Justin Jesty

Associate Professor

Justin Jesty

Contact Information

DEN 343

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

Spring 2025

Winter 2025

JAPAN 433 A: Contemporary Japanese-English Translation

Autumn 2024

JAPAN 325 A: Introduction to Japanese Cinema and Media

Spring 2024

JAPAN 361 A: Topics in Japanese Cinema and Media

Winter 2024

JAPAN 591 A: Seminar in Japanese Cinema and Media

Autumn 2023

Spring 2023

JAPAN 433 A: Readings in Modern Japanese Literature

Winter 2023

Autumn 2022

JAPAN 380 A: Contemporary Japanese Art and Society

Spring 2022

Winter 2022

JAPAN 591 A: Seminar in Japanese Cinema and Media

Autumn 2021

Spring 2021

JAPAN 360 A: Topics in Japanese Culture

Winter 2021

Autumn 2020

Spring 2020

JAPAN 460 A: Advanced Studies in Japanese Literature

Winter 2020

Autumn 2019

Spring 2018

Winter 2018

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)

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