Experience

Harvard University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Dissertation: The Imaginative Power of the Photograph: Ei-Q and the New Photography Movement

  • Sep 2015 - Present

  My dissertation project examines the impact of modernist photography on the Japanese avant-garde after 1930, with a focus on new forms of montage, drawing, and painting, as well as new theories of and approaches to art that were an influential force on the postwar generation. I focus on the work of the artist Ei-Q (1911-1960), whose career crossed generations of this pivotal moment. I trace out his work as a young critic in the heart of the New Photography Movement (Shinko Shashin Undo), his mature work as a photographic artist alongside Hasegawa Saburo and Yamada Koshun, and his guidance of the postwar artists' group Demokuraato. Show less

• Graduate Teaching Fellow

  • Aug 2015 - May 2017

  Attended lectures and held regular discussion sections with students. Responsible for designing lesson plans, exam review sessions, grading student work, and holding regular office hours and correspondence with students. Courses Taught:Aesthetics and Interpretation 36: Buddhism and Japanese CultureHistory of Art and Architecture 176E: Vision and JusticeCulture and Belief 30: A History of Photography