Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen

Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen is a researcher on the project BIO&IMAGO. Biodiversity, Image-diversity, and Techno-diversity in early modern Europe and an early modern historian of plants and their visual and material culture. Her plant-based research interests intersect the history of art, the history of science and technology, the history of the book, and the history of knowledge.

Chen has recently obtained her doctoral degree from the Art History Department at Utrecht University. Her PhD project investigated the forms of knowledge and the making of seventeenth-century florilegia. The research was funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and received the 2020 Stacy Lloyd III Fellowship for Bibliographic Study from the Oak Spring Garden Foundation in the USA. Additionally, Chen has published on the woodblock making and printing of botanical woodcuts at the early modern Plantin Press in Antwerp.

For more information on her academic profile and research, please visit her Personal Website.