Mei Hsin
Chen Huang

Mei-Hsin Chen obtained her Ph.D. in Art History in 1997 from the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain. She subsequently engaged in a post-doctoral fellowship at the Department of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education of Taiwan, funded by the National Science Council of Taiwan. This initiative contributed to the advancement and enhancement of humanistic education at Taiwanese universities. From 2001 to 2008, she held faculty and research staff positions at Taipei National University of the Arts (Taipei, Taiwan) and the College of Design of Shih-Chien University (Taipei, Taiwan), where she served as assistant professor and associate professor, respectively. In 2008, she joined the University of Navarra, where she assumed a dual role encompassing both teaching responsibilities and the direction of international mobility for the ISSA School of Applied Management, a position she held from 2008 to 2014.Concurrently, she engaged in numerous European educational innovation projects funded by the European Commission, collaborating with various European institutions.Her international engagement also extended to her role as a visiting professor at several European university centers, within the framework of the LLP/Erasmus and Erasmus+ programs. She has taught subjects related to visual culture, art theory, aesthetics, craftsmanship and intercultural communication in different schools of the University of Navarra, including the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, the School of Architecture and the ISSA School of Applied Management. Her research interests include art history and theory, aesthetics/aisthesis, visual culture and design, and their relation to interculturality, multidisciplinarity, social change, sustainability and, more recently, artificial intelligence. She has published numerous journal articles, books and book chapters, and has contributed to national and international conferences in her areas of expertise. She has also collaborated in two research projects funded by the University of Navarra, focusing on Antoni Tàpies and art as a tool for social transformation. Part of its scientific production has contributed to the enforcement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She has also been involved in the international cooperation of the Museum of the University of Navarra (MUN) since its creation, establishing links with other university museums, especially in Europe. The MUN aims to be a bridge between the cultural and creative life of the region of Navarra, Spain and the rest of the world, and university life, with its focus on research and teaching. Its "Tender Puentes" Artist Residency and Performing Arts and Music programs encourage creation and research, with a special emphasis on ongoing dialogue with the works in the MUN's collection. The artistic and academic communities benefit from the opportunity to collaborate on research and creative projects. She is a member of various national and international associations and networks dedicated to art and aesthetics. Since 2017, she is part of the research group "Aesthetics and Contemporary Art" of the University of Navarra and of the editorial board/committee of several international indexed journals.