Pamela D. Winfield is Professor of Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Elon University in NC. She is the author of Icons and Iconoclasm in Japanese Buddhism: Kūkai and Dōgen on the Art of Enlightenment (Oxford University Press, 2013) which won the AAS-SEC Book Prize in 2015. She is also the co-editor (with Steven Heine) of Zen and Material Culture (Oxford University Press, 2017) and The Religious Body Imagined (Equinox Press, forthcoming). Her research has been supported by grants from the American Academy of Religion, the Association for Asian Studies, and the Asia Cultural Council among others, and her scholarship on the visual, material, and embodied dimensions of Japanese Buddhism has appeared in The Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, Studies in Chinese Religions, Material Religion, and other edited volumes with Oxford University Press, Columbia University Press, Brill, Routledge, Shambhala, Springer, and others.  She loves the beach, family dinners, travel, and learning from others.