Associate Professor Contact Information jestyj@uw.edu DEN 343 Office Hours No office hours SU24 Fields of Interest Art History Film/Cinema Japanese Literature Visual Culture Biography Curriculum Vitae (113.05 KB) Research Selected Research Jesty, Justin. Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan. Cornell University Press, 2018 “The realism debate and the politics of modern art in early postwar Japan.” Japan Forum 26, no. 4 (2014), 508-529. 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. "Making Mercury Visible: the Minamata documentaries of Tsuchimoto Noriaki." Mercury Pollution: A Transdisciplinary Treatment. Taylor and Francis: 2011. 139-160. 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. Justin Jesty. "Hokkaidō tankō rōdōsha no kyōdō seisaku: 1950-nen no ‘Jinmin saiban kirokuga’ o megutte." (Collaborative production among Hokkaidō mine workers: the case of the 1950 ‘Pictorial record of the people’s court incident’). Bunka shigen toshite no tankō-ten (The coal mine as cultural resource exhibition). Meguro Museum of Art: 2009. 128-139. Justin Jesty, with Tokunaga Keita. "Senda Umeji-ron (On Senda Umeji)." Bunka shigen toshite no tankō-ten (The coal mine as cultural resource exhibition). Meguro Museum of Art: 2009. 10-27. Justin Jesty. "Hanga to hanga undō (Woodcut and the woodcut movement)." Gendai Shisō (Contemporary Thought) 35.17 (2007): 152-161. Courses Taught Autumn 2024JAPAN 325 A: Introduction to Japanese Cinema and MediaSpring 2024JAPAN 361 A: Topics in Japanese Cinema and MediaWinter 2024JAPAN 591 A: Seminar in Japanese Cinema and MediaAutumn 2023JAPAN 325 A: Introduction to Japanese Cinema and MediaJAPAN 433 A: Contemporary Japanese-English TranslationSpring 2023JAPAN 433 A: Readings in Modern Japanese LiteratureWinter 2023JAPAN 322 A: Modern Japanese LiteratureJAPAN 595 A: Seminar in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Art and SocietyAutumn 2022JAPAN 380 A: Contemporary Japanese Art and SocietySpring 2022JAPAN 361 A: Topics in Japanese Cinema and MediaJAPAN 433 A: Readings in Modern Japanese LiteratureWinter 2022JAPAN 591 A: Seminar in Japanese Cinema and MediaAutumn 2021JAPAN 325 A: Introduction to Japanese Cinema and MediaJAPAN 435 A: Seminar in Modern Japanese LiteratureSpring 2021JAPAN 360 A: Topics in Japanese CultureWinter 2021JAPAN 432 A: Readings in Modern Japanese LiteratureJAPAN 591 A: Seminar in Japanese Cinema and Media Affiliations Home Department Asian Languages & Literature Related News Related News Translation Studies Hub Colloquium To Feature AL&L Faculty (January 11, 2021) Students translate personal testimonies from survivors of the March 3, 2011 triple disaster in Sendai, Japan (August 21, 2020) Professor Justin Jesty Wins ASAP Book Award (October 31, 2019) New Publication: Professor Justin Jesty's Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan (October 8, 2018)
