Visiting Assistant Professor, History
B.A. University of California, Santa Cruz; M.A. Columbia University; Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Appointed In
2025
Office
Swan Hall 216
Hours
Friday 11AM- 2PM and by appointment
Jack Wilson received his PhD in Japanese History from the Department of History at UCLA in March of 2025. His dissertation examines the relationship of poetics, philosophy, and politics through an in depth study of the postwar poetry group the Waste Land (Arechi). Research interests include modernism, critical theory, and psychoanalysis.
Publications:
“Nakagiri Masao and the Tragedy of Liberalism,” forthcoming.
“‘No One is Who they Say they Are’: The Political Aesthetics of David Peace, WasteLand Poetry, and Extreme Music,” Boundary2: An International Journal of Literature and Culture 51, no. 3 (2024): 89-112.