Dr. Brenda Jordan

• Director, National Coordinating Site for the National Consortium for Teaching About Asia (NCTA)

• Japan Studies Coordinator

• Adjunct Associate Professor, History of Arts & Architecture
  

Contact Information

Office: 4107 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Phone: 412-648-7763
Email: jordanb@pitt.edu

Biography

Brenda G. Jordan received her PhD from the University of Kansas in Japanese art history. She teaches for the Departments of East Asian Languages and Literatures and History of Art and Architecture. Her research interests are early modern and modern Japanese art history, specifically issues of the dynamics of modernization and modernity in Japan.

Jordan is the Director of the National Coordinating Site for the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. She also serves as the program manager for the Japanese internship program, as part of her duties as Japan studies coordinator.

She is an avid gardener in her spare time, and enjoys traveling and hanging out with her husband and daughter Erika.

Updated June 4, 2013