinese Art, Japanese Art, and Illness and Disability in Chinese Art. Her current book project, Disability Art and Aesthetics in Eighteenth-Century Yangzhou, investigates the relationship between artists with disabilities and the trend of artistic eccentricity in eighteenth-century Yangzhou, and the development of disability art and aesthetics in Chinese art. She was awarded a 2023 Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Early Career Fellowship and 2023-2025 DePaul Humanities Center Fellowship for this project. Before joining DePaul, she was a predoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art.