| My research interest lies in the interrelationship between art and politics in 20th century Japan. I am investigating how artists in various political standings and social statuses responded to the state’s increased interventions and a series of political shifts occurring during the 1930s and 40s; and the processes in which artists and the state powers (the Japanese military-oriented government and later the American-led occupational forces) came to form an inter-dependent relationship. My research also includes the post-occupation period, investigating ways in which wartime art works have been treated in a museum context and academic/popular discourses, and how Japan’s “traumatic” war has been visualized in contemporary art works. |
Ph.D., World Art Studies and Museology
University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK) and Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures |
M.A., World Art Studies and Museology, University of East Anglia |
B.A., Art Studies, Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo |
| Assistant Professor, University of Kansas |
| Visiting Assistant Professor, Art History Department, Northwestern University |
“Kanten kaikaku no yume: Kigen nisen roppyakunen hōshuku bijutsu tenrankai, sensō, ‘shintaisei’ [Dreams for a National Art Salon Reform: The 2600 Kigen Anniversary Art Exhibition, War and ‘New Order’],” Kindai Gasetsu [Modern Painting Theory] no. 16 (December 2007)
“New Art Collectives in the Service of the War: The Formation of Art Organizations During the Asia-Pacific War, 1937-1945,” Positions: East Asian Cultural Critiques (Duke University, forthcoming)
Contributed essays in Hariu Ichirō and Kawata Akihisa (eds). Bijutsu to Sensō [Art and War] (Tokyo: Kokusho Kankōkai, 2007)
Translation of “Portraying the War Dead: Photography as a Medium for Memorial Portraiture” by Kinoshita Naoyuki, in Nicole Rousmaniere and Mikiko Hirayama (eds.), Reflecting Truth: Japanese Photography in the Nineteenth Century (Amsterdam: Hotei, 2004), pp.86-97 |
| New Faculty General Research Fund from the University of Kansas |
| “Art and the State: Government-Sponsored Art Exhibitions and Art Politics in War-Time Japan”, Chino Kaori Memorial Essay Prize (Japan Art History Forum) |
| Hyūga Postgraduate Studentship from the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures |
HA 305/HA 505: Modern and Contemporary Art of Japan
HA 503: The World of Japanese Prints
HA 505: Representing the Nation/Represented by the Nation
HA 589: Japanese Artistic Encounters with Europe and the United States
HA 788/990: War and the Empire in 20th-century Japanese Visual Culture
HA 788/990: Japanese Popular Culture and Art |
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS |
College Art Association
Association of Asian Studies
Japan Art History Forum
Meiji Bijutsu Gakkai [Meiji Art Society] |
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