Executive Committee

Noriko Aso, Assistant Professor, History, UC Santa Cruz
Gregory P. Levine, Associate Professor, Art History, UC Berkeley
Margherita Long, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature (Japanese)
William Marotti, Assistant Professor, History, UC Los Angeles
Bert Winther-Tamaki, Associate Professor, Art History & Visual Studies, UC Irvine

UC Davis

Kyu Kim, Associate Professor of History
Joseph Sorensen, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures

UC Berkeley

Junko Habu, Associate Professor of Anthropology (Archaeology)
Gregory P. Levine, Associate Professor of the History of Art
Daniel O’Neill, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures (Literature)
Miryam Sas, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature/ Film Studies
Alan Tansman, Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures (Literature)

Graduate Students:
Carl Gellert
Kristopher Kersey
Namiko Kunimoto is interested in modern and contemporary Japanese art history. Her dissertation focuses on Tanaka Atsuko and Shiraga Kazuo, both members of the Gutai Art Association.
Patrick Luhan
Paul Roquet is a Ph.D. Candidate working in Japanese literature, visual culture, and film studies. His current research focuses on the personal and public use of media as a technology of mood-regulation, from 1978 to the present.

UC Merced

ShiPu Wang, Assistant Professor of Soc. Sci, Humanities, and Arts (Art History)

UC Santa Cruz

Noriko Aso, Assistant Professor of History
Alan Christy, Associate Professor of History
Shelly Errington, Professor of Anthropology
Stacy L Kamehiro, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture (Oceania)

UC Santa Barbara

Sabine Fruhstuck, Professor of Modern Japanese Cultural Studies
Hyung Pai, Associate Professor of EALCS (History/Archaeology)
Luke Roberts, Associate Professor of History
Kate Saltzman-Li, Associate Professor of EALCS (Comp Lit/ Lit)
Miriam Wattles, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture

Graduate Students:
Julianne P. Gavino is a doctoral student in the Department of History of Art and Architecture. Her research interests include Post-WWII American Art, Public Art and Public Spaces, and Asian American visual culture.
Kirsten Ziomek

UC Los Angeles

Torquil Duthie, Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures (Literature)
Seiji Lippit, Associate Professor of ALC (Literature)
William Marotti, Assistant Professor of History
Michael Marra, Professor of Japanese Literature and Hermeneutics, ALC
Donald McCallum, Professor of Art History
Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei, Professor of Theatre

Graduate Students:
Nobuko Anan is a PhD candidate in the Department of Theater and Performance Studies. She is working on contemporary Japanese women's performance from the perspectives of gender/sexuality studies and pop culture studies.
Noriko Day is a graduate student in Asian Languages and Cultures. Her research interests lie in spatial representations of Hokkaido in modern Japanese literature and visual culture and how they have been affected by historical events.
Timothy Unverzagt Goddard, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, focuses on Japanese, Chinese, and Korean literature, thought, and Buddhism.
Jordan A. Yamaji Smith, Department of Comparative Literature (Doctoral Candidate). Research interests include contemporary Japanese literature in transnational context, cross-exoticism, translation/interpretation, Japanese comedy/humor, kimono, hip hop studies. Authors of special interest include Oe Kenzaburo, Kirino Natsuo, Suzuki Takayuki, and Takahashi Genichiro.

UC Riverside

John Kim, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature (German and Japanese)
Margherita Long, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature (Japanese)
Setsu Shigematsu, Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies
Annmaria Shimabuku, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature (Japanese)
James Tobias, Assistant Professor of English
Traise Yamamoto, Associate Professor of English

Graduate Students:
Paul Cheng is a Ph.D candidate in English. His areas of study include Asian American literature and film and his dissertation will explore the phenomenon of a “Transpacific Action Cinema,” tracing the movements of capital, populations, ideas and culture across the Pacific Rim and its complex relationship with visual culture.
Jane Correia is a doctoral candidate in the Comparative Literature Department. Her research interests include the socio-political situations in France and Japan in the second half of the 19th century as well as post WWII.
Claire (Dan-Ju)Yu

UC Irvine

Jonathan Hall, Assistant Professor of Comp. Lit./ Film & Media Studies
Susan B. Klein, Director of Religious Studies
Anne Walthall, Professor of History
Bert Winther-Tamaki, Associate Professor of Art History & Visual Studies

Graduate Students:
Michelle Cho
Kim Icreverci is is a graduate student in the Department of Comparative Literature. Her research focuses on Japanese body genre cinema with particular interests in erotics (after Audre Lorde), affect, and the politics and experience of spectatorship.
Yuka Kanno is a Ph.D. candidate in the Visual Studies Department. Her research interests include queer film criticism, feminist theory,discourses on the actress, and Japanese queer visual culture.
Ken Yoshida is in the Visual Studies Department. He is currently working on his dissertation, tentatively titled, “Forged Ecologies: Articulations of Natures and Technologies in the Japanese Avant-Garde.”

UC San Diego

Norman Bryson, Professor of Art History
Takashi Fujitani, Associate Professor of History
Shen Kui Yi, Associate Professor of Visual Arts
Masao Miyoshi, Emeritus Professor of Japanese, English, and Comparative Literature
Stefan Tanaka, Professor of History

Graduate Students:
Gabrielle Chang
William Huber

Board of Advisors

John Clark, Australian Research Council, Director, Austalian Centre for Asian Art and Archaeology
Christine Guth, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Michio Hayashi, Professor, Sophia University
Shigemi Inaga, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto
J Thomas Rimer, Professor Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh
Toshio Watanabe, Director, Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN), University of the Arts London

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