JOANNE RENATA BERNARDI Academic Appointments University of Rochester, Rochester NY Professor of Japanese and Film and Media Studies 2017-present Head, Japanese Program, Dept. of Modern Languages and Cultures 2015-present Associate Professor of Japanese and Film and Media Studies 2000-2017 Assistant Professor of Japanese and Film and Media Studies 1994-2000 Interdepartmental program faculty: Digital Media Studies Program Advisory Committee 2015-present Graduate Program in Photographic Preservation and 2014-present Collections Management Selznick Graduate Program in Film and Media Preservation 2004-present Film and Media Studies Program 1994-present Associate, Susan B. Anthony Inst. for Gender and Women's Studies 1994-present Affiliated Faculty, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies 1994-present Interim Director, Film and Media Studies Spring 2015 Academic Advisor, Selznick Graduate Program in Film and Media 2008-2010 Preservation Director, Film and Media Studies 2004-2007 Interim Director, Film and Media Studies 2001-2002 Harvard University, Edwin O. Reischauer Inst. of Japanese Studies Research Associate 1993-present Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 1993-1994 Wellesley College, Wellesley, M.A. Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese 1992-1993 Ibaraki University, Mito, Japan Associate Professor, Liberal Arts (tenured) 1990-1993 Assistant Professor, Liberal Arts 1987-1990 Education George Eastman Museum 2007-2008 L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation Certificate Program Columbia University (East Asian Languages and Cultures: Japanese Studies) Ph.D. 1992 “The Early Development of the Gendaigeki Screenplay: Kaeriyama Norimasa, Kurihara Tōmas, Tanizaki Jun’ichirō and the Pure Film Movement” (Donald Keene) M.A./M.Phil. Orals passed with Distinction “Ugetsu Monogatari: The Screenplay” (Paul Anderer) 1984 Waseda University, Tokyo (Doctoral Research Fellow affiliation) 1984-1985 School of Literature (Film Studies) The New School for Social Research; Columbia University (General Studies) 1978-1980 Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO Dec. 1977 B.F.A., Photography, Film and Video Studies Osaka University of Arts, Osaka, 1976-1977 Department of Visual Arts, Image Arts and Sciences 2 Alpha Delta Kappa Fine Arts Grant Recipient in Photography Fellowships & Grants External NEH Summer Institute Fellow July 2013 “American Material Culture: 19th Century New York” Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture Japan Foundation Short Term Research Grant 2003-2004 “Tourist Japan” (Tokyo and Kyoto, November-January) NEH Summer Institute Fellow June 2002 "Modernity, Early Modernity, Postmodernity in Japan" University of Southern California Japan Foundation Publication Grant 2000 Writing in Light (Wayne State University Press, March 2001) Susan B. Anthony Research Institute for Women’s Studies 1995 Research and Travel Grant (Japan) Association of Asian Studies Northeast Area Council 1995 Research and Travel Grant (Japan) American Council of Learned Societies 1994 International Conference Travel Grant, International Symposium on Tanizaki Jun’ichirō (Venice, March 1995) Harvard University, Edwin O. Reischauer Inst. of Japanese Studies 1993-1994 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Fulbright Doctoral Research Fellowship 1984-1986 Japan-United States Friendship Commission Social Science Research Council 1984-1985 Doctoral Research Fellowship Columbia University 1984-1985 Suntory Fellowship in Japanese Studies Alpha Delta Kappa Fine Arts Grant 1976-1977 Recipient in Photography Internal Rochester Center for Community Leadership (4 successive years) Spring 2015-2018 Community Engaged Learning Grant, “Film as Object” Community Engaged Learning Grant, “Tourist Japan” Researcher Mobility Travel Grant Aug. 2016 11th Film Preservation Workshop, Tokyo Interview, Prof. Yoneo Ota, Toy Film Museum, Kyoto Co-PI, University of Rochester Pilot Research Award ($21,442) 2014-2015 Re-Envisioning Japan as Destination in 20th Century Visual and Material Culture (with N. Dimmock) University of Rochester College Teaching, Learning, and Technology 2011-2012 Roundtable Faculty Grant ($2000) The Humanities Project-University of Rochester Co-PI, 15th International Domitor Conference and Graduate Workshop ($8,000) Spring 2018 PI, “Looking Like the Enemy: The WWII Japanese American Experience” ($450) Fall 2016 PI, “Film Lost and Found: The Experience of Pre- and Silent Cinema” ($17,780) Spring 2010 3 Participant, “Robin Hood: Media Creature” Fall 2009 Co-PI, “Global East Asia: Media, Popular Culture, and the Pacific Century” ($28,200) Spring 2009 Co-PI, “The Future of the Archive in the Digital Age” 2006-2007 Publications Digital Scholarship Re-Envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th Century Visual and Material Culture. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Digital Scholarship Lab, River Campus Libraries. First WordPress iteration (2013-2016): http://humanities.lib.rochester.edu/rej/. New Omeka site: http://rej.lib.rochester.edu/ (January 2017). My personal collection of ephemera that informs this project has been donated to the Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, where it will be rehoused and preserved as The Re-Envisioning Japan Research Collection. Books Writing in Light: The Silent Scenario and the Japanese Pure Film Movement. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2001. Recipient, Japan Foundation Publication Grant. Finalist, Theatre Library Association Book Award. Juzō Itami. Global Film Directors series, ed. Homer Pettey and Barton Palmer. Rutgers University Press [invited, in progress] Edited Books Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema, ed. Joanne Bernardi and Shota Ogawa. [invited, in progress] Edited book chapters, journal articles (refereed/invited) “The Toy Film Project and Toy Film Museum,” co-authored with Yoneo Ota, in the Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema, ed. Joanne Bernardi and Shota Ogawa. [in progress] “20th Century Monster,” in A Companion to Japanese Cinema, ed. David Desser, Wiley Blackwell. [invited, in progress] “Creative Curating: The Digital Archive as Argument” (with Nora Dimmock), in Making Things and Drawing Boundaries: Experiments in the Digital Humanities, ed. Jentery Sayers, 187-197. Special volume in the Debates in the Digital Humanities series, University of Minnesota Press. Forthcoming January 2018. (refereed) “Dare vita alla pagina: la collaborazione con Yoda Yoshikata,” in Bellezza e Tristezza: Il cinema di Mizoguchi Kenji, ed. Dario Tomasi. Milano: Editrice Il Castoro, 2009, 159-171. (invited) "Teaching Godzilla," in In Godzilla's Footsteps: Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage, ed. William M. Tsutsui and Michiko Ito. New York: Palgrave, 2006, 111-125. (refereed) “Osaka Elegy: Revisiting 1930s Mizoguchi,” in Film Analysis: A Norton Reader, ed. Jeffrey Geiger and R.L. Rutsky. New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2005, 260-281; 2nd ed., W.W. Norton & Co., 2013, 240-261. (invited) “Researching Japanese Silent Cinema/Japanese Cinema as an Academic Adventure,” in Asian Cinema–Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, ed. Myung-Kyu Park. Seoul: Korean Film Archive, 2002, 271-284. Proceedings, Asian Cinema--Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, FIAF (International Federation of Film Archives) 58th Congress, Seoul, April 22, 2002. (invited) “The Literary Link: Tanizaki and the Pure Film Movement,” in A Tanizaki Feast, ed. Adriana Boscaro and Anthony Chambers. University of Michigan: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies 24 (1998), 75-92. (invited) “Genre Distinctions in the Japanese Contemporary Drama Film,” in La nascita dei generi cinematografici/The Birth of Film Genres, ed. Leonardo Quaresima et al. Udine: Forum, 1999, 4 407-421. Proceedings, The Birth of Film Genres, V International Conference on Film Studies, Università degli Studi di Udine, March 26-28, 1998. (refereed) “Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s ‘The Present and Future of the Moving Pictures’,” in Currents in Japanese Culture: Translations and Transformations, ed. Amy Vladeck Heinrich. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997, 291-308. (invited) “Norimasa Kaeriyama and The Glory of Life,” Film History vol. 9 no. 4 (1997), 365-387. (invited) “The Pure Film Movement and the Contemporary Drama Genre in Japan,” in Film and the First World War, ed. Karel Dibbets and Bert Hogenkamp. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1995, 50-61. (selected proceedings) “The Suffering Heroine: Women in the Films of Mizoguchi Kenji, Naruse Mikio, and Ozu Yasujirō.” Ibaraki University Journal of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences no. 20 (1988), 105-120. “Catching a Film Audience Abroad,” Japan Quarterly vol. 32 no. 3 (July 1985), 290-295. (invited) “Bungaku-teki renkan—Tanizaki Jun’ichirō to jun’eigageki undō” (文学的連関—谷崎潤一郎 と純映 画劇運動, Tanizaki Jun’ichirõ and the Pure Film Movement) in Tanizaki Jun’ichirō–An International Symposium. Tokyo: Chūō Kōronsha, 1996, 90-114. (invited) Journalism “The 75th Anniversary of FDR’s Order to Intern Japanese-Americans Is Frighteningly Timely,” History News Network, Feb. 17, 2017. http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/165230. Conference and Book Reviews (commissioned) “Nitrate Did Wait: A Report on the First Nitrate Picture Show,” Journal of Film Preservation, no. 93 (October 2015), 47-50. Arthur Nolletti, Jr. The Cinema of Gosho Heinosuke: Laughter through Tears. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. Film Quarterly vol. 61 n. 3 (Spring 2008), 80-81. IV-V International Conferences on Film Studies, Università degli Studi di Udine, IRIS no. 26 (Autumn