SHIMURA Shoko

Teaching Staff (Liberal Arts Core)

Title	Professor
Research Fields	Modern Japanese art history / History of U.S. – Japanese artistic exchange
Education	2004 Ph.D. (Literature), Waseda University 2000 Ph.D. (Art History – completed without degree), Waseda University 1994 M.A. (Literature [Art History]), Waseda University 1991 Bachelor’s (Letters, Arts and Sciences I [Art History]), Waseda University 1989 Study abroad, Université Lille 3 Charles-de-Gaulle: sciences humaines et sociales (Lille III), France
Selected Professional Experience	2013-Present Professor, Akita University of Art 2006-2013 Specially-Appointed Professor, Tokyo Zokei University 2002-2013 Adjunct Lecturer, Tokyo Keizai University
Selected Bibliography	2017 Kindai ni okeru Amerika de no Nihon bijutsu-ten [Modern exhibitions of Japanese art in the United States]. Journal of the Association for the Study of Modern Japanese Art History (26), pp.76-90 ‘The special loan exhibition of art treasures from Japan’ held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1936 and the essay on Japanese Art by Yukio Yashiro. Faculty Research Bulletin 2016, pp.17-26. Akita University of Art 2015 Shaman Ri to reisen-moto no Amerika ni okeru Nihon bijutsu juyo [Sherman Lee and the reception of Japanese art in Cold-War America]. Kajima Foundation for the Arts Annual Report (32), pp.341-347 2009 The concept of ‘art’ in Japan and international expositions of the Meiji period. Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration, Convergence (Jaynie Anderson, ed.). Miegunyah 1998 The relationship between sculpture and ‘kogei’ in Takamura Koun’s ‘Old Monkey’. Aesthetics, No. 8
Courses Taught	Art and Architecture of the Tohoku Region History of Japanese Art History of Modern Drawing and Painting Principles of Museology Museum Education Museum Collections (Graduate School of Transdisciplinary Arts) Transdisciplinary Arts Theory Applied Transdisciplinary Arts Theory C Transdisciplinary Arts Seminar Guided Research I, II (Master’s Course) Transdisciplinary Arts Research Methods Transdisciplinary Arts Research: Theory I, II Guided Research I, II, III (Doctoral Course)

Further details (in Japanese) can be found at the following link: SHIMURA Shoko (Japanese page)