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Justin Jesty

Associate Professor

Contact Information

jestyj@uw.edu

206-221-9184

GWN M233

Office Hours: 

Tuesdays 1:00-2:00pm (Remote, email instructor for Zoom link)

Fields of Interest

JapaneseArt HistoryFilm/CinemaLiteratureVisual Culture

Biography

CV (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

Spring 2022

• JAPAN 433 A: Readings in Modern Japanese Literature

Winter 2022

• JAPAN 591 A: Seminar in Japanese Cinema and Media

Autumn 2021

• JAPAN 325 A: Introduction to Japanese Cinema and Media
• JAPAN 435 A: Seminar in Modern Japanese Literature

Spring 2021

• JAPAN 360 A: Topics in Japanese Culture

Winter 2021

• JAPAN 432 A: Readings in Modern Japanese Literature
• JAPAN 591 A: Seminar In Japanese Cinema And Media

Autumn 2020

• JAPAN 325 A: Introduction to Japanese Cinema and Media
• JAPAN 431 A: Readings in Modern Japanese Literature

Spring 2020

• JAPAN 460 A: Advanced Studies in Japanese Literature

Winter 2020

• JAPAN 322 A: Modern Japanese Literature
• JAPAN 380 A: Contemporary Japanese Art And Society

Autumn 2019

• JAPAN 431 A: Readings in Modern Japanese Literature
• JAPAN 595 A: Seminar in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Art and Society

Spring 2018

• ASIAN 207 B: Special Topics in Literature and Culture of Asia
• JAPAN 325 A: Introduction to Japanese Film

Winter 2018

• JAPAN 380 A: Modernism, Avant-Garde, Contemporary, And Pop Art And Culture In Japan
• JAPAN 432 A: Readings In Modern Japanese Literature

Autumn 2017

• JAPAN 591 A: Seminar In Japanese Film

Spring 2017

• JAPAN 433 A: Readings In Modern Japanese Literature
• JAPAN 591 A: Seminar In Japanese Film

Winter 2017

• JAPAN 322 A: Japanese Literature II
• JAPAN 590 A: Seminar In Japanese Literature

Spring 2016

• JAPAN 380 A: Modernism, Avant-Garde, Contemporary, And Pop Art And Culture In Japan - Course Website
• JAPAN 435 A: Seminar In Modern Japanese Literature - Course Website

Winter 2016

• ASIAN 207 B: Special Topics In Literature And Culture Of Asia - Course Website
• ASIAN 207 BA: Special Topics In Literature And Culture Of Asia
• ASIAN 207 BB: Special Topics In Literature And Culture Of Asia
• ASIAN 207 BC: Special Topics In Literature And Culture Of Asia
• JAPAN 432 A: Readings In Modern Japanese Literature - Course Website

Spring 2015

• JAPAN 433: Readings In Modern Japanese Literature
• JAPAN 591: Seminar In Japanese Film

Spring 2014

• JAPAN 433: Readings In Modern Japanese Literature

Winter 2014

• JAPAN 322: Japanese Literature II
• JAPAN 590: Seminar In Japanese Literature: Japanese Film

Autumn 2013

• JAPAN 360: Topics In Japanese Culture: Anime and Animation
• JAPAN 431: Readings In Modern Japanese Literature

Spring 2013

• JAPAN 360: Topics In Japanese Culture: History of Japanese Film

Winter 2013

• JAPAN 432: Readings In Modern Japanese Literature
• JAPAN 590: Seminar In Japanese Literature: Art and Politics in Modern Japan

Autumn 2012

• JAPAN 360: Topics In Japanese Culture: Japanese Avant-Garde and Contemporary Art Post-1945

Summer 2012 Full-term

• JAPAN 134: First-Year Intensive Japanese

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

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