Nora A. Taylor is the Alsdorf Professor of South and Southeast Asia Art and Chair of the Department of Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of Art Institute of Chicago, United States. She is the author of Painters in Hanoi: An Ethnography of Vietnamese Art (University of Hawaii Press, 2004, and NUS Press, 2009) and co-editor of Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art: An Anthology (Cornell SEAP, 2012).