Tomoko Sakomura is Professor of Art History and Dean of Students at Swarthmore College. Her scholarship explores the relationships between text and image in Japanese art and design. She is the author of Poetry as Image: The Visual Culture of Waka in Sixteenth-Century Japan (Brill, 2016). Sakomura holds a BA in Art History from Keio University, Tokyo, and an MA and PhD in Art History and Archaeology from Columbia University in the City of New York.