{"id":1739,"date":"2018-09-05T14:51:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T18:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/asian\/?page_id=1739"},"modified":"2021-09-22T12:29:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T16:29:35","slug":"justine-wiesinger","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/asian-studies\/faculty\/japanese\/justine-wiesinger\/","title":{"rendered":"Justine Wiesinger"},"content":{"rendered":"
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*On sabbatical for 2025-26 academic year<\/strong><\/p>\n

Justine Wiesinger, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Japanese at Bates, and
\nearned her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and literatures by Yale University
\nin 2018. She teaches both Japanese language courses and courses on
\nJapanese culture, including literature, film, and theater.<\/p>\n

Wiesinger\u2019s research has been published in the Asian Theatre Journal. Her
\narticle for that publication, \u201cGlacier or Iceberg? Spatial, Temporal, and
\nContextual Distance in an International Performance of Time\u2019s Journey
\nThrough a Room\u201d was awarded the 2021 Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei Prize in
\nJapanese Theatre Scholarship.<\/p>\n

Wiesinger\u2019s dissertation examines intersections between disaster and
\nperformance in the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 as well as the
\nearthquake, tsunami, and nuclear accident of 2011. Her book
\nproject,\u00a0Performing Disaster, focuses on the theater and film that emerged
\nfrom the latter events (known as 3.11 for short), and analyzes the particular
\ncapabilities of performance to build claims to collective trauma in the
\naftermath of disaster.<\/p>\n

Justine Wiesinger is a Fulbright scholar, having conducted research for her
\ndissertation in 2015-2016 at Waseda University in Tokyo. She has presented
\nat major conferences around the world, including the AAS (Association for
\nAsian Studies) conference, the AJLS (Association for Japanese Literary
\nStudies) conference, the ATHE (Association for Theatre in Higher Education)
\nconference, the Tanaka Symposium on 3.11 at Oxford University, and the
\n\u201cLiterature after 3.11 Today\u201d conference at INALCO in Paris. She has been an
\ninvited speaker at Yale University, the University of Maryland, the University of
\nWashington, and Cornell University.<\/p>\n

Wiesinger\u2019s areas of expertise include disaster, performance, horror,
\ncontemporary Japanese theater, and modern Japanese culture. Wiesinger
\nalso has training in Second Language Acquisition Pedagogy, adopting a task-
\nbased approach to teaching language that emphasizes authentic materials,
\ninductive grammatical reasoning, and scaffolded activities that aim to center
\nstudents and prioritize active student speech and participation. She is
\nenthusiastic about sharing her passion for Japanese culture and language
\nwith students and enjoys participating in the close-knit community of
\nscholarship that makes Bates College so special.<\/p>\n

At Bates, Justine Wiesinger typically teaches Intermediate Japanese (JPN
\n201-202), Advanced Topics in Japanese (JPN 350), Japanese Horror Film
\n(ASJA 130), Japan on Screen (FYS 501), and Postwar Japanese Culture
\n(ASJA 215). Wiesinger shares in teaching Japanese Literature and Society
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