Education

2003 Ph.D. Sociology. Award date, April.

Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

Dissertation title: Representing Abjection in the Catastrophic Experience: Bearing Witness to the Past in Ourselves

1996 M.A. Cultural Studies, with distinction. University of Leeds, England.

Thesis title: Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salò: The 120 Days of Sodom: Representing the Holocaust

1994 B.A. Art History, honors in the major, honors in the senior seminar. University of California, Santa Cruz.

Publications

2007:

Ian Everard: Reconfiguring Mimesis, forthcoming artist monograph

“The Alpha and the Omega: The Work of Katsushige Nakahashi,” Camerawork vol. 34, no. 2 (Fall 2007): 7-14.

Editor of Shinichiro Osaki’s “Katsushige Nakahashi: Anti-Sculpture,” trans. Shoko Okuda, Camerawork vol. 34, no. 2 (Fall 2007): 15-20.

Interview with Katsushige Nakahashi, “The Depth of Memory: An Interview with Katsushige Nakahashi,” trans. Shoko Okuda, Camerawork vol. 34, no. 2 (Fall 2007): 21-27.

Representing the Catastrophic, (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2007).

2006:

“Katsushige Nakahashi: The Art of Taboo History,” for a forthcoming catalogue to be published with Nakahashi’s solo exhibition at the Shiga Museum

“Gojira vs. Godzilla: Allegories of Catastrophic Events,” in Ritual and Event, Mark Franko, ed. forthcoming publication with Routledge.

2005:

“Hideaki Anno’s Love and Pop: Enjo-kosai and the Shojo Economy,” in Masami Toku, ed. Shojo Manga: Girl Power! Girls’ Comics from Japan, exhibition catalogue, (Chico, CA: Flume Press at Chico State University, 2005): 32 – 35.

“What’s Real About It? Adolescent Female Sexuality in Thirteen,” American Sexuality magazine vol. 3, no. 4 (August 2005).

2004:

“The Scent of Positive Lives: (Re)Memorialising Our Loved Ones,” co-authored with Angela Kelly, in Qualitative Inquiry, vol. 10, no. 5 (October 2004): pp. 794 - 810.

2000:

“Usurping the Godzilla Allegory,” in Christian Everingham, ed. Proceedings of the 1999 Postgraduate Sociology Conference, Sydney: Macquarie University.

1999:

“Consuming Catastrophes: Pier Paolo Pasolini’s: The 120 Days of Sodom Locating an Autonomous Space” in Anita Lundberg, et al, eds, Proceedings of the 1998 Postgraduate Sociology Conference, Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, pp. 169 - 173.

1998:

“Dialogue with Julia Kristeva” Parallax, vol. 4, no. 3, (July 1998): p.15.

Reviews of Exhibition

Reconstructing Memories (Hawaii 2006)

Burl Burlingame, “An Incendiary State,” Star Bulletin (December 14, 2006), front page.

Burl Burlingame, “March of the Flaming Zero 12/13/2006” Star Bulletin Video Report (December 14, 2006)

“Zero” The Honolulu Advertiser Video Report (December 14, 2006)

Victoria Gail-White, "Photographic Memory: Gaye Chan takes life–and art– pixel by pixel," Honolulu Advertiser (Sunday, November 26, 2006)

Bruce Asato "Artist Burns Paper Warplane," Honolulu Advertiser (December 14, 2006)

Marcia Morse, "Reconstructing Memories at the UH Art Gallery," Artweek (March 2007, Volume 38, Issue 2)

Malia Leinau, "War and Remembrance photos of burning," Honolulu Weekly

Vol. 16, No. 5 (December 20-26, 2006)

Ashley de Coligny, "Reconstructing Memories UH-Manoa Exhibit explores How We Remember," Hawai‘i Herald Vol. 27, No. 22 (Friday, November 17, 2006)

Marie Carvalho, "Mind & Memory," The Honolulu Advertiser (Sunday, November 12, 2006)

Keiko Ohnuma, "Art Divines Wellsprings of Calamity," The Honolulu Star Bulletin (Sunday, November 26, 2006)

KHNL -8 News

December 13, 2006

Artist’s War Plane Burns to the Ground by Minna Sugimoto

KGMB -9 News

December 13, 2006

Zero Replica Burned in Symbolism by Julia Norton-Dennis

Sara Lipka, "The Arts & Academe," The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 15, 2006

Collapsing Histories: time, space and memory (Tokyo, 2004):

Noi Sawaragi, Senso to Banpaku [World Wars and World Fairs], (Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, 2005).

Takaaki Matsuoka, “Art Exhibition Faces the Core (Issues) of War, Genocide and Terrorism,” Nikkei, (August 8, 2004).

Reiko Suzuki, “Contemporary Art Exhibition by Fourteen Artists from Japan, the US and the UK,” Mainichi Shimbun, (July 30, 2004).

Wakato Onishi, “Contemporary Art at the Daigo Fukuryu Maru: Learning About War and History through Art,” Asahi Shimbun, (July 28, 2004).

Tom Baker, “Indirect Views of Harsh Reality,” The Daily Yomiuri, (July 29, 2004)

Bijutsu Techo vol. 56, no. 855 (October 2004): 172 and 177.

Creative Works

2007:

On the Day Project 7^th December / Battleship Missouri, Pearl Harbor documentation of Katsushige Nakahashi’s On the Day Project, Hawaii

2006:

Gojira vs. Godzilla: an experimental video detailing the historical conflict between American and Japanese interpretations of the monster Gojira. Presented at the University of Hawaii, in November 2006.

2004:

Untitled (Phantom Zero Project 12.11.2004), video documentation, the burning of Katsushige Nakahashi's Zero sculpture at Smith College, Northampton, MA

Untitled (Gallery éf 2004-1945), with Takashi Sakurai, video installation at Gallery éf, Tokyo

About Fallout, video installation at The Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall, Tokyo

2002:

Untitled (Walking Zero Project 3/16/02), video documentation of the burning of Katsushige Nakahashi's Zero sculpture following the Superflat exhibition, Seattle, WA

Presentations and Lectures

May 2007:

Presentation of “Isao Yukisada’s Go and the Korean Experience in Japan,” at the Stanford University Asian Film Festival (May 2007)

December 2006:

Presentation of The Importance of Story-Making at the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii

March 2006:

Presentation of “Kawaii Attack: Manga Aesthetics and Infantilism in Hideaki Anno’s Love and Pop,” at the annual Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Vancouver, Canada

February 2006:

Co-Chair/moderator of “Globalization and Contemporary Korean Cinema

February,” panel at the Korean Film Festival, Stanford University

February 2006:

Presentation of “Reconstructing Memories: An International Group Exhibition.” in the “Reinvented Memory: Contemporary Practices in Art,” panel at the annual College Art Association Conference, Boston

January 2006:

Presentation of “Reconstructing Memories: Katsushige Nakahashi’s Zero Project 12/13/2006 and The Niihau Incident,” at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii

March 2005:

Presentation of “Butoh and Cinema: Akira Kurosawa’s Drunken Angel and Eikoh Hosoe’s Navel and A-Bomb,” at the annual Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, London

March 2005:

Presentation of “The Historical Resonance of Place,” at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu

August 2004:

Lecture on “Kenji Yanobe, Gojira and the Daigo Fukuryu Maru” at the NO WAR annual exhibition, Saitama, Japan

July 2004:

Chair and presenter at the Collapsing Histories Opening Event at the Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall, Tokyo, Japan

November 2003:

Chair and presenter at the Collapsing Histories Artists' Panel at the University of California, Santa Cruz

October 2003:

Presentation of “Japanese Sexuality in Popular Visual Culture: Or, How the Japanese Preserve Historical Continuity” presented at the SFSU, BECA, Media Culture Seminar

October 2003

Chair and presenter at the Collapsing Histories Symposium University of California, Santa Cruz

October 2003

Presentation and screening of Barefoot Gen at the University of California, Santa Cruz

Honors and Awards

2007:

A grant provided by the National Endowment for the Arts for my exhibition The Depth of Memory at San Francisco Camerawork ($25,000.00)

Co-Sponsorship for The Depth of Memory by the Japan Society (San Francisco)

2006:

Grants to support Reconstructing Memories, at the University of Hawaii, Art Gallery:

· Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts

· Laila Art Fund

2004:

Sponsorship and other support for Collapsing Histories: time, space and memory in Tokyo:

· The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Palo Alto, California

· Artist Residency Tokyo (A.R.T.) Johnnie Walker, Tokyo, Japan

· Kodama Gallery, Tokyo/Osaka, Japan

· Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

· Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, University of California Santa Cruz

· Art Division, University of California Santa Cruz

· Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall, Tokyo, Japan

· Gallery ef, Tokyo, Japan

1998

Post-Graduate Research Grant sponsored through Macquarie University and the Division of Society, Culture, Media and Philosophy. $500.00AU

1997

Sociology Research Support Grant sponsored by the Sociology Department at Macquarie University. $500.00AU

1995/6

Tetley International Student Scholarship. University of Leeds, England. Award granted on the merit of Master's thesis proposal. £2,500.00 UK

Art History Department Award for an interactive exhibition concerning censorship in the arts. $500.00US

Employment

Spring 2008:

Assistant Professor, Cinema Department

San Francisco State University

Course title:

CINE401 National Cinema Japan

CINE722 Narrative and Independent Tradition

CINE726 Cinema Theory II

Fall 2007:

Assistant Professor, Cinema Department

San Francisco State University

Course title:

CINE102 Introduction to Contemporary Cinema

CINE340 Critical Studies

CINE724 Cinema Theory I

Summer 2007:

Assistant Professor, Cinema Department

San Francisco State University

Course title:

CINE200 Introduction to Cinema Studies

Spring 2007:

Assistant Professor, Cinema Department

San Francisco State University

Course title:

CINE200 Introduction to Cinema Studies

CINE344 Genre: Horror

CINE722 Narrative and the Independent Tradition

Fall 2006:

Assistant Professor, Cinema Department

San Francisco State University

Course title:

CINE325 Focus on Japan

CINE325 Focus on Horror

CINE325 Focus on Hitchcock

CINE340 Critical Studies

CINE724 Cinema Theory I (MFA)

Summer 2006:

Assistant Professor, Cinema Department

San Francisco State University

Course title:

CINE200 Introduction to Cinema Studies

Spring 2006:

Assistant Professor, Cinema Department

San Francisco State University

Course title:

CINE102 Introduction to Contemporary Cinema

CINE200 Introduction to Cinema Studies

CINE722 Narrative and Independent Tradition

CINE726 Cinema Theory II (MFA)

Fall 2005

Assistant Professor, Cinema Department

San Francisco State University

Course title:

CINE 340 Critical Studies

CINE 407 Art History and Film

CINE 502Avant-Garde Cinema

Summer 2005

Assistant Professor, Cinema Department

San Francisco State University

Course title:

CINE200 Introduction to Cinema Studies

Spring 2005

Assistant Professor, Cinema Department

San Francisco State University

Course titles:

CINE200 Introduction to Cinema Studies

CINE372 Film Theory

CINE726 Cinema Theory II (MFA)

Fall 2004

Assistant Professor, Cinema Department

San Francisco State University

Course titles:

CINE340 Critical Studies

CINE344 American Genre: Horror

CINE401 National Cinema Japan

Spring 2004

Assistant Professor, Cinema Department

San Francisco State University

Course titles:

CINE102 Introduction to Contemporary Cinema

CINE401 National Cinema Italy

CINE502 Avant-Garde Cinema

Fall 2003

Assistant Professor, Cinema Department

San Francisco State University

Course titles:

CINE325 Focus on Horror

CINE325 Focus on Film Noir

CINE325 Focus on Hitchcock

CINE200 Introduction to Cinema Studies

CINE401 National Cinema France

Winter and Spring Quarters 2003

Lecturer, Department of Art History

University of California, Santa Cruz

Course titles:

The Visual Culture of Catastrophe

The Ugly in Visual Culture

Contemporary Japanese Visual Culture

Curator, Fall 2003

Collapsing Histories: time, space and memory - an exhibition examining the catastrophic experience. Exhibited at the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, University of California Santa Cruz.

Fall Quarter 2002

Lecturer, Cowell College

University of California, Santa Cruz

Course title:

Cowell Core Course: Social Justice, Equality, and Freedom

Summer Quarter 2002

Lecturer, Department of Art History

University of California, Santa Cruz

Course titles:

The Visual Culture of Catastrophe

The Ugly in Visual Culture

Research Assistant for Professor Jennifer Gonzalez, the University of California Santa Cruz, Art History Department.

Winter Quarter 2002

Lecturer, Department of Art History

University of California Santa Cruz

Course title:

Art History 101: Junior Seminar in the Major

Summer Quarter 2001

Lecturer, Department of Art History

University of California, Santa Cruz

Course title:

The Visual Culture of Catastrophe

Research Assistant for Professor Bill Nichols, San Francisco State University, Cinema Department.

Research Assistant for Professor Catherine Soussloff, University of California Santa Cruz, History of Art and Visual Culture Department.

Consulting and Other Work:

2005 – 2006

Co-chair of the Media Culture Seminar – a regular interdisciplinary symposia, organized with Brent Malin in BECA.

2005 – to the present:

Member of the Board of Trustees for International Art Network – an international non-profit organization based in Japan.

2004 – to the present:

Guest curator and curatorial consultant for the Daigo Fukuryu Maru Foundation, Tokyo, Japan

Language consultant for Gallery éf, Tokyo, Japan

Memberships in a Professional Organization

The Society for Cinema Studies since 2000

The College Art Association since 2005

Curatorial Experience

2007-08

The Depth of Memory at San Francisco Camerawork (January 3 – March 22, 2008)

2006

Reconstructing Memories at the University of Hawai’i Art Gallery (October 27^th through December 13^th), Honolulu, Hawai’i.

2004

Collapsing Histories: time, space and memory at the Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall and Gallery éf (July 16 - August 16), Tokyo, Japan.

2003

Curator of the group exhibition, Collapsing Histories: time, space, and memory, at the Sesnon Gallery, (Fall Quarter) University of California Santa Cruz.

2002

Curator of the group exhibition, Collapsing Histories: time, space, and memory, at the Lisa Coscino Gallery (April 5 - May 4), Pacific Grove, California.

1999

Robin Kandel, Sensum, at Gallery éf (December 24, 1998 to January 9, 1999), Tokyo, Japan.

Ian Everard, A Compendium of Errors at the Mirage Gallery (January 8 - January 23), Tokyo, Japan

1998

Nikolaus Weisend, Assemblage, at the Mirage Gallery, (April 1 - April 14) Tokyo, Japan.