Visual Culture

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John Christopher (Chris) Hamm
Professor
Justin Jesty
Associate Professor
Ungsan Kim
Assistant Professor
Korean Program Coordinator

Latest News

New Publication: Professor Justin Jesty's Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan (October 8, 2018)
Unwrapping Korean American Identities (November 13, 2014)

Related Research

Atkins, Paul. "What is the Japanese 'wabi-sabi' aesthetic actually about? 'Miserable tea' and loneliness, for starters." The Conversation, March 12, 2024.
Pauwels, H. 2023b. Mīrā’s Iconography: From Miniature to Movie. In: Karen Pechilis and Amy-Ruth Holt, eds. Devotional Visualities: Seeing Bhakti in Indic Material Cultures. 285–309. London: Bloomsbury Academic 2023
Nazry Bahrawi, Joanne Leow and Y-Dang Troeung, eds. Shorelines: Southeast Asia and the Littoral, special issue of Wasafiri, Issue 116, Winter 2023.
Kim, Ungsan. “Cruising the Art Museum: On the Migration of Queer Experimental Cinema in South Korea,” JCMS 62.3 (Spring 2023): 191–196.
Cho, Heekyoung. 2021. “The Platformization of Culture: Webtoon Platforms and Media Ecology in Korea and Beyond.” The Journal of Asian Studies 80, no. 1 (February): 73-93.
Cho, Heekyoung. 2016. “The Webtoon: A New Form for Graphic Narrative”The Comics Journal, (July 18), 6,915 words. (http://www.tcj.com/the-webtoon-a-new-form-for-graphic-narrative/)
Lowy, Christopher. "Nihongo no ākitekucha: kakikotoba no kōchiku tekusuto-sei o megutte." (Towards an Architecture of Text: On the Architexture of Written Japanese). Symphoniker, ed. Nagase Kai. Tokyo: Symphoniker 1.1, 2013. pg. 3-19.
Lowy, Christopher. “Chōheimen-ka shita nihongo de no komyunikēshon ni tsuite: tojikomoru nihon no hihyō.” (On Communication In a Hyperflattend Japanese Language: Japanese Criticisim and Introversion). genron etc., ed. Azuma Hiroki. Tokyo: genron 2.4, 2012. pg. 83-95.
Justin Jesty. "Tokyo 1960: Days of Rage and Grief Hamaya Hiroshi’s Photos of the Anti-Security-Treaty Protests." Visualizing Cultures. MIT: 2012.
Justin Jesty. "Arts of Engagement: Art and Social Movements in Japan’s Early Postwar." Ph.D. Thesis. University of Chicago, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, 2010.